Congress on Twitter

More than a third of Congress appears to be on Twitter.

Let's send Ashton Kutcher to Congress. He couldn't make more of a mess of things, but at least there would be entertaining tweets.

Comments

[Matt]

Do you suspect that any of them do the "tweeting" themselves, as opposed to staff members doing it? My impression is that this sort of thing is often, maybe mostly, done by staff members. I'd guess it's probably also a bad idea politically to let people spew out whatever crazy idea came into their head, which also might favor having staff members do it in a controlled way.

[landismom]

The Congresscritters that I follow on Twitter are the. most. boring. tweeters. evah.

I'm starting a campaign tomorrow to get Wil Wheaton to run for Congress, based on this premise.

[Janice]

Neil Patrick Harris for the Senate, then. And I'd like to see Wil Wheaton in Congress, too, just like landismom, along with Nathan Fillion even if he is a Canadian!