Congress on Twitter

Not as exciting as Congress on drugs, but hey:

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For personal use, I wish there was a standalone widget like Twitterrific. I will have to individually follow those Congressweasels that I don’t already follow, so their tweets show up in my Twitterific feed.

UPDATE: going through the list of Congressweasels who tweet, following each. Looks like a standard distribution: some tweet a lot, most tweet a bit, some have tweeted hardly at all. For those on the left side of the distriction — hardly at all — assign some lowly staffmember to tweet at least twice a day!

Useless statistic: 24 of the 38 Congressweasels on the list are Republicans. That’s 63% — making the voice of conservatives on Twitter twice as numerous as the liberal’s.

(Hat tip: Andrew Roth at The Club for Growth and John Wonderlich at K Street Cafe.)

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