It's Official: Congress Is Full of Twits
Last night, while President Obama made his address to the joint session of Congress, some lawmakers in the room were apparently less interested in hearing his plans than in providing their Twitter followers with mundane streams of consciousness. As the Washington Post hilariously reports, Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) tweeted as Obama entered the chamber, "One doesn't want to sound snarky, but it is nice not to see Cheney up there." "Capt Sully is here -- awesome!" typed Representative John Culberson (R-Tex.), who also live-streamed his breathless walk to the House floor for the speech using his camera phone and Qik, a Marc Andreessen-backed startup.
25 February 2009•2 mins read
