Let Our Congress Tweet
July 14, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under Government & Politics, Social Networking
You’re probably aware by now that I’m a big fan of twitter. I’m also a big fan of government and elected officials listening to the people and connecting with them where they’re at in society.
I’m not under some dreamland of thinking all of the American people are on twitter or highly involved in any other social network, but I don’t think there should be laws or regulations limiting the contact of elected officials from communicating with the public through these methods.
The Let Our Congress Tweet website is hoping to change the way things are:
Congress should join us where we the people are talking, sharing and networking – online. As Congress reconsiders the restrictions placed on their Internet use, you can tell Congress to embrace the communication technologies that we already use.
Sounds pretty straight forward and helpful to me. What do you think?
I think it opens up the possibility of government working more like the Republic/Democracy it was setup to be in the first place.
Considering Congress can’t possibly waste any more time having internet access, and maybe they’ll even get things done faster so they can get back to check their myspace page, I think this is a great idea.
The issue is how to keep them from being swamped by 10 million @ replies every time they say something, not to mention from those outside their representative areas.
Good things to think about as the possible (and probable) impact of moving into these areas.