www.PoliticsTweet.com

  • Politician oriented Twitter aggregator developed and launched by 3 CLiCk Media. www.PoliticsTweet.com has been featured in the New York Times and features tweets by over 240 politicians (and one comedian, just for fun!)

    pt 300x245 www.PoliticsTweet.com“Everyday you hear about political information being tweeted by influential politicians…and now you can find them all in one place. We did all the work for you! All the most tweet-worthy politicians from Twitter are here! It’s all right here on Politics Tweet!”

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    Taming Twitter’s Streams With Automated Web Sites

    By PAUL BOUTIN  – New York Times
    Published: February 10, 2010

    POLITICIANS’ POSTS “Everyone should follow the people who represent them,” the political pundit Ana Marie Cox said in an interview. Twitter, Ms. Cox says, is a more efficient way than the mass media or a Web site for public servants to let constituents know what they are working on or where they stand. Assuming you know who your elected officials are, the Google search trick will find their accounts.

    But prepare to be disappointed.

    Unlike Hollywood stars, most politicians let their interns do their posting for them. President Obama’s account — @barackobama — during the 2008 election campaign was written by staff members of the Democratic National Committee, according to a White House spokesman. The committee’s Organizing for America project now manages the account.

    ptlogo new 300x99 www.PoliticsTweet.comEven comic-turned-Senator Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, does not write his own messages. As a result, politics on Twitter can be informative, but not necessarily inspiring. The site Politics Tweet follows more than 200 American politicians, just as CelebrityTweet tracks movie stars. But the posted messages consist largely of dull check-ins from events, and links to non-Twitter content on politicians’ Web sites.

    For a while last year, it seemed things might turn around when Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, typed some angry Twitter messages aimed at Mr. Obama, the former junior senator from Illinois. His best-known status update: “When you are a ‘hammer’ u think evrything is NAIL I’m no NAIL.”

    Alas, Mr. Grassley seems to have learned to control his Twitter temper. A recent message: “45 people at town meet in Traer. Obviously small turnout bc it started 7am.”
    Read the FULL Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/technology/personaltech/11basics.html


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