[net-gold] Twitter Use in the US Congress
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- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:06:48 -0500 (EST)
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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:14:22 -0700 (MST)
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Twitter Use in the US Congress
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Twitter Use in the US Congress
RT @mediamentor: Twitter use in the US Congress
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"After providing an overview and
background of Twitter, the report
analyzes patterns of Member use of
Twitter during August and September
2009. This report is inherently a
snapshot in time of a dynamic process.
As with any new technology, the number
of Members using Twitter and the
patterns of use may change rapidly in
short periods of time. Thus, the
conclusions drawn from this data can
not be easily generalized nor can
these results be used to predict future
behavior.
The data show that 205 Representatives
and Senators are registered with
Twitter (as of September 30, 2009)
and issued a total of 7,078 ?tweets?
during the data collection period of
August and September 2009. With
approximately 38% of House Members
and 39% of Senators registered with
Twitter, Members sent an average of
116 tweets per day collectively.
Members? use of Twitter can be divided
into eight categories: position
taking, policy, district or state
activities, official congressional
action, personal, media, campaign
activities, and other. The data suggest
that the most frequent type of tweets
were district or state tweets (24%),
followed by policy tweets (23%), media
tweets (14%), and position-taking
tweets (14%)."
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