Twitter Twouble?

Enough with the heavy stuff, I say.

There's some trouble brewin' in Congress over ... wait for it ... Twitter.

Yep, that's right - the microblogging website that lets you update the world with your every move in 140 characters or less. Get this -- two Congressmen, John Culberson (R-TX) and Tim Ryan (D-OH) are frequent tweeters and my friend @Batterista has been interacting with them regularly through Twitter. A direct line of communication to our government representatives! What a breakthrough! What a fabulous way to leverage technology to close the ever-widening gap between the people and their government! Democracy at its best!

Except that the Democrats want to shut it down.

Check out the story at Batterista Blog and see how the Democrats are essentially trying to censor the online communication of government representatives, including posts to blogs, Twitter and YouTube.

I think it'd be great if all our reps were tweeters. It's way more interesting than C-SPAN. Only problem would be the implosion of the Twitter platform and the complete and utter domination of the Fail Whale (which, by the way, now has its own Wikipedia page).