White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer admitted to Brian Stelter of The New York Times that the deluge of tweets directed toward lawmakers, encouraged last Friday by President Barack Obama, were a factor in the agreement between congressional Democrats and Republicans on the debt ceiling, announced Sunday night.
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How do you solve a crisis like the federal budget? With a tweet, of course, hoped House Democrats who hosted a Twitter town hall meeting on Thursday to field questions about the budget. And exactly what happens when Members of Congress try to solve a national crisis in 140 characters or less?
The results are in, and Republicans like to keep it brief. 140 characters or less, as a matter of fact.
So brief that Republicans now dominate the Twitter universe, far outpacing their Democratic counterparts when it comes to spreading their message on the social networking tool, according to a new report released yesterday by public relations firm Burson-Marsteller.
