What are the White House & Congress doing?

Thanks to the (almost) Bald Trainer blog for discovering that the White House, House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate are all using Twitter. This afternoon, I've received updated on what is happening on the House floor and the votes that are being taken. The last tweets from the Senate were last week on votes they were taking. What is interesting about the votes is that they come with a link to a page that shows how everyone voted! And the White House tweeted yesterday about a speech the President gave.

How do they do this? Turns out you can send an RSS feed to Twitter, which then people can follow (the Twitter term for "sign up for").

Besides following the government, I'm also getting news updates and a few blog RSS feeds. While this does duplicate what I can receive elsewhere, I'm using a FireFox add-on called TwitterFox that gives me a collapsible window in the lower right corner of the screen where the tweets appear. This has turned out to be very handy. Someone has constructed a wiki on Twitter that contains a list of informational feeds that are available. The variety is pretty amazing.

mmm...I wonder if "W" knows he's Twittering?

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