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New Report Highlights House Republicans’ Domination of Twitter

New Report Highlights House Republicans’ Domination of Twitter

A report out last week, “Twongress: The Power of Twitter in Congress” found that, contrary to the narrative of the last few years, it’s the Republicans in the House of Representatives who are dominating Twitter.  The report found that:

More Republicans Use Twitter Than Democrats - In Congress, there are 132 members who are using Twitter actively: 89 Republicans and 43 Democrats. In the Senate, there is nearly an even split, with 14 Republicans using Twitter compared to 11 Democrats. But in the House, there are 75 Republicans using Twitter (42.13 percent of the Republican Caucus) and 32 Democrats (12.45 percent of the Democratic Caucus).

Twongress Chart
See more at republicanleader.house.gov
 

Asa Dotzler of Mozilla urges users to leave Google and switch to Bing

Amplifyd from weblogs.mozillazine.org
If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines — including Google — do retain this information for some time and it’s important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities.

That was Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, telling you exactly what he thinks about your privacy. There is no ambiguity, no “out of context” here. Watch the video.

And here’s how you can easily switch Firefox’s search from Google to Bing. (Yes, Bing does have a better privacy policy than Google.)

Read more at weblogs.mozillazine.org
 

Republicans live-tweet McChrystal/Eikenberry hearing

Amplifyd from thehill.com

The House Armed Services Commiittee Republicans used their Twitter account on Tuesday to live-tweet testimony from two top U.S. figures in Afghanistan.

During the hearing, Gen. McChrystal said that he did not request that the July 2011 withdrawal date be included in the plan. The president announced last Tuesday that he would send 30,000 additional troops to the war-torn country. He also said the troops would begin to draw down in 18 months.

#Afghanistan Hearing Update: @BuckMcKeon asks if Gen McChrystal recommended the 2011 timeline for withdrawal. He responded he did not.

Read more at thehill.com