Congress All ATwitter

Once upon a time, in a less enlightened era, Congress was apparently unable to use Twitter. Thankfully, for people like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd, an online campaign convinced Congress to modernize its rules and allow representatives to speak to their constituents on the popular social network.

You can check out a record of the movement, apparently a brainchild of Texas Republican John Culberson, at letourcongresstweet.org.

Of course, now that the presidential campaign is over, federal tweets are a bit more rare to come across. Though the rules preventing Twitter use were intended to prevent elected officials from using the platform to campaign, it appears as though that's all Twitter was being used for. Unsurprisingly, Obama has the most recent tweet, having thanked his supporters on Nov. 5, but most of the other accounts I've sampled has fallen out of use. Hillary: Oct. 30. Biden: Aug. 13. Dodd: Jan. 3.

Other congressional Twitters are listed here. For the record, 14 Democrats and 25 Republicans.