Twitter banned from White House?


	Twitter banned from White House?

disenchantedcitizen

7-26-2009 8:58 AM

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disenchantedcitizen says:

in this time of public demand for more transparency from our government leaders, this move would be a step back towards the dark ages.

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7-29-2009 3:44 AM

darkeforce

There's no information control with Twitter. Better to use web pages and blogs.

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