Hill Tweet News (March 2, 2009)
March 2, 2009, 10:23pm
AirCongress today began tracking the best “tweets” that members of Congress post to Twitter, a mini-blog service that limits posts to 140 characters. Some of the AirCongress posts will be word-for-word “retweets” of what the lawmakers wrote (the abbreviation for a retweet is RT); others will summarize the content of one or more tweets on the same subject.
This new feature is called “Hill Tweet News,” or HTN for short.
As part of the service, each day at AirCongress.com I will post a sample of the latest tweets from @AirCongress and a button so readers can subscribe to @AirCongress in order to access the full version of HTN via Twitter.
Here are the samples from today’s first edition of the new weekday feature:
@askgeorge is dining with Obama on Wednesday and soliciting questions. Topics — economy, health care, education.
RT @TomCoburn Was just shut out from offering amendments on the Floor to the omnibus.
RT No. 1 pork project for today is $951,500 for Sustainable Las Vegas. See @SenJohnMcCain for the other nine.
Click the button below to subscribe to “Hill Tweet News” and get access to the other news and information available through @AirCongress, including links to the YouTube channels for members of Congress.
It’s free for the first week, and after that, the introductory rate is only $3 a month. But subscribe now before the fee increases!
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April 26th, 2009 at 11:51 am
[…] Twitter Search is necessary but not sufficient for presenting the full scope of discussion for readers arriving after the live event. Better tools for organizing and displaying these conversations on blogs are needed, and I wouldn’t be surprised if this is where the Twitter API is headed next. Already there are editorial services like McMorris-Santoro’s Word on the Tweet and Danny Glover’s Hill Tweet News. Another interesting question is whether 140-character tweets are too short for mostly algorithm-driven aggregators like Gabe Rivera’s Memeorandum (and Techmeme). Hashtags combined with Slashdot-style meta moderation may be key to making such a service realistically work. […]