Help Wanted: Twitter Seeks Tweeter to Help Company Cozy Up to the Government

By Doug Powers  •  June 8, 2010 02:26 PM

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers

Twitter is looking to hire their first DC-based employee to act as a liason between Twitter and the government and political organizations.

Since this ad is way over 140 characters in length, it looks as if they’ve already sold out to the government:

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How would entrepreneurial or trail-blazing experience help you deal with the government? Seems like that would be more of a hinderance.

Nancy Pelosi starts using Twitter mere days ago, and now this? I’m getting the feeling that taxpayers are hiring Nancy a Twitter assistant.

The broader implications of Twitter climbing into bed with the government may mean, if anything, that the revolution will not be Tweeted.

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers

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  1. #1
    On June 8th, 2010 at 2:28 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Tweet this! (grabs nethers)

  2. #2
    On June 8th, 2010 at 2:28 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Sorry.

  3. #3
    On June 8th, 2010 at 2:29 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    I had a Blutarski moment there.

  4. #4
    On June 8th, 2010 at 2:39 pm, letget said:

    Oh goodie, another government employee, at a salary of $80,000 per year, at taxpayers expense?
    L

  5. #5
    On June 8th, 2010 at 2:42 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    This must be part of the “Underverse” we’re experiencing.

  6. #6
    On June 8th, 2010 at 2:42 pm, JohnnyD said:

    I could be enticed to take the job…but I might just go Rogue(Chedder) on someone.

    Good stuff Rogue and always in less than 140 characters.

  7. #7
    On June 8th, 2010 at 2:45 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    “140 characters”?
    White House staff?

  8. #8
    On June 8th, 2010 at 2:57 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Ya, I lay awake at night wondering who I want to follow next on Twitter. /sarc

  9. #9
    On June 8th, 2010 at 3:45 pm, Hangfire said:

    S U R P R I S E ! ! ! !

  10. #10
    On June 8th, 2010 at 4:30 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    “140 characters”?
    White House staff?

    Yeah! Since when have you known a politician willingly limit their speaking? I’m surprised that gov’t tweets don’t just end, like the tweeter fell off a cliff.

  11. #11
    On June 8th, 2010 at 7:07 pm, Little Ma said:

    Someone told me this afternoon that Twitter got hacked.

  12. #12
    On June 8th, 2010 at 8:05 pm, plymouthacclaim said:

    Maybe it’s harmless…
    I just don’t see how this can be good for Twitter to get in bed with the govt.

    I’ve been tweeting politics for some time now. (Yes, Doug, I do follow you.) Twitter has been great in spreading info that official channels have ignored.

    http://andilinks.blogspot.com/ (@andilinks) asserts that political censorship may already be taking place on Twitter.

    For quite some time, months, my tweets have not appeared in Twitter Search. Additionally it has seemed that at some time my tweets began to get far too few responses for the number of followers that are recorded for my account. I would occasionally meet other users with similar experiences. Since most of my tweets are of a conservative nature I began to worry that the Twitter management being mostly liberal had begun censoring users that were more effective. Certainly there have been many stories that Google scrubs its archive and cache of items damaging to the Obama Administration and so it is entirely plausible that Twitter may also do the same.

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