You may have noticed my new Twitter widget out to the right. After much fidgeting and playing I finally got the hang of Twitter and can see the usefulness in expanding the audience for this blog, as well as contributing to the overall political discourse. I encourage Alabama politicians who want to have more interaction with the online community and their constituents overall to check it out.

My Twitter feed can link you into other feeds you might be interested in by looking at my followers. I had a particularly salient experience with the technology yesterday and my friend, the mayor of Prattville, Jim Byard Jr. The mayor has just recently adopted the technology as well, but he is doing very well with it. Yesterday he got a robocall about the garbage tax increases in his city that was full of falsehoods, he was able to write about it on Twitter and direct people to the facts on the city’s website. I also saw US Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri answering questions from constituents in her Twitter feed yesterday (including one confirming that she herself does the writing and reads all the replies).

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