Why we twitter: understanding microblogging usage and communities
Proceedings of the 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD 2007 workshop on Web mining and social network analysis
Proceedings of the first workshop on Online social networks
Beyond Microblogging: Conversation and Collaboration via Twitter
HICSS '09 Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Micro-blogging as online word of mouth branding
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Twitter power: Tweets as electronic word of mouth
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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Twitter for city police department information sharing
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
How and why scholars cite on Twitter
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
The twitter mute button: a web filtering challenge
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Tweets and retweets: Twitter takes wing in government
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What's congress doing on twitter?
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
"I'd have to vote against you": issue campaigning via twitter
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work companion
More than words: Social networks' text mining for consumer brand sentiments
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Studying Chinese government microblogs: content and interactions
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
Politics, sharing and emotion in microblogs
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
Analyzing Social Media for Corporate Reputation Management: How Firms Can Improve Business Agility
International Journal of Business Intelligence Research
Social Science Computer Review
Tweet acts: how constituents lobby congress via Twitter
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
Analyzing Social Media for Corporate Reputation Management: How Firms Can Improve Business Agility
International Journal of Business Intelligence Research
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Twitter is a microblogging and social networking service with millions of members and growing at a tremendous rate. With the buzz surrounding the service have come claims of its ability to transform the way people interact and share information and calls for public figures to start using the service. In this study, we are interested in the type of content that legislators are posting to the service, particularly by members of the United States Congress. We read and analyzed the content of over 6,000 posts from all members of Congress using the site. Our analysis shows that Congresspeople are primarily using Twitter to disperse information, particularly links to news articles about themselves and to their blog posts, and to report on their daily activities. These tend not to provide new insights into government or the legislative process or to improve transparency; rather, they are vehicles for self-promotion. However, Twitter is also facilitating direct communication between Congresspeople and citizens, though this is a less popular activity. We report on our findings and analysis and discuss other uses of Twitter for legislators. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.