The Obama White House has an active Twitter feed, with more than 763,000 followers. However, not all administration staffers have access to the service. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told C-Span this morning that “Twitter is blocked on White House computers”:
Gibbs made the admission on C-SPAN on Friday morning, saying that he does not personally tweet, either: “I have to say, I’m on camera enough that I think people have a decent sense of what I’m doing minus Twittering.”
During an interview on CSPAN, Gibbs quickly answers a question about Twitter by explaining that the micro-blogging service is blocked on White House PCs and that he himself is not on the service because he is in front of the camera often enough that people "have a decent sense" of what he is doing. This quickly prompted accusations from blogs, like Read Write Web that Gibbs clearly didn't understand the utility of Twitter. Others bemoaned the OBAMA administration's IT security policies as a "JOKE"
Gibbs made the admission on C-SPAN on Friday morning, saying that he does not personally tweet, either: “I have to say, I’m on camera enough that I think people have a decent sense of what I’m doing minus Twittering.”
During an interview on CSPAN, Gibbs quickly answers a question about Twitter by explaining that the micro-blogging service is blocked on White House PCs and that he himself is not on the service because he is in front of the camera often enough that people "have a decent sense" of what he is doing. This quickly prompted accusations from blogs, like Read Write Web that Gibbs clearly didn't understand the utility of Twitter. Others bemoaned the OBAMA administration's IT security policies as a "JOKE"
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