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Obviously government employees shouldn't be using Twitter DMs for unofficial business, but they're more or less required to use Twitter for communications with
by chasing 6y ago
Obviously government employees shouldn't be using Twitter DMs for unofficial business, but they're more or less required to use Twitter for communications with the public and fundraising. If they don't, they hand way too much of an edge to their competitors. The issue is that we don't want Donald Trump to mysteriously tweet "We're nuking Toronto this afternoon! #MAGA" and have a national security episode trying to figure out if it's a hacker or if he just saw something on Fox News that irked him.
- sanderjd 6y agoThey would not be "required" to use Twitter to keep up with their competitors, if they were all required not to use it for official communications. I'm not saying that politicians should choose to stop using Twitter for official communications, I'm saying Congress should pass a law requiring they not. I think there are already laws on the books around appropriate changes for official communications that could be augmented for this purpose.