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Bring Twitter, and leave the openness to them |
Lawmakers have decided the people of South Carolina cannot have enough transparency this year, so they have turned to the Twitter Internet networking service to further open the doors of government.Twitter users post short updates to their accounts, letting those “following” know what’s on their mind or what they are up to.A handful of S.C. pioneers have taken it a step further, pulling together all those updates in one place: SCTweets.com. (A “tweet” is Twitterese for an update). The site now has about two dozen elected officials and more than four dozen consultants, media, spouses and other politicos in its network.Readers of SCTweets can learn:• What state Rep. Nathan Ballentine, R-Richland, thinks of the current House bill up for debate
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