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Follow U.S. House & Senate Floor Action on Twitter

By Abbie Bradfield Mulvihill

Thanks to Jim Milles for pointing out that you can now follow floor proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives and Roll Call votes of the U.S. Senate on Twitter. Who knew? Well, other than Jim, apparently the 164 Twitterers who are currently following SenateFloor and the 247 following HouseFloor. More people follow Jim than either of them!

I will check to see if these are being Twittered by the official offices and get back to you, but you can compare the House Twittered floor proceedings with the House Web site floor proceedings as well as the Senate Twittered Roll Call votes with the Senate Web site Roll Call votes.

If you don't "follow" on Twitter, you can still sign up for the feeds. Here they are:

SenateFloor: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/9855382.rss

HouseFloor: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/7402662.rss

Update (04/05/2008): As I suspected, these are not official Tweets. They are being scraped from the official Web sites. Of course, this probably wouldn't happen if the sites added RSS feeds (hint, hint).

Full post as published by AbsTracked on April 03, 2008 (boomark / email).