In House, Tweets Fly Over Web Plan

It began with a twitter from one of Capitol Hill’s best-known technophiles.

“I just learned the Dems are trying to censor Congressmen’s ability to use Twitter Qik YouTube Utterz etc–outrageous and I will fight them,” Representative John Culberson, Republican of Texas, wrote last Tuesday on his personal page on the online text-messaging site Twitter, where he posts a daily, rapid-fire log of his thoughts. Messages on Twitter are called tweets.

A few hours after he posted his first complaint (always 140 characters or less when twittering), Mr. Culberson logged back on: “Before I could post a Tweet I would have to get approval of the twits that run the House!” And an hour later: “The Dems will do this unless the Internet community stops them.”

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