Jason Chaffetz Isn’t So Tech Savvy
By Saintless. Filed in Blogging, politics |
Jason Chaffetz has gotten a lot of attention for his use of Twitter since being elected as Congressman for Utah’s 3rd District. I’ve followed him for a while now, and we have had some interesting mini-conversations. I must have offended him recently, because I found out this morning that he unfollowed and blocked me!
If I’m logged into Twitter and go to his page, this is what I see:
I'm only giving updates to friends.
If I log out, I get this:
Full status updates
So, he’s blocked me, but hasn’t actually set his status to private. So, if I really want to, I can still see his updates. Not that it’s important enough to me that I’m going to bother, but I do find it childish that a public official would act this way. He’s making public statements via Twitter, but he doesn’t want me to see them.
I guess I accused him of bitching about things without providing a solution one too many times.
Monday, April 6th 2009 at 9:29 am |
What an utter turd – if he is going to use his Twitter as a means of communicating with constituents, he had better keep it public and expect the criticism associated with that.
Monday, April 6th 2009 at 9:47 am |
Some people are Twitterers and some are just twits.
Monday, April 6th 2009 at 10:49 am |
Another example of Republicans not understanding what all of these tools for engaging voters are really about. To them, it’s just another messaging tool. They don’t want to have a real conversation about anything substantial.
Monday, April 6th 2009 at 11:26 am |
This is too good. I think you nailed it with the, “I do find it childish that a public official would act this way.” If he can’t stand up to the fierce fury of tweets, then what about the criticism that is surely to come his way during his first (only?) term….
Monday, April 6th 2009 at 4:13 pm |
Why use twitter if you cannot handle Public comments and criticism!!! What a jerk! It just shows that this public official cannot handle the twits that will come his way !!!!
Tuesday, May 12th 2009 at 11:28 am |
I wrote some critique on his YouTube “Cot-Side” chats and then he decided to disable comments for all his videos. I’ve taken him to task over it a couple of times in my own video blog and have also called him out via Twitter. He hasn’t blocked me but he IS ignoring me. The coward!