It’s time for a bit of self-promotion: “Danny Glover is the new editor of the Capitol Hill Tweet Watch Report.”
That’s the big announcement in today’s edition of the aforementioned daily newsletter, which tracks all things policy and politics on Twitter for the Beltway crowd.
My friend and new media maven David All launched Capitol Hill Tweet Watch Report last month, and I eagerly accepted his invitation to start the new year as its editor. Here’s a snippet from the blurb about my new gig:
The year 2009 marked the emergence of Twitter as a valuable news barometer on Capitol Hill, and with more lawmakers, congressional aides, policy experts and journalists embracing the medium, 2010 promises to be a milestone year in the Twitterverse. I’m thrilled to be starting the year as the new editor of Capitol Hill Tweet Watch Report to help chronicle the news for you.
Serving as your editor is a natural outgrowth of my tenure as the author of Beltway Blogroll for National Journal from mid-2005 to early 2008. Just as the blogosphere was an unfamiliar world in official Washington back then, Twitter is now. But Twitter will quickly become just as important and influential in policy and political circles this decade as the blogosphere did in the 2000s. I’m here to try to help you make sense of it all.
If you want to push a policy message, bolster a political brand, float a trial balloon or just comment on the news of the day, you should be doing it on Twitter. But even if you haven’t figured out just how to use the tool yet, you need to be aware of how others inside the Beltway are using it to accomplish their goals. That’s why Capitol Hill Tweet Watch Report is here.
While the publication is geared toward people inside the Beltway who don’t necessarily use Twitter themselves, it’s also a useful publication for anyone who wants to keep tabs on the policy and political news in the Twitterverse. If that includes you, please subscribe to the daily e-mail, follow @tweetwatch on Twitter, and spread the word about the publication.
