The White House Has a Ban on Twitter

by Scott Beale on July 25, 2009 · 2 comments

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs tells CSPAN that Twitter is blocked on White House computers.

via Los Angeles Times Top of The Ticket

UPDATE: Mediaite is reporting that The White House is not actually blocking Twitter.

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{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Todd Edelman July 25, 2009 at 5:46 pm

Obama does not like Twitter! What else is new!

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2 shamptonian July 25, 2009 at 9:31 pm

yeah, ok…but i wonder if tweetdeck or any myriad of other 3rd party apps are banned…

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