Am I wrong in distinctly recalling that

[PCIntern]

when Twitter began, it was almost exclusively the province of conservatives? I recall I believe, a State of the Union wherein the cameras showed all these Congresspeople on their phones and the announcer/commentator said that the Republicans were using this new communication application called Twitter, and that there were limited characters allowed and thus it was perfect for the catch-phrases and short statements that Republicans are famous for.

I recall distinctly being angry that there was this gimmick that the opposition was taking advantage of and the we were once again behind the eight-ball.

[Hekate]

1. I only remember Doonesbury's take on it. FOX reporter Roland Hedly was ordered to use it a lot...

We had a lot of panels of Roland tweeting every part of his day.

I’m so bad — I really rely on Doonesbury to stay current.

[John1956PA]

2. I remember Conan O'Brien lampooning the insipid content of most tweets

On his late-night show, he was fighting off a blue cartoon Twitter bird which was annoying him with pointless tweets.