Twitter is blocked on White House computers

July 24, 2009 | Paul Boutin | Comments | |

gibbsThat’s an actual quote from White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs caught by LA Times writer Andrew Malcolm, who posted the C-SPAN video clip below. “For some reason, Twitter is blocked on White House computers, so … I have to say, I’m on camera enough that people have a decent sense of what I’m doing, minus Twittering,” Gibbs said.

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  • Gargamel
    Boutin,

    Your writing wreaks of week-old shellfish and you need glasses to see clearly!
  • Well I would respect that at the White House but if you are somewhere else, you can get around it by using futz.me

    http://www.futz.me