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"With more than 2.5 million followers between @BarackObama and @WhiteHouse, Twitter is a big part of the Obama administration\u2019s social media presence.  So, it would be rather ironic if the microblogging service was blocked from White House computers.  But, that\u2019s exactly what Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said in an interview today with CSPAN.  \nSpecifically, Gibbs said that \u201Cfor some reason Twitter is blocked on White House computers \u2026 I\u2019m on camera enough that people have a decent sense of what I\u2019m doing minus Twittering.\u201D  Why the block?  Gibbs didn\u2019t say, but the answer would appear to be security, as a similar question was posed to an aide last month after a press briefing.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhile it's easy to understand that The White House is especially sensitive to security, they did find a way to let Obama keep his BlackBerry, so why not find a way to make Twitter work?\n[via Politico]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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