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The Washington Times reports that Republicans members of Congress are quickly adopting new technologies to improve communication online, and now outnumber Democrats on Twitter:

Republicans finally get it -- and have jumped on Internet technology in hopes of dominating it in the same way they used talk radio in the early 1990s to build a following.

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Of the 219 congressional Republicans, 49 were using Twitter, while 27 of 317 Democrats were using it as of Monday, according to Tweet Congress (www.tweetcongress.org). The site tracks use of Twitter, a social messaging Web site that allows microblog text entries of 140 characters or less, known as tweets.

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