Newark's Cory Booker Becoming Mayor of the Twitterverse

Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, N.J., has received national attention for his extensive Twitter usage in the wake of the blizzard that struck the East Coast this week, responding to several Tweets directly and sometimes actually shoveling snow or delivering needed supplies himself.

Adam Sharp, who became Twitter’s first Washington, D.C.-based employee in November, saluted Booker’s efforts in a post on the Twitter Blog:

It began with a simple “let me know” Tweet a few hours after Sunday’s blizzard dumped more than two feet of snow on New Jersey’s largest city.

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