Twitter Marches on Washington; Adam Sharp Becomes First D.C. Employee

Twitter is invading the nation’s capital, hiring C-SPAN executive producer Adam Sharp, a former top staffer for Sen. Mary Landreiu (D-La.), to establish a presence in Washington, D.C., The Huffington Post reported.

Sharp told HuffPost he will not be lobbying on telecommunications-policy issues, describing his mandate as “working with members of Congress and the Executive Branch (to help) use Twitter as a vehicle for constituents,” and he added:

There are definitely several examples on both sides of the aisle of people who have taken tremendous advantage of the platform already.

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