White House Clears up Twitter Mystery

His statement left the press corps wondering who was updating the president’s Twitter feed. The official White House Twitter account showed a number of updates during business hours, both from the Web and via the Twitter platform HootSuite, with entries such as “Streaming any minute: Obama Proclamation on the 19th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.”

This week, White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton finally answered these burning questions. He told Mediaite’s Rachel Sklar that the president’s new media team, including director of new media Macon Phillips and online programs director Jesse Lee, were the ones updating the White House Twitter feed.

(...) White House staffers are not banned from having personal Twitter accounts, he said. For his part, Mr. Burton has a Twitter account that he follows on his BlackBerry, “but I don’t actually Twitter myself,” he said. “It’s more to see what Diddy and Perez Hilton are up to all day.”