Apparently, Newt Gingrich isn’t so popular. According to an anonymous former member of his staff, Newt Gingrich paid for a large number of twitter followers. Essentially, Newt Gingrich isn’t really followed by over a million people. It’s not surprising that somebody finally was accused of artificially inflating their twitter followers.

It is probably true, also. Newt Gingrich has well over 15 times the amount of followers as fellow Republican nominees Mitt Romney and Michelle Bachman. It’s funny because Newt Gingrich has bragged about his twitter following on multiple occasions. On one such time he said, “I have six times as many Twitter followers as all the other candidates combined…”.

Sorry Newt, you really do not have that many followers. It is particularly sad that you have to make yourself seem better by buying fake twitter followers. I suppose that is just another reason why nobody ever really considered you a real candidate for the Republican Nomination.

Caution, this may be one of the craziest things you have heard about twitter. With Hugo Chavez staying in Cuba, he has been running the entire country of Venezuela by twitter. If you are not aware, Chavez is currently recovering from surgery to remove cancer. However, since he is not Venezuela, he has had to resort to alternate means to run the country.

He has constantly been updating his twitter to keep in contact with the members of his cabinet as well as regular citizens. With recent tweets he has approved a bill that gives $25 million dollars for a new trash-collect company, $51 million dollars for a new state government, and $37 million dollars to oversee a new public housing construction program.

While it may not be the best method to run a country, I applaud Chavez’s innovation. Perhaps our world would be a much better place if everybody was a little more creative.

It seems somebody from the White House has a wonderful sense of humor. In response to a critic of the Obama Administration, someone decided to exact revenge by rick rolling the critic. The critic had previously complained about the “entertainment value” of President Obama’s press conferences.

Personally, I have no problem with what the representative did. He or she could have easily responded with a nasty insult but decided to have fun using one of the Internets best pranks. I think it’s actually a little nice that the administration is trying to light up the mood right now, especially with the giant debt problem lingering.

While the reporter did bring up a valid point about the current administration, I can’t help but think he laughed over the response. It was completely harmless and was intended to be all in good fun. Regardless, it was still funny for the rest of us but I hope the white house can now focus on more pressing issues.

With the current debt ceiling problems lingering, the members of twitter have finally started showing their displeasure with those in Washington. Out all of the tweets in the last twenty-four hours, over ten percent include the hash tag #F***YouWashington.

While nothing will probably come of this chant, there is an underlying message that politicians need to hear. Americans are fed up and tired of the childish behavior of those in power. If a deal is not agreed to soon, then there will be a lot more frustration expressed on twitter.

Luckily, the power of twitter and other social networking sites is finally starting to be understood. Users of twitter can make or break someone’s reputation in an instant. While it is unlikely that twitter could cause a full fledged revolution, there is still a good possibility that twitter has some influence on the next presidential election.