Cory Booker Among “Tweeting” Politicians

Newark Mayor Cory Booker and his San Francisco counterpart are blazing a new trail in political discourse from opposite sides of the country.
    
Both have built huge Internet followings on Twitter's fast-growing social network.
    
The young mayors have gained prominence by replacing heavily vetted, sterile political prose with personal missives on the stream of consciousness confessional.
    
The Twitter format, which limits messages to 140 characters, seems tailor made for the 40-year-old Booker and 41-year-old San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.
    
Among users carrying the "political" tag, the pair now have more followers on Twitter than all 435 voting members of the House of Representatives, 99 of 100 U.S. senators and 49 of the 50 state governors.