How many Capitol Hill press flacks that despise Twitter, will forward Chris Cillizza’s latest column to their boss?

SUBJECT: Twitter is not your friend. No doubt any number of your colleagues have urged you to begin Twittering — sending your thoughts on life, the universe and everything out to the world in bite-sized, 140-character chunks.  [don’t tweet your career away]

We couldn’t agree more.

Don’t get us wrong, we love the fact that Claire McCaskill tweets in her pajamas, but inevitably, she’s going fire off what might be a career-ending tweet. It’s what happens when you react too quickly via a social network.

UPDATE: Recent proof that politicians shouldn’t tweet.  [anger]