To help celebrate Twitters 6th birthday, the Edelman Digital team released an interesting report that evaluates effective use of Twitter by Members of the U.S. Congress: Capitol Tweets: Yeas and Nays of the Congressional Twitterverse The report analyzed Twitter data from 89 U.S. Senators and 367 U.S. Representatives across a 112-day …

And we thought this was the dumbest thing we’d read all day. “Forty percent of the female students at Georgetown Law reported to us that they struggled financially as a result of this policy (Georgetown student insurance not covering contraception), Fluke reported. It costs a female student $3,000 to have …

Edelman recently released the findings of our 2011 Capital Staffers Index which is our annual study that analyzes trends in communications and public affairs. [View full size] A new study by Edelman, the 2011 Capital Staffers Index, shows the meteoric rise in Twitter use and social media channels is shaping and …

According to the Christian Science Monitor: Republicans Rule Twitter Not to worry though, Democrats came in second. But more GOP than Democratic lawmakers use Twitter to communicate with constituents and the news media, according to a new Congressional Research Service study. Get your hands on the hot little report here.

Raise your hand if you saw this coming from a mile away … Researchers from the University of Maryland who plodded through more than 6,000 Twitter postings by members of Congress have found– surprise! — that politicians spend most of their time on Twitter promoting themselves.  [say it ain’t so] …