Justice Breyer Explains His Use Of Twitter: ‘I Actually Have A Tweeting Thing’

Oh, my. Perhaps it’s best not to know whether or not our Supreme Court justices are aware of–or actively engaged in–the use of social media, including, of course, “the Twitter.” Judging exclusively on a discussion captured on tape by C-SPAN, it’s a topic best left off the table, much in the same way you wouldn’t ask your grandmother for her impressions of the virtues of running a mobile meth lab a la Breaking Bad. “I actually have a tweeting thing,” begins Justice Stephen Breyer in the hearing on the Supreme Court’s budget (that got terribly off track). “I was very interested in this Iranian revolution, remember when they just had this uprising…I sat there fascinated, because you actually could look through the tweeting and you could see what was going on.”

“The only way you could do it was to go through the tweet, or the tweeter,” he explained. Justice Breyer says it’s flattering to be asked to be followed, and it’s the same with “the Facebook.”

Watch it here, from C-SPAN:

(h/t Breitbart)

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