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Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) is “only now kind of getting more warmed up to Twitter,” according to her office. Her journey toward social media inspiration began in mid-October with her first-ever virtual townhall, a new but now fairly common practice by members of Congress in the digital age.

“All these new technological advances have offered new opportunities to communicate with constituents. Hundreds of people now follow my updates regularly because of the townhall I did on Twitter,” Shakowsky told The Hill.

“I believe that was the most she ever tweeted, but she truly enjoyed it," said Adjoa Adofo, Schakowsky’s press secretary. "I think her words right after were ‘Well, let’s do that again!’”

Schakowsky will occasionally write her own tweets for @janschakowsky, but usually she’ll tell a staff member to tweet f! or her, according to Adofo. Staff tweets keep constituents in the northern suburbs of Chicago up to date about what she’s saying on the Floor, in media appearances, or how she plans to vote on a certain issue.

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