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Things his constituents might not know about Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) that they can learn from his Twitter feed: He's really not "stuffy." And he's sarcastic and he knows it.

Gosar, who won his seat in Congress in 2010 on a wave of Tea Party activism, uses Twitter for everything from letting staff vent about mice in the office to connecting with constituents back in the district.

Last month, when a constituent named Christina Smith struggled to secure Disability Application Status through the Social Security Administration, her cousin reached out! to Gosar through Twitter. "Low and behold she is a genius and it worked! He instructed her to tell me to call his office so they could work on it right away," Smith wrote on her blog.

The cousin, Karen Harper, later tweeted a thank you to Gosar, saying that Smith's application was approved.

Gosar talks about that Twitter success story and more in this week's "Follow Friday" profile for The Hill.

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