PostPartisan - Keep your tweets to yourself, Senator

For once, Sarah Palin is right. Her mysterious silence on Twitter has some commentators all aflutter. But it turns out that Americans don't need or expect our politicians to be tweeting at us 24/7. In fact, 7 out of 10 Americans aren't quite sure what Twitter is.

Since word spread that Twitter is the next big thing, politicians have been tweeting to beat the band. More than 20 new tweets from members of Congress, committees, and PACs have appeared since I started writing this. But a recent LinkedIn Research Network/Harris poll found that 69 percent of the general population doesn’t know enough about Twitter to have an opinion on it. A mere 12 percent thinks it was something that is likely to grow and expand into the mainstream -- the same percentage who believe it “is something that mostly young people and the media will use, but it will not move more into the mainstream.” And just 4 percent more than think it was already over...