What Exactly Does John Cornyn Do All Day? Well, for One Thing, He Tweets. A Lot.
In the time it takes you to read this story, Senator John Cornyn will probably have posted another tweet. Matt McClain/Getty Twitter launched in 2006, but didn’t really find its footing as a social media platform until March 2007, when it became the talk of that year’s South by Southwest festival. The site quickly transformed from a widely derided showcase for irrelevant narcissism in 140-character bits—an easy refrain at the time was that Twitter existed for users to tell the world what they had for lunch—to something more expressive, expansive, and often downright weird. (Eventually...