Barton later claimed an aide had posted that tweet, which magically disappeared from his Twitter profile shortly thereafter. But I gotta say I'm right there with him about Pelosi. She makes Cruella De Ville look like Paris Hilton.

When the Beltway Bandits adopt a technology, you know it's gone mainstream. Most of them are still trying to get their VCRs to stop flashing "12:00" over and over and over.

Case No. 2: , greeting the world with this cybertronic tweet:

I'm 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010.

Apparently that means "I'm feeling lucky" in binary speak. But some folks translated that into "." Why the search giant would need Twitter is beyond me, though the .