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Shutdown Diaries at WCP [get real] Watch out for that midday rush [hour] Wild Animal Rehab Center opens in DC [cute] First Caps game! [loss] Summer weather this [weekend] What Members are tweeting about [shutdown tweets] Photo by Kevin Wolf

We can’t talk for 21 hours – but we’ll try to take 21 shots this weekend Our party rocked; Click Clink; thank you to Microsoft, Resonate, The New Republic, Veronica, Marie, Stefanie, Kelly, Rebecca, Josh, Amos, Brian; We saw Lauren French, Ginger Gibson, Katie Harbath, Morgan Gress, Ashley Summers, Reid Wilson, …

And, by way of BuzzFeed style post because he gets the internet, Issa gives you 7 reasons to follow him on Twitter: If you’re not currently following Darrell on Twitter and you’re on the fence as to whether or not to do so, here are 7 reasons to go do so. 7. Because …

Apparently since her appearance at many of the WHCD after-parties in 2011 Sarah Palin has learned to hate fun. At least she introduced us to our new favorite word, “assclowns.” That #WHCD was pathetic. The rest of America is out there working our asses off while these DC assclowns throw …

We can get through this crisis together on Twitter and Facebook. And if you want to vent with some of our writers, follow them on Twitter too: Amos Snead, Co-founder – @AmosSnead Josh Shultz, Co-founder – @JoshShultz Morgan Gress, Editor – @MorganGress Ladies Who Lobby – @LadiesWhoLobby Brittany Horowitz – @BrittHorowitz Brian Johnson aka The Hungry Lobbyist – @HungryLobbyist Lia Seremetis – @HellaLia Marie …

As expected, Twitter and SMS traffic spiked last night following the re-election of President Obama. SAP tracked all of the Twitter traffic and identified the Top 5 celebrities with the largest Twitter following who tweeted positively about President Obama. It must be nice to reach 82,461,732 people with 5 Tweets. …

Meet Katie Harbath. Meet Mindy Finn. Katie is an Associate Manager at Facebook and Mindy works for Twitter. Two of social media’s leading ladies, Harbath and Finn have been proven industry experts for years. They’re also a couple of the nicest people you’ll meet in DC. Before their work at Facebook and Twitter, Katie and Mindy worked together at the RNC. Afterwards, they went their separate ways, each to head up digital operations for top presidential contenders. Katie worked for Mayor Rudy Giuliani while Mindy headed to Team Romney. Years later, they’re still on different teams, but have enormous respect for each other. With Facebook and Twitter at full-force this election cycle, we figured we’d reunite the two for a social media showdown.

Facebook’s Katie Harbath shows the GOP Whip some of their newest features. Afterwards McCarthy spoke with Adam Sharp of Twitter. The Facebook booth was right next to Twitter. No fights as of yet.

We couldn’t even tell you via tweet.

F the economy, bro.

The first billion is a helluva lot harder RT @Drake: The first million is the hardest. — T. Boone Pickens (@boonepickens) May 31, 2012

Barry was feeling good after his win last night. Southeast going HAM on Twitter!Let me hear YOU! — Marion S. Barry, Jr. (@marionbarryjr) April 4, 2012  

Ever unfollowed an over-tweeting co-worker/friend/family member/politician, only to have them call you on it because they track that sort of thing? If the answer is yes, now is the time to do it again. A spokesman for Twitter has admitted to the Telegraph that the service does indeed have a problem that causes …