Cory Booker’s prolific tweeting during last December’s epic snowstorm turned the Newark Mayor into a social-media superhero. And yes, those tweets are all his own. Booker recently was the keynote speaker at a breakfast sponsored by Opera Solutions, a global analytics company, in New York, where he talked about technology and its potential to improve government. NewsFeed sat down with the mayor to find out which celebrity convinced him to join Twitter, how he’s used technology to improve Newark and whether a presidential bid is in his future. (Vote for Cory Booker in our TIME 100 poll.)
In your remarks, you mentioned that Ashton Kutcher got you to join Twitter.
I’d give the full credit to Sarah Ross, who worked with Ashton at Katalyst Media. She said we needed to have more local voices talking, so she and Ashton both came at me and told me to jump into this technology. My staff had been on [my] Twitter like many other politicians, but it wasn’t until May 9, 2009 that I started tweeting myself.
People called you the #Snowpocalypse superhero last December after you used Twitter to help constituents in need. Were you surprised at the
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