Group will study whether lawmakers are using Twitter less after Weiner scandal

TweetCongress, a website that tracks lawmakers Twitter accounts, will be studying whether members are tweeting less in the aftermath of the Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) tweeting scandal.

"We are going to use the week of the scandal tweet as our baseline and the following two weeks to see if frequency in tweeting has dropped off," said Chris McCroskey, a co-founder of the website. In the short term, he says he hasn't seen any change in tweeting patterns. "I haven't been able to detect a cooling affect." McCroskey said he would be interested in seeing how many lawmakers "shaved off people they followed" in the aftermath of the Weiner's confession, saying he wondered if staffers were going through lawmakers' lists of followers and unfollowing anyone who could be controversial.