In a Washington Post op-ed, Graffy (pictured here on a trip to Estonia) explains how she is using Twitter to advance U.S. public diplomacy:
Twitter is just one more tool through which we can connect, and by linking my messages to video and photos, I can inform whole new audiences about U.S. views and ideas in a format with which they feel comfortable. Twitter blends the personal with the professional:
When You look at Graffy's Twitter: it's basically mind-bullets from a harried senior State Department official. ("Back from the gym, off to the office"; "FYI: Bed, Bath and Beyond Coupons don't really ever expire"; "catching flight to Santa Barbara for Christmas--thx 4 your replies on article, will catch up when I land.")
Twitter can be a great tool: think here of the tweet-by-tweet accounts of the Mumbai terror attacks.
