Sarah Palin's Tweets: Lines staying open

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by Mark Silva

Old Alaska governors do not die.

They just Tweet away.

Sarah Palin, stepping down as governor of the Russian border state near the end of the month, plans to keep in touch with her followers with Twitter.

In a Tweet posted today, Palin indicates that, after she has left the office which she is forfeiting 18 months before her term's end, she plans to use the popular 140-character term-limited personal network to keep lines of communication open.

She's "no quitter.'' She's got Twitter.

However, we are inviting interpretations here in the Swamp of today's Tweet from the lame duck chief executive of Alaska:

"elected is replaceable; Ak WILL progress! + side benefits=10 dys til less politically correct twitters fly frm my fingertps outside State site."

The former mayor of Wasilla, who was visiting the coastal town of Unalakleet to sign bills today, could be looking at a 2012 bid for the White House. She has another Tweet today that seems fairly straightforward about her successor, Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, whom Palin says will have the "same positive pro-AK agenda it's all good."

The Tweet seems an appropriate medium for Palin, for this is the service that bills itself as a way "to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?'' -- a question which many have asked of Palin since she announced her resignation on the eve of fthe Fourth of July.

(The Associated Press contributed more than 140 characters.)

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