Close to all the newly elected members of the House and Senate used some type of new media tool on their campaign pages and nearly half provided links to online blogs, according to a National Journal analysis. A little under half of the elected members also linked to YouTube videos, followed by Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, Twitter and Blip.tv sites. A spokesman for YouTube said the company did a lot of outreach to candidates early on. In September, the Senate Rules Committee adopted Internet usage regulation changes to allow a member, committee or office to separately maintain Web sites or post material on third-party platforms as long as they abide by set guidelines. The rules hold that approved third-party sites must agree to disclose when content is maintained by a Senate office and they are not allowed to show commercial or political material or links to an office-maintained page. Outside sites are also prohibited from using data-gathering tools on a Senate-maintained page and a senator's third-party hosted content must be removed at the end of his or her term. -- Winter Casey
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