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What's Next? #westwing Fan fiction on Twitter

A week or so ago I started following Josiah Bartlet on Twitter. Turned out he was already following me, as he likes to follow people who are tagging tweets #westwing. I don't get a lot of the references to contemporary American politics in his tweets, but there's the occasional reference to the show and a good attempt at some of the classical witticisms and bon mots of the "Former Fictional President, Nobel Prize Winner". 

But then I spotted something: Jed's talking to other West Wing characters, who in turn are having conversations with other characters. Josh & Donna (now Donna Moss-Lyman) are chatting about their kids and other domestic niceties, swapping baking tips with Leo's PA Margaret. CJ & Charlie are still engaged in an escalating battle of one-upmanship, which is currently focussed on their follower count. Meanwhile, Ron Butterfield, head of the POTUS security detail is obsessing about how to keep these Tweets secure (Ron's also a dab hand at hashtagging, probably those years of protocol).

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