Booker, who has $30 to spend on groceries for the week, is sharing his experience on Twitter using #SNAPCHALLENGE. This morning, he expressed thanks to those both spreading the word about the challenge and joining in -- along with his first grocery receipt:
Thanks for sharing this & joining #SNAPChallenge RT @jpmoh: here we go! twitter.com/jpmoh/status/2… — Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) December 4, 2012
My #SNAPchallenge food for the week@ City of Newark instagr.am/p/S1QE4cPUUm/ — Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) December 4, 2012
Guidelines for the challenge have even been established, as shown by another tweet by Booker this morning:
Watch this quick video to learn the #SNAPchallenge guidelines wayw.re/YyHTSv — Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) December 4, 2012
With more than 1 million Twitter followers, Booker is no stranger to Twitter fame. On New Year's Eve 2010, the mayor responded to a tweet from a 65-year-old man who needed his driveway cleared -- Booker volunteered to shovel the snow. Booker told Government Technology that social media sites like Twitter are changing politics. “It changes conversations from private to social,” he said. “If you don’t build up the tool, you really surrender to the space or come off as very robotic. It’s about creating authentic, dynamic feeds.”
Photo via Twitter/@CoryBooker