This Twitter account alerts you whenever Congress edits Wikipedia

There’s now a real-time record of Wikipedia edits made by US lawmakers. Congress-edits (@congressedits), a Twitter account started earlier this week, is positioning itself as a sort of digital watchdog. Ed Summers, a DC-area computer programmer, set up the project. It works by monitoring edits coming from IP addresses known to belong to Congress, then posting tweets identifying those edits. While this not a completely new idea, this seems to be the first attempt to automate the process of revealing these edits. “There is an incredible yearning in this country and around the world for using technology to provide more transparency about our democracies,” Summers wrote in a blog post about @congressedits.