When President Barack Obama was inaugurated, I wrote a post about the new presidential website titled, "WhiteHouse.gov takes a page from Twitter’s playbook." At the time, I thought the headline was a joke - because, ha ha, no one would expect nuanced policy discussion on the micro-blogging site with a 140-character limit - but it looks like I was actually peering into the Twitteriffic future.

On Friday, 20 "young business leaders" are headed to the White House to discuss the economic crisis. Among those leaders are investor and former Googler Chris Sacca and Twitter co-founder Evan Williams (insert obligatory joke about Twitter’s business model here), and both of them decided it would be a good idea to ask Twitter users for suggestions. Even using Twitter’s new front-and-center search feature, I haven’t been able to count the flood of the responses, but there are a lot - Williams alone seems to receive a new policy suggestion every few seconds.