Join deseretnews.com in a 'twittologue' with Rep. Jason Chaffetz

Do you have a question to ask Utah's newest member of Congress, Jason Chaffetz? Is the health-care reform debate making you sick? How about the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq? How should President Obama deal with foreign leaders?

Here's your chance. On Dec. 2 at 4 p.m., deseretnews.com and Chaffetz will conduct an hour-long live interview — an electronic town hall meeting — using the social networking site twitter.com. Twitter followers of the Deseret News or of Chaffetz may join in the conversation using the hashtag #dnews at the end of their tweets. All questions will be selected and moderated by Deseret News editorial page editor Jay Evensen.

Twitter users will be able to follow the discussion using Twitter search. A transcript of this "twittologue" also will be available.

Get ready for this "twittologue" by following Deseret News and Jason Chaffetz on Twitter.

If you are not already on Twitter, you can sign up in five easy steps:

1. Go to twitter.com and click on the big green button that says "Sign up now."

2. Enter your full name, select a unique username and password, enter your email and click on "Create my account."

3. Choose which friends you want to follow by using your email, or click "Skip this step" at the bottom of the page.

4. Twitter will suggest friends to follow. Select the ones you want to follow and click "Finish," or click "Skip this step."

5. Now that you have an account on Twitter, follow Deseret News and Jason Chaffetz on Twitter by going to twitter.com/deseretnews and twitter.com/jasoninthehouse then clicking the "Follow" button under both profile icons.

Make sure you are following both profiles and the hashtag #dnews so you don't miss any 'tweets.'

For more information about Twitter, we recommend this video from howcast.com, which covers all of the Twitter basics.