It’s impossible to say whether the drop in tweeting by lawmakers is attributable to Weiner’s problems, and last week did include the Memorial Day holiday.

Still, there was a significant drop in the number of tweets by lawmakers, who tweeted about 28 percent less the week of May 30 to June 3 than the previous week, according to a study by TweetCongress…

The week of the 30th, 2,104 Republicans and 843 Democrats tweeted, compared to the 2,868 Republicans and 1,182 Democrats who’d done so the previous week.