Gabbi Baker

As the temperatures rose in D.C. this week, the power of Twitter skyrocketed with Glee sightings, Rep. Weiner’s photos and the #alicebucketlist hashtag.

With jokes and jabs from President Obama and host Seth Meyers, The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner led to lots of laughs from correspondents and celebrities alike. Here are some of their top tweets.

The UN Foundation’s inaugural Global Entrepreneurs Council came together to discuss how to tackle the world’s most challenging problems.

Although disappointed by the cancellation of Bravo’s ‘The Real Housewives of D.C.,’ the real concern in the District this week is the looming government shutdown. Here are this week’s top tweets.

This week’s celebration of the fifth anniversary of the creation of Twitter solidified the profound effect it has on spreading news, sharing events, and creating #DCLeaders.

Twitter was full this week with widespread response to the disaster in Japan, leaving little room for tweets about warm weather, St. Patrick’s Day, or Charlie Sheen.

Cartoonist Nick Galifianakis explores the intricacies of relationships in his new book and shares some of the details with Washington Life.

With some of our top tweeters headed to Austin this week for SXSW, we saw fewer tweets from the newly named “#1 Most Socially Networked City.” Here are our picks for top tweets this week.