twitpic's cause problems everywhere

"Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende was not amused when he found out that foreign minister Maxime Verhagen posted a twitpic a week before directly from the cabinet meeting in the Trêvesroom.
[by way of Nu.nl/internet]
Balkenende said he “appreciated the minister of foreign affairs interest in trying out new media from many places in the world, but made it clear that “he is opposed to the politician’s act of sharing photos from the Trêvesroom.”
Later that day when he returned in his office at the foreign affairs department Verhagen twittered like a naughty boy: “but here i can ……”, posting this picture of his office.

I laughed out loud when I read this... I just couldn't help but think of an official being scolded like a 12 year old girl for putting pictures up on his twitter account that irritated someone. How interesting it is to see such a generation gap so exposed, on the one side you have a younger official who sees nothing wrong with displaying all of his life on the Internet and on the other you have a official who is completely unaware that this would even be considered permissible. How the times have and still are changing. I wonder what would happen if someone from our government posted picture from a meeting on twitter...