The first question at a White House press briefing goes to a wire service reporter as a strict matter of seniority and custom. President Obama’s Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, hasn’t exactly disrupted that time-honored tradition but has begun fielding what he’s calling the “first question” on Twitter — aka #1q.

The very first “first question” Gibbs chose to field might as well have been asked by a member of the White House press corps (or as a