California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger visited ‘Twitter’ HQ in San Francisco today to praise the internet sensation for allowing him to keep up to date with what voters are thinking. Arnie met with the site’s co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams.

“Social networking, I think, is something you have brought to the ultimate level,” Arnie told Stone and Williams. “It is brilliant what you came up with, staggering.”

Schwarzenegger, whose office is well-wired into Internet technologies, described Twitter as an effective way for politicians to get real-time feedback from voters.

“You always try to reach out and touch the people; you need to know always what they are feeling and it changes so quickly,” the governator said. “We see it with health care reform.”

Talk inevitably touched on exercise, with Stone telling the bodybuilder-turned-actor-turned-governor that Twitter workers are more into running than weightlifting.

“Now I realize we need a weight room,” Stone noted after Schwarzenegger commented that workout centers have flourished in the aftermath of his days as Mr. Universe.

Schwarzenegger said he has turned to Twitter users for ideas about how to fix California’s daunting budget deficit. Suggestions he is using include having a “garage sale” to raise money from bicycles, cars and other property the state doesn’t need.

Stone took to Twitter for questions to ask Schwarzenegger, coming up with “Why can’t other states have a governor this awesome.”
“That’s why I’m the one and only,” Schwarzenegger quickly retorted.

I’m surprised Arnie is a fan. I would have thought he would have had enough of computers trying to take over the world!