good morning tweets!

if you find the title of this post somewhat baffling, you probably don’t have a twitter account. i’ve had one (now two) for about six months, and twitter is slowly but surely becoming the heartbeat of my online life. and if it hadn’t, the mumbai terror attack would have sealed the deal. where else can you learn about an event as it unfolds, without filters? unless you’re there, it’s impossible. twitter takes you there.

if you’re already into tweeting, you probably know about darren rouse’s new blog, twitip. darren already runs one of the best blogging resources on the net, problogger, so when he fell in love with twitter, twitip soon followed.

now you know i don’t usually blog about blogging (how self-referential can you get? it’s like writing a poem about poetry) but darren recently posted a top-ten must-follow twitlist, and invited his readers to do the same. i thought well, maybe i’ll write a top-ten political twitlist if nobody has done it yet. scrolling down the comments in that post (where most people left their lists), i quickly found a political list…but it was – horrors! — written by a conservative. (i mean, the wall street journal? are you kidding me?)

so here’s my must-follow list for liberally minded political tweeters, in no particular order:

@rachelmaddow
@wonkette
@nprpolitics
@glenngreewald
@crooksandliars
@dailykos
@instapundit
@cnnbrk(cnn breaking news)
@democracypress
@tpmmedia
@feministe

i would also recommend following @twitscoop for a quick way to find out if something big is going on in the twitterverse. alternatively, you can search tweet trends (twends?) directly at twitscoop.com - no twitter account required.

and of course you’ll want to follow @getangrywithme, whoever she may be…

seriously, check out the original article at twitip, there are a lot of interesting lists and suggestions there. the thing about twitter is that the more you use it, in terms of posting useful information and responding to questions from the group, the more benefits you’ll receive — such as having your questions answered and maybe getting some new readers at your blog (just don’t be annoying! people who post nothing but self-promotional tweets are soon unfollowed, and never recommended.)

thanks to darren and the twitip community for inspiring this morning’s post. frankly, the biggest political news on my mind today is the fact that scumbag saxby actually won the georgia runoff, which just blows chunks and is too fucking sad to write much about. big kudos to jim martin for giving that SOB a run for his money, though. next time, jim, for sure.

but i’m still smiling over the fact that, however briefly, this custom-made “impeach bush” ornament was hanging on the white house christmas tree. you really cannot make this stuff up!

impeachball

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