You can march your Twitter avatar and the avatars of the people you follow in Twitter a parade at isparade.jp. You can also make a parade out of a keyword. May it never rain on your Twitter parade.
The Telegraphreports that Twitter is seeking a Government Liaison. The new hire will be Twitter's first D.C.-based employee. The new hire will also get to work with important political peeps. You can see the job listing here.
Twitter is looking for an experienced, entreprenurial person to make Twitter better for policymakers, political organizations and government officials and agencies. You'll be our first D.C. -based employee and the closest point of contact with a variety of important people and organizations looking to get the most out of Twitter on both strategic and highly tactical levels. You'll help Twitter understand what we can do to better serve candidates and policymakers across party and geographical lines. You'll support policymakers use of Twitter to help them communicate and interact with their constituents and the world. You'll work with nearly every group at the company and at every level to pursue your vision for how Twitter ought to be. You'll help set the culture and approach of a fledgling public policy department and be an important part of our very small company.
If you are successful, the world will be a better place because policymakers will have closer connections with their constituents and will be sharing more information with them.
They will likely get a lot of resumes for this position. The demand is great enough that Twitter probably needs more than just one person dealing with local and international governments.
The Australianreports that Twitter has reached its 15 billionth tweet just three months after hitting its 10 billionth. Twitter also revealed that 300,000 new accounts are being added daily on Twitter.
For the first time since the site launched in March 2006, Twitter released its numbers, with 105 million registered users and 300,000 new accounts being added on average each day.
The Australian also calls Twitter an "online blog site," which sounds a little redundant to us.
Twitter recently announced some of its ad plans, including something called Promoted Tweets. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says he thinks people are "going to really love them." Publishers and services are lucky if ads are barely tolerated by users. Having users actually love ads seems unlikely, but it will be interesting to watch how the advertising on Twitter develops. Take a look:
The Library of Congress (LOC) will be archiving all of your tweets. The Library of Congress has acquired Twitter's archives and every public tweet since Twitter's inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress. The LOC will also archive all future tweets. There will be a six month delay before tweets enter the archive.
In a blog post on the LOC blog, the LOC is described to be much more than books.
So if you think the Library of Congress is “just books,” think of this: The Library has been collecting materials from the web since it began harvesting congressional and presidential campaign websites in 2000. Today we hold more than 167 terabytes of web-based information, including legal blogs, websites of candidates for national office, and websites of Members of Congress.
Twitter is primarily a tool for what is happening right now but there are some tweets that could have historical relevance. An archive will also be useful because you can not go back very far right now with Twitter's current search engine. It is unclear what will happen to tweets that are deleted after they have been archived, but it seems likely that once a tweet enters the LOC archive it is there for good.
Justin Bieber Likely to Pass Barack Obama as Most Listed Twitterer
Tween hearthrob Justin Bieber is likely to soon pass President Barack Obama as the Most Listed Twitterer. You can see a list of the Most Listed Twitter accounts here.
Last month, Barack Obama was listed on 44,117 lists and Justin Bieber was listed on 29,930 lists.
This month, Barack Obama is listed on 53,865 lists and Justin Bieber is listed on 52,621 lists.
This shows Justin Bieber is rapidly catching up to President Barack Obama and will soon overtake him to be the most listed Twitterer. This could be a sign Twitter is becoming more of a tween haven or tweens just tend to make more lists.
There are over 100 Twitter accounts listed on over 10,000 lists as of today. You can see the Most Listed Twitterers chart here.
Sleeping Time is a Twitter tool that determines a Twitter user's sleeping schedule based on when they tweet. In the example above, Sleeping Time determined that Martha Stewart sleeps about six hours a night and that she is an early riser. That sounds like it might be about right. You can type in the username for any Twitter user and it will tell you when they sleep.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Launches Twitter Account
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has launched a Twitter account, @PressSec. His first tweet reads, "Learning about "the twitter" - easing into this with first tweet - any tips?"
The Twitter account's bio says "An official WH twitter account. Comments & messages received through official WH pages are subject to the PRA and may be archived."
The launch of the Press Secretary Twitter account comes shortly after news that Obama administration is seeking a Social Networks Manager to manage the President's Facebook, Twitter and MySpace accounts.
Those looking for Twitter followers and/or attention at parties or clubs might try these Twitter stockings. The stockings are sold here on Etsy. The stockings might get more followers if they had your Twitter username but that wouldn't be very subtle. Not that these are subtle.
Mashable reports that Twitter has started rolling out local trending topics. So far just 1% of users have the service.
"We're rolling out local trends to 1 percent of users today, but we'll share more information when it reaches a larger audience hopefully sometime next week. We'll keep you posted when that happens."
Twitter trends have been a feature that is unique to Twitter. Twitter is able to offer the feature which provides a real-time look at what is going on in the world. The local trends will take this feature and apply it to specific cities, towns and regions. Only 15 U.S. cities are supported by local Twitter trends so far but that is likely to change.
Mashable reports that the word "Twilf" has entered Twitter Vernacular thanks to an episode of Current's Super News. In the cartoon Sarah Palin is referred to as a Twilf. The word has a more wholesome meaning then you might think. The Urban Dictionary says Twilf is a "Tweep I'd like to follow." The problem with Sarah Palin being a Twilf is she hasn't been twittering lately. Here is the crazy Current cartoon where the word twilf comes up.
Britney Spears' Twitter account, @britneyspears, was hacked for at least the third time today. A downside to having a high profile Twitter acount is that hack attempts are more likely. Britney's account is the 2nd most followed and the 8th most listed. Unlike in the past when hackers have taken over groups of high profile accounts Britney's Twitter appears to have been the sole target. The hackers tried to make it seem as if Britney is a Satan worshipper.
Britney's web team - which has its own list now on Twitter - tweeted the following apology.
Jim Carrey's bizarre new website should win the award for best version of a Twitter bird. The website has a bird with Jim Carrey's head on it that shares his latest tweets. If you click on the bird it goes to Jim Carrey's Twitter account, @jimcarrey. Well played Jim Carrey.
We have compiled a list here of the 200+ most listed Twitter accounts. Listorious has launched a list here of the most followed lists on Twitter. Twitterholic has a list here of the most followed Twitter accounts. All three of these help measure how much influence a Twitter account has but none of them alone provide an accurate measure of a Twitterer's reach or influence.
Trying to measure how much reach or influence a given Twitter account has is an increasingly complex issue. You would need to factor in followers as well as the number of lists someone is on. In addition, specific lists will also be important because Listorious's list of the most followed lists shows that being on some lists gives Twitter users more influence than others. Twitter's list widgets allow lists to be embedded on webpages. Twitterers listed on lists that get embedded could get more exposure. There is also the issue of private lists which may not be added to a Twitterer's list total.
The list of the most listed Twitterers has Barack Obama way out in front which seems appropriate since he is the President. The list is heavily dominated by celebrities. There are few news or tech-related accounts on the list. In this way the list of the most listed Twitterers is very similar to the list of the most followed Twitterers. However, the highest ranked celebrities on the most listed list are different than those on the most followed list. Taylor Swift is ranked second on the most listed list but she is not (yet) one of the top 25 most followed accounts. Taylor Swift's high list ranking seems logical given that she was one of the biggest Twitter stories this year because of the Kanye West incident at the VMAs. A couple young Disney stars - Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez - also rank very highly on the most listed list yet they are much farther down on the most followed. This could indicate that many listmakers are very young but it is still way too early with lists to read much into this. The only obvious trend is that those who can be bothered enough to make lists love to put celebrities on them and that celebrities crush everyone else when it comes to getting put on lists. Listmakers also like humor - Shit My Dad Says is ranked fifth and The Onion is 20th.
When it comes to list of the top lists on Listorious what stands out is that very few lists are followed by many people. Only the Twitter Team list has a large follower number of over 37,000. This number is big because Twitter put a link to the list on every single Twitter user's homepage. The number actually seems kind of small considering ever single person on Twitter was given a chance to follow it. The fact that not many lists have very many followers could mean that people prefer to make their own lists. Lists may be more of a personal thing than a social thing. It could also mean that many users are not aware of Listorious or the fact that they can follow other people's lists. It's also possible that they simply could not be bothered. Again, it is too early to tell because lists are only about a week old. It takes time to make lists and many people still haven't had time to try them out.
Celebrity Twitter Accounts Among Most Listed Twitter Accounts
There are some blog posts discussing the most listed Twitter accounts here and here that claim Mashable is the second most listed Twitter account. It hasn't been #2 for several days. Here is the correct ranking of the top most listed accounts.
Update 11-2-09: You can find a longer list of the Most Listed Twitter Accounts here.
It's good to see Mashable up near the top of the most listed Twitter accounts, but Mashable has been falling. The list of the most listed has been trending more celebrity since lists were turned on for all Twitterers a couple days ago. A week ago Mashable was ranked first and a couple days ago it was ranked fourth. Now it is ranked seventh. The trend that seems to be shaping up here is that celebrities will have to most listed Twitter accounts sort of like what you see on Twitterholic, a site that shows Twitter accounts with the most followers. However, the celebrities with the most listed accounts is a turning out to be a little different then the celebrity accounts with the most followers.
Note: You can find a list of 400+ celebrities here, a list of Twitter tools and apps here and lots more lists at Listorious.com.
The Telegraph 
The Library of Congress (LOC) will be archiving all of your tweets. The Library of Congress has acquired Twitter's archives and every public tweet since Twitter's inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress. The LOC will also archive all future tweets. There will be a six month delay before tweets enter the archive.
Mashable 
Jim Carrey's bizarre new 