If you only have 140 characters, they should be worth reading, no? Depends on whose Twitter feed you read. Time Magazine has just published a list (of course they did) of the top 140 Twitter feeds around the country. No, sorry, neither Charlie Sheen nor Kim Kardashian made it — Neil Gaiman is #1, Sarah Palin #4, Lady Gaga #7 — but a number of food relevant people did. Marion Nestle, whose tweets some of us read as religiously as Stephen Colbert's (#12), came in at #94. Michael Pollan ranked #62.
It's an interesting list: Margaret Atwood (#37); Instant Netflix (#104). Turn the page to see all 140. Of course, we'd be very interested to know who you think they missed. If for no other reason than we can follow them if we don't already. We vote for Jonathan Gold's Twitter feed, but we're admittedly biased. (Final note: it's good to know Harry Reid and Lord Voldemort have separate Twitter feeds.)
1. Neil Gaiman
2. Andy Borowitz
3. Kelly Oxford
4. Sarah Palin
5. White Girl Problems
6. Charlie McDowell
7. Lady Gaga
8. Neil Patrick Harris
9. Michael Ian Black
10. Andy Carvin
11. Lord Voldemort
12. Stephen Colbert
13. Felicia Day
14. Drunk Hulk
15. Justin Bieber
16. Maureen Johnson
17. Roger Ebert
18. Taylor Swift
19. Sultan al-Qassemi
20. Alyssa Milano
21. Conan O'Brien
22. Kanye West
23. Southwest Airlines
24. Nick Kristof
25. Sean Hannity
26. Jennifer Weiner
27. R.L. Stine
28. Patton Oswalt
29. Wil Wheaton
30. Ellen DeGeneres
31. Neil DeGrasse Tyson
32. Tracy Jordan
33. Mindy Kaling
34. Anthony Weiner
35. Xeni Jardin
36. Chelsea Handler
37. Margaret Atwood
38. Homer Simpson
39. The Onion
40. John Hodgman
41. William Gibson
42. Ashton Kutcher
43. Tim Siedell
44. Aziz Ansari
45. Princess Diana
46. Jimmy Fallon
47. Newt Gingrich
48. Chris Hardwick
49. Bill Maher
50. John McCain
51. Nancy Pelosi
52. Whole Foods Market
53. Eric Stangel
54. Rio Ferdinand
55. Michelle Malkin
56. Pour Me Coffee
57. Bill Simmons
58. Old Hoss Radbourn
59. Blake Hounshell
60. Rory McIlroy
61. H&R Block
62. Michael Pollan
63. Cory Booker
64. Susan Orlean
65. Wael Ghonim
66. Jose Afonso Furtado
67. Apolo Ohno
68. Gina Trapani
69. Jake Tapper
70. Colson Whitehead
71. Harry Reid
72. Chuck Grassley
73. Breaking News
74. CNN Breaking News
75. Scott Brown
76. Harvard Business Review
77. Ezra Klein
78. Beth Blecherman
79. Jerk Superman
80. Starbucks
81. Martyn Williams
82. Comcast
83. Baratunde Thurston
84. Danny Sullivan
85. MomsWhoSave
86. Ta-Nehisi Coates
87. Claire McCaskill
88. Heidi N. Moore
89. Amazon MP3
90. Threadless
91. Pete Cashmore
92. Reuters
93. Steve Silberman
94. Woot
95. Marion Nestle
96. Rafat Ali
97. Agent Smith
98. American Public Health Association
99. RetailMeNot
100. Ann Curry
101. Paul La Monica
102. Robert Scoble
103. Fly.com
104. Instant Netflix
105. Felix Salmon
106. Chad Ochocinco
107. Atul Gawande
108. John Dickerson
109. New York Academy of Sciences
110. DealsPlus
111. Ana Marie Cox
112. National Science Foundation
113. JetBlue Airways
114. Dan Primack
115. The Lancet
116. Steve Nash
117. Brian Wilson
118. Kevin Rose
119. Slashdot
120. PIMCO
121. Jeremiah Owyang
122. Nouriel Roubini
123. CheapTweet
124. Jonah Lehrer
125. Richard Florida
126. Shaquille O'Neal
127. Paul Kedrosky
128. Dara Torres
129. Zappos
130. Nikki Finke
131. Best Buy Deals
132. Kara Swisher
133. Mike Allen
134. Om Malik
135. Amazon Deals
136. Fred Wilson
137. DealDivine
138. Nieman Lab
139. Coupons.com
140. Steven Johnson
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