Today, Time magazine published its annual list of the 140 Best Twitter Feeds (in the world!). The list is full of cultural tastemakers, newshounds and celebrities--but it seems to missing something. That's right, it's missing you. You didn't make the list, despite your tireless dedication to Twitter and the Twitter arts. Put down that bottle of Wild Turkey and your grandfather's old service revolver; we have some tips on how to get on Time's list next year.

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Ocearch's Facebook page for Mary Lee shows her checking in Near Martha's Vineyard.

Her name is Mary Lee, she weighs 3,500 pounds, she's swimming around near the Hamptons, and she's writing about her adventures on Twitter. (She's even invented her own shark smiley face, fin and all.)

The social media-saavy shark sure gets around fast. Only two weeks ago, she was chilling 200 yards off the coast of Florida, scaring swimmers out of the surf. But now she's cruising through local waters, visiting important shark landmarks like the Martha's Vineyard coastline where the 1975 blockbuster Jaws was filmed and house-shopping near East Hampton and Montauk Point.

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Twitter user @thomasgensemer

Have you seen these Puppylift ads on the subway recently? From a distance, they appear advertise plastic surgery for dogs, asking, "Is your dog a 'total dog'?" They also display pre- and post-facelift pics of a client's furry friend.

It's enough to make sleepy commuters double-take. On closer examination, though, there are hints the ad isn't for real. For instance, the quote splashed across the center of the ad -- "When push comes to shove, I wouldn't trust my dog's plastic surgery to anyone but Dr. Armond!" -- is attributed to a fictional character on TV's Kroll Show.

Also, the doggy surgery clinic's website, Puppylift.com, redirects to Comedy Central's website. Fact-checking on the subway is tricky though, considering most phones don't get 3G service underground, which has helped trick MTA passengers into thinking the ads are real.

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It's no doubt that a few people were devastated when Romney lost the election. And by "few people," we mean everyone on this site. Oh, and this young kid, too. The 48 percent of the country that wanted Romney in (or, more so, wanted Obama out of) the White House was defeated by the tyranny of the 47 percent (which, really, was closer to 50 percent) majority. It was over - Obama had solidified another four years crashing America into the ground and there was nothing more that could be done.

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Malcolm Harris, right, with his lawyer Marty Stolar outside the courtroom this morning.

Twitter rolled over in court today, turning over a fat sheaf of records subpoenaed by prosecutors in the case of Malcolm Harris, one of the people arrested last fall in a protest on the Brooklyn Bridge.

In what is shaping up to be a landmark case for privacy in the digital era, prosecutors had demanded three and a half months of records from a twitter account once used by Harris, @destructuremal.

Those records include tweets that were once public but had since ceased to be so, either because they were deleted or because they had passed beyond the publicly visible horizon of the twitter history. The records also include information that was never public, including geolocation data.

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Guy Adams

Because of our mutual interest in Scientology, Guy Adams and I have come to know each other in recent months. He's the Los Angeles-based reporter for the UK publication The Independent, and lately he's been taking aim at NBC's problems covering the London games.

But he really ran into trouble when he dared to criticize NBC on Twitter.

Yesterday, Twitter suspended his account, @guyadams, after he tweeted this:

The man responsible for NBC pretending the Olympics haven't started yet is Gary Zenkel. Tell him what u think! Email: Gary.zenkel@nbcuni.com

Adams tells me he's still trying to get to the bottom of why his account was suspended, but at this point it looks like NBC filed a complaint with Twitter for publishing Zenkel's e-mail address and Twitter agreed that Adams' tweet violated its policy against posting someone's "private information."

But Adams points out that Zenkel's corporate e-mail address is anything but private.

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If there is one place on the Internet where reality and faux personalities reign free, it is Twitter - the rapid pace of the constantly updating network allows mistakes to proliferate tenfold, sending shock-waves across the web much faster than ever before. And, this morning, Bill Keller, the former Editor of the New York Times, unfortunately learned this lesson the hard way.

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OK, so there seem to be two things going on here, both of them strange (and brought to our attention by the Voice's Steven Thrasher.)

The first: People post photos of their debit cards online, for all the world to see. And we're talking detailed pics -- with identifying info like their names, account number, expiration date, etc.

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Marchers in the roadway of th Brooklyn Bridge October 1st.

A Manhattan judge today ruled against Twitter, arguing that it had to turn over a protester's tweets to prosecutors, without the account user's consent and without a warrant.

When we last checked in on the case of Malcolm Harris, a writer at The New Inquiry and one of 700 people arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge as part of an Occupy Wall Street protest last October, things were already looking bleak for Harris and anyone else who wants to maintain control over their social media postings.

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