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Twitter at Five: Kady O’Malley’s Five to Follow

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In honour of Twitter’s upcoming fifth birthday, the Post is celebrating all (OK, most) things Twitter.

In Five to Follow, a week-long web series, our columnists and other notable Twitter users pick five of their favourite tweeters.

Below, CBC reporter/blogger and prolific tweeter Kady O’Malley, a frequent pick for the week’s Five to Follow contributors (see: Chris Selley, Scott Stinson and Rick Mercer). (Follow Kady on Twitter here.)

On the partisan political front: @TonyClement_MP is on everyone’s list of politicians who come across like a real, live flesh and blood human being, and not simply a channel for the latest party dispatch, but I’d also give a shoutout to Halifax’s feisty New Democrat @MeganLeslieMP, who is slowly but surely providing some competition for that title.

In fact, I’d recommend keeping an eye on the entire Halifax politics crew, which is, as far as I can tell, the liveliest local journalistic online party line outside of the capital. Get your fix by following the #nspoli hashtag. (No, I’m not a Haligonian, I just love eavesdropping on fellow journos. It makes me feel slightly less crazy.)

The Globe and Mail’s @DougSaunders, who is always up and tweeting when I rouse at the crack of dawn to hammer out my morning post, and who gets my brain off to a suitably international start every day, which is essential when one spends the rest of the day obsessing over the intricacies of the parliamentary precinct.

The ineffable @TabathaSouthey, who can pack a Saki-esque wallop of snark into 140 characters of arch observation.

The National Post’s own @NPSteve, who managed to make the Toronto mayoral race even more entertaining than it already was, which took some doing, I’ll tell you and has kept me sufficiently entertained since then to make me click on a link to a portrait of Snooki.

Finally, if I was stuck on a desert island and given the choice of just one news feed to follow, it would have to be @NatNewswatch. (Fingers crossed that he’d start tweeting weather reports for somewhere-in-the-Pacific-Ocean along with all the latest Canadian news so I could plan my raft building efforts while keeping track of the latest round of election speculation.)

We also want to know who you like to follow on Twitter — and why. Tweet @nationalpost with the hashtag #favefollow, or, if you simply can’t contain yourself to 140 characters, email favefollow@scribblelive.com.

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