The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2011

TIME picks the 140 Twitter feeds that are shaping the conversation. Take a look and vote on whether you think these top tweeters should be on our list. Click here to see the poll results

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Rafat Ali

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Followers: 8K
Sample tweet: "What's startup-y about a monolithic launch like Color? We need a better moniker than "startup" for such."

Rafat Ali is the founder of ContentNextMedia Inc. and its most successful venture, paidContent.org, a site that launched in 2002 and has since become a new-media touchstone with its coverage of the economics of digital content. A former tech reporter, Ali sends tweets that are in line with the latest news straight from Silicon Valley, with a dash of snark to taste.

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