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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R.L. Stine

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Chester Higgins Jr. / The New York Times

Followers: 21K
Sample tweet: "Yes, the world is falling apart and we are all doomed. But we still need to do our part for Nat'l Scare A Child Month."

For a man who makes a living spooking kids, there's not a lot that's frightening about author R.L. Stine's tweets. From the man behind the popular young-adult Goosebumps and Fear Street horror series, Stine's microjokes are welcome commentary to a world of drab news updates, all mixed in with the occasional bone-chilling narrative in tweet form, of course.

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