SoCal Mom Has a Twitter List, Too

I'm not a huge fan of magazine sites like Babble.

I guess it's generational: I've been online since 1981, my daughter is a teenager, I prefer a paper magazine, I've rarely found anything there I relate to, I don't have TIME for it.

Or maybe I'm just pissed off that I am not cool enough to write for them.

Yesterday, they reminded me again of how NOT COOL I am, with their publication of the 50 Best Twitter Moms, "whose tweets every mom should follow."

Not surprisingly, I'm not on that list, either. But I had to admit - it's a good list. After all, it includes several women I think of as friends: @PunditMom, @JessicaGottlieb, @Mom101, @MochaMomma ... and just the fact that those people talk to me makes me a little bit cool, right?

The weird thing about any Twitter list is that it's kind of a snapshot in time. I've been using the service for several years now -- and while it started out as just being another fun way to keep in touch with your friends, it has evolved into a powerful marketing tool. Today, I find it kind of a distraction and just another task I NEED to do for business.

I'm not on Twitter as much as I used to be -- and neither are a lot of the people I most enjoy tweeting with. Or maybe it's just tough to wade through all the ads, promotions, and "Twitter parties." If this list had been published one or two years ago, there would likely be a lot of different names (for one thing, I'd bet half the people on the list were not even Twitter users in 2007).

Yeah, I know. I need to get over the feeling that being online first entitles me to some kind of advantage over everyone else.

Anyway... To be fair, @Mamaista, who compiled the list, recognizes the impossibility of choosing just 50 "top" Tweeters: "So many great twitter moms, so many tweets, so many potential tweeps to piss off due to glaring omissions," she says. She wisely concludes her list with an opportunity for readers to nominate and vote for their own choices -- something I started to do.

And then I decided this was a game I could play, too. So I wasted spent yesterday afternoon doing just that.

So I created a new list of SoCal Mom's Top 50 Moms on Twitter -- women whose tweets delight, inform and entertain me; women I have developed relationships with; women who I look forward to reading each day. These include my colleagues at CBS Local Los Angeles, MOMocrats and the much-missed Los Angeles Moms Blog.

For space purposes, I omitted those who were already on the Babble list. And I confess that I may have left out others who should be there -- so I have a feeling this list will grow.

Because we're all a little bit cool.

Comments

[Liz@ThisFullHouse]

Heh, I probably spend way too much time on Twitter and should probably be doing something much more, I dunno, productive (i.e. boring) however, seeing as I am on YOUR list, #maybeiamnotsuchadorkafterall!

[Donna]

I dunno, Liz - I think Dorky is the new Cool! (I love Twitter for when I'm parked in the car waiting for the bell to ring, or sitting in the dentist's office, as I will be doing once again today).

[Glennia]

You're actually the coolest of us all.