Bryce Edwards had his go at a list of the top 100 tweeters to follow this election, but with only 24 women making the cut he faced terrible accusations of “a perceived lack” of gender balance. The silver lining is that his follow-up post was chock-full of the women who complained! Pesky, pesky women, as ColeyTangerina put it.
I thought I’d try my hand at a list – with a lot of women, an entirely obvious leftwing bias, and a big disclaimer right up front that these are just people who I think have interesting things to say about the election and NZ politics. Please suggest your own faves in the comments!
In the interests of deflecting criticism, tweeps are listed alphabetically by username. Click on their name to see their Twitter feed and give them a follow!
Mainstream media
Get the inside scoop on the night’s top stories/the front page/the stuff that gets bumped because an All Black has a career-threatening injury.
Politicians
The good, the weird and the always-interesting-even-if-I-disagree-with-them.
https://twitter.com/asenatitaylor/status/501607601721704448
(Editor’s note: I am, like, 95% sure this isn’t the parody Asenati account. But who can tell?)
Nerds and h4xx0rs
Knowledge is power, innit?
Thinking folk
My people. And me. It’s my list, dammit.
https://twitter.com/DorothySarker/status/502335746062024704
https://twitter.com/tripthestation/status/503136017067429888
https://twitter.com/verbscape/status/503325468439748608
https://twitter.com/VishOnAMish/status/503293412045385728
https://twitter.com/writehandedgirl/status/501658041498869760
LOLz
It’s a laugh, isn’t it?
What?
That noise you make at the back of your throat.
Oh yeah, that’s a laugh.
https://twitter.com/johnkeysemotion/status/501939506346332161
Token rightwing pundit for “balance”
Hear the National Party’s key messages whole hours before they show up on The Panel!
https://twitter.com/MatthewHootonNZ/status/499984634302574593
Stephanie Rodgers 
completely off topic here, but just wanted to say thanks for perservering in the Gilchrist post on ts. Luckily I had to go out that day and then was offline mostly for a week, because I was gobsmacked by the post and many people’s responses to it, and didn’t want to risk a ban by saying something. Am glad you had some leeway with it under author privileges.
thanks for the tweep list too. I finally joined twitter so I could follow the Dirty Politics fall out, so will make use of it up to the election.
Thanks weka! I have had a good amount of feedback on the Gilchrist issue, I think a lot of people are feeling that way. Enjoy Twitter! (PS follow me 🙂 )
You are now duly followed 🙂