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You should be following us on Twitter, where we are posting breaking news, links to our favorite stories and what we're covering. We're also posting from meetings and events as they happen.

Twitter is a social media microblogging platform where users keep their "followers" up-to-date with what they are doing with short posts of just 140 characters or fewer. The service launched in 2006, but it has taken off like gangbusters this year.
According to Compete.com, Twitter more than quadrupled its users from November 2007 to June 2008. There are now more than 1.2 million Tweeters.

Lest you think it's just for kids, a Time magazine article last month reports the largest age demographic is 35-to-44-year-olds, which make up more than 25 percent of users. And the 55+ demographics are growing, too. Interestingly, more than 57 percent of Tweeters are from California.

Here's where you can find us, so you'll know when the pagination system crashes or when we get cranky phone calls or drunks barge in to city council meetings:

Editor Phillip Sanfield: www.twitter.com/editorbreeze
Managing Editor Toni Sciacqua: www.twitter.com/dailybreezeME
Assistant City Editor (and pets blogger) Josh Grossberg: www.twitter.com/dbdog
Crime Reporter Larry Altman: www.twitter.com/dbreezecrime
Courts Reporter Denise Nix: www.twitter.com/dbreezecourts
Beach Cities Reporter Andrea Woodhouse: www.twitter.com/akwoodhouse
Gardena, Lawndale, Hawthorne Reporter Sandy Mazza: www.twitter.com/dailybreezeSM
Harbor Area Reporter (and pets blogger) Donna Littlejohn: www.twitter.com/dbbark
Copy desk chief Jack Mulkey: www.twitter.com/jacko75
Features Editor Leo Smith: www.twitter.com/dailybreezearts
Prep Sports reporters Tony Ciniglio and Dave Thorpe: www.twitter.com/breezepreps
Soccer columnist Nick Green: www.twitter.com/LAsoccerblog

Is the Happiest Place on Earth the coolest place in the virtual world, too?

The Disney experience will be tweeted. Twisney has set up a Twitter account to report length of ride lines and other goings-on in Anaheim at Disneyland, California Adventure, Downtown Disney and hotels.

The coolness doesn't end there. Each message gets tagged on an actual map of the parks, with the precise tweets pinpointed on a map that can be seen in aerial or birds-eye views.

Disney has harnessed the web to imagineer a virtual theme park experience. Lojoconnect.com reports that Disney's 3-D rendering of Walt Disney World on Google Earth is the largest corporate contribution to the global mapping service. The richly textured model may bog down the memory of some computers, but otherwise ... wow. We eagerly await a similar initiative for Anaheim's parks.