18 Jewish Twitter Accounts You Should Be Following

If you’re any kind of a frequent Twitter user, at some point you’ve fervently wished that the thing had just never been invented. The social network, microbloggling tool, networking bonanza, joke format, and angry mob organizational platform debuted 10 years ago today. It cannot un-debut. We’re stuck with the thing. And it’s so useful, especially for journalists, we’re probably stuck with it for the rest of our lives—or I am, at least.

For Jews, there’s actually plenty worth celebrating about the medium’s survival. As Marc Tracy wrote for Tablet in 2012, there’s an energetic Jewish presence on the site. And it’s little wonder, since there’s plenty in the Twitterian Sheol—or pit of chaos—that Jews can recognize. There’s the detectably Talmudic patter to Twitter’s daily avalanche of argument and reference: Like rabbinic literature, Twitter is a comprehensive running commentary on virtually everything.

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