News Commentary

Barack Obama

This account is run by #Obama2012 campaign staff. Tweets from the President are signed -bo.
16,178,115 followers |

CNN Breaking News

CNN.com is among the world's leaders in online news and information delivery.
7,632,992 followers |

The New York Times

Where the Conversation Begins. Follow for breaking news, NYTimes.com home page articles, special features and RTs of our journalists.
5,217,705 followers |

Breaking News

Breaking news alerts around the world from hundreds of sources 24 hours a day. Get more on BreakingNews.com, and follow our team on @breaking.
4,099,526 followers |

The Onion

America's Finest News Source. Follow @OnionPolitics for the latest War For The White House election coverage. Also http://facebook.com/theonion
3,823,686 followers |

TIME.com

Breaking news and current events from around the globe. Hosted by the staff of TIME. Tweet your questions to our customer service team @TIMEmag_Service.
3,543,390 followers |

BBC Breaking News

Breaking news alerts and updates from the BBC. For news, features, analysis follow @BBCWorld (our World edition) and @BBCNews (our UK edition).
3,298,381 followers |

BBC News (World)

The latest stories, features and updates from BBC News (World edition). For UK edition, follow @BBCNews. For breaking news, follow @BBCBreaking
2,036,089 followers |

UK Prime Minister

The official twitter channel for Prime Minister David Cameron's office, based at 10 Downing Street. Twitter policy: http://www.number10.gov.uk/number10online/
2,002,572 followers |

Huffington Post

The Internet Newspaper - Curated by @kerstinshamberg, @lauralizhibbard, @socialmia, @deanpraetorius, @travelinganna
1,854,460 followers |

Wall Street Journal

Breaking news, investigative reporting, business coverage and features from The Wall Street Journal.
1,770,222 followers |

Newsweek

Tweets from @Newsweek magazine. Connecting the dots. [hosted by @moneyries]
1,640,439 followers |

Newt Gingrich

Husband, father, grandfather, citizen, small businessman, author, former Speaker. I'm running for president to offer leadership to solve America's challenges.
1,462,815 followers |

UN Refugee Agency

The official account of UNHCR. Follow us as we provide vital aid and protection to the forcibly displaced around the world (@AlexandraKE tweeting)
1,220,420 followers |

PBS

PBS invites you to explore new ideas and discover new worlds. Join us here for conversation and sharing.
1,183,863 followers |

UNICEF

Founded in 1946, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized.
1,056,717 followers |

Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera English, the 24-hour English-language news and current affairs channel, headquartered in Doha, Qatar. Follow @AJELive for breaking news alerts.
1,044,170 followers |

Discovery Channel US

Official Twitter account for Discovery Channel U.S.
920,747 followers |

BBC News (UK)

The latest stories, features and updates from BBC News (UK edition). For world edition, follow @BBCWorld. For breaking news, follow @BBCBreaking
741,773 followers |

Financial Times

All the big stories on FT.com and updates from our news editors. Our tweets here are the same as those on @FT. Subscribe to the FT: http://on.ft.com/xq1lr
732,223 followers |

The Next Web

Our feed of international news on technology, business and culture. Follow @TNW for top stories OR follow specific channels in our twitter lists.
720,707 followers |

Slate

Politics, culture, technology, business, news, and commentary. Procrastinate better.
361,515 followers |

Los Angeles Times

News from SoCal, California and the world, from the L.A. Times. Staffed by latimes.com editors. See latimes.com/twitter for other LAT streams.
292,530 followers |

James Hirsen

New York Times Bestselling Author, Columnist for Newsmax, Attorney, Law Professor and Former Keyboard Player for the Temptations. #tcot, I follow back!
247,579 followers |

Stephen Harper

Prime Minister of Canada
224,633 followers |

HuffPost Politics

The latest political news from The Huffington Post's politics team.
195,538 followers |

The Beatles

If you like The Beatles, you'll LOVE to follow BeatlesTweets. Most days your favorite Beatles experts will tweet facts, news, how-tos and even lyrics!
179,832 followers |

The Globe and Mail

News and headlines from Canada's national newspaper
138,094 followers |

CBC Top Stories

Top stories, features and viewpoints from CBCNews.ca.
123,698 followers |

Jack Layton

Leader, Canada's New Democrats.
113,022 followers |

Channel 4 News

In-depth analysis from our newsroom of experts, exclusive stories & breaking news. Follow the conversation with #c4news. For more from 4 follow @C4Insider
103,989 followers |

Justme

Just Being Me; Believing in myself, America & doing what is right. Political Loyalty has no place in US any longer. Thinking is not a part-time job.
97,458 followers |

HelpOnline

FJMDNAJLM, Family, Understatements Fashion, Vodka diets, food, HHouse,Hard Work,Fun,Art,Fish&Chips,Yorkshire,Rugby, HTAFC,F1,SriLanka,Turkey,BornGlobal,FRIENDS
92,857 followers |

Michael Ignatieff

90,999 followers |

Andrew Malcolm

Political news & commentary from Andrew Malcolm of Investor's Business Daily. (formerly Top of the Ticket @ latimestot)
85,536 followers |

Daryl Cagle

DARYL CAGLE is msnbc.com’s cartoonist! Visit: http://cagle.com http://politicalcartoons.com http://cagle.com/app http://cartoonblog.msnbc.com
82,314 followers |

Marc Parent

Blogger - Interwebber on politics, finance, news, media, society, government, the internets - CRIMES AND CORRUPTION OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER http://j.mp/RhMY9
76,992 followers |

Gilles Duceppe

70,444 followers |

CBC Radio Q

CBC's Q with Jian Ghomeshi // arts • culture • entertainment
68,471 followers |

Guardian World

All the latest from the foreign desk at the Guardian in London and all points north, south, east and west
59,348 followers |

Mashable Business

News about small business, advertising & marketing, money & finance, plus careers and business apps from @Mashable. Tweets by @ToddWasserman.
52,888 followers |

Ron Leopold

Keynote Speaker. Thought Leader. MD, MBA, MPH. Health Care. Workforce. Business Life. Employee Benefits. Human Resources. Futurist. Humor. Comedy. Baby Boomer.
51,967 followers |

Haaretz.com

All the news from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World
51,256 followers |

National Post

News, analysis & commentary, curated by the NP online team. The Post on Twitter: http://natpo.st/mRz43J | Post Staff http://natpo.st/qCGHOg
49,085 followers |

Truthout

Free News for Free Thinkers. Official Truthout Tweets
45,848 followers |

Andy Andrews

New York Times Best-Selling Author. International Speaker. Author of How Do You Kill 11 Million People?. Proud father and husband.
44,910 followers |

Bill Romanos

Science, technology, space, intelligence, philosophy, writing, book collecting and reading, etc. Attorney.
41,594 followers |

FAO Media Centre

News & info from the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO, aka #UNFAO), the UN agency that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.
38,151 followers |

Jon Hutson

News on human rights and justice. Innovative thinking about strategic communication for nonprofit groups. My views, not necessarily my employer's.
38,025 followers |

People's Almanac

The New People's Almanac: For Those Who Need To Know
36,525 followers |

CTV Canada AM

Canada's only national morning show, featuring @bdthomson, @marciien & @jeffhutcheson
36,390 followers |

CBC Radio

CBC Radio's Twitter, run by Ananda (AK) and occasionally Angela Misri (AM) in the Radio Digital Programming department.
34,975 followers |

DailySource

A nonprofit of top journalists scanning the Internet 24/7 to bring you a tasty feast of high quality news, opinion, photos and more from thousands of sources.
29,771 followers |

DailyFinance

Our mission is to help our readers navigate through perilous economic times and make better decisions about the future.
25,214 followers |

CBC Politics

The CBC's Parliamentary Bureau on Twitter
25,097 followers |

david hallstrom

Interested in almost everything but will follow most people who post about legal and health issues or good clean humor.
24,628 followers |

Ali Abunimah

co-founder of the http://ElectronicIntifada.net, author of One Country: A Bold-Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse. Opinions are mine alone.
23,221 followers |

RayBeckerman

Law, social justice, nature, human & animal rights, the arts, ecology. Progressive. I try to lend my voice to the voiceless. http://is.gd/cNFKN
22,433 followers |

CSMonitor.com

The Christian Science Monitor: To injure no man, but to bless all mankind. http://www.facebook.com/christiansciencemonitor
22,381 followers |

Cliff Groman

Import,Export,Transport Planner,Sports advisor,Working online and enjoy life
21,766 followers |

CBC Arts

Arts and entertainment news and features, and Things That Go Pop! blog from CBCNews.ca.
21,236 followers |

Edmonton Journal

Headlines on all subjects from the Edmonton Journal. A list of our journalist tweeps: http://edmjr.nl/TwList Our customer service feed: @EJ_Cares
21,162 followers |

HuffPostBiz

Business news and commentary -- send tips to business@huffingtonpost.com | Editors: @maxwellstrachan and @jillianberman
20,765 followers |

Jim Cashel

Chairman of Forum One, a digital communications firm which works at the nexus of technology, public policy, and online community.
19,315 followers |

Evan Solomon

Evan Solomon is the Host of Power and Politics with Evan Solomon on CBCNN, Mon to Fri 5-7pmE and CBC Radio's political affairs program The House, Sat, 9amE
19,289 followers |

CBC-The Current

Tune into CBC Radio One at 8:30 am (9 am NT) Monday to Friday!
18,733 followers |

Stephen Taylor

Director at the National Citizens Coalition. Canadian. Conservative in Ottawa. Blogger. Opinions are my own. RTs not necessarily endorsements.
15,821 followers |

CBC Newfoundland

CBC Newfoundland and Labrador: News, updates, polls, contests and the odd bit o' fun.
14,370 followers |

MyPolitics Canada

News, information and opinions on Canadian politics. FREE iPhone app http://bit.ly/7lukZy. If you follow me, I will follow you. http://www.purpleforge.com
14,279 followers |

The National

The flagship nightly news and current affairs program from Canada's public broadcaster, CBC-TV.
14,043 followers |

Seamus O'Regan

The official (and personal) Twitter for Seamus O'Regan. If there were others, I'm sure they'd be more interesting.
13,415 followers |

Yahoo Canada News

Living life above the fold? We'll keep you informed and entertained. News doesn't sleep and neither do we.
13,294 followers |

Terry Milewski

12,497 followers |

Michaëlle Jean

Rt Hon. Michaëlle Jean/La très honorable Michaëlle Jean 27th Governor General of Canada
11,788 followers |

Globe Politics

The latest political news from the campaign trail and beyond.
11,628 followers |

Afghanistan News

Afghanistan News from TRCBNews.com - Local News from Afghanistan
11,460 followers |

CP Ottawa

Follow breaking Canadian political news from the Ottawa Bureau of The Canadian Press
10,844 followers |

Hot Breaking News

♨ Breaking news from all over the world .Follow the best news channel on Twitter =)
10,068 followers |

Earth Hour Canada

Updates on Earth Hour from WWF-Canada. Tweets by @sarafalconer and @katieedmonds1
10,055 followers |

VOCM News

Follow us for all your local news and information from Newfoundland and Labrador Now!
9,752 followers |

Stephen Oravec

Fashion. Poetry. Videogames. Photography.
9,381 followers |

Will

Please, call me Will... National Newswatch: Everyone reads it
8,960 followers |

Millennium Promise

Together, Our Generation Can End Extreme Poverty
7,624 followers |

Stephen Wicary

Online political editor, The Globe and Mail.
7,148 followers |

NP Politics

Home of the latest National Post news and commentary on the Canadian political scene.
6,567 followers |

The CCPA

Independent,non-partisan research institute on social, economic, environmental justice. More CCPA tweeters: http://twitter.com/#!/ccpa/ccpa-staff
6,564 followers |

580 CFRA

CFRA is Ottawa's 24 hour news centre.
6,126 followers |

MoneySense

Canadian-based magazine on personal finance, investing, spending, saving and more.
6,065 followers |

Ralph Goodale

MP for Wascana and Deputy Liberal Leader
5,246 followers |

Hannah Thibedeau

Television Journalist
5,219 followers |

canada.com news

Canada's leading 24/7 general news and information source
5,013 followers |

CBC News, Connect

Mark Kelley turns the day's news into a personal experience. M-F at 8:00 p.m. ET live on CBC NN and cbc.ca/connect #bullyPROOF
4,676 followers |

Martha Hall Findlay

Former Liberal MP for Willowdale; Executive Fellow, School of Public Policy, U of Calgary; Chair of the 2012 Couchiching Conference; and - we'll wait and see...
4,453 followers |

Meagan Fitzpatrick

I'm an online reporter,covering Canadian politics for CBC News.Before joining CBC I wrote for Postmedia News (formerly known as Canwest News Service)
4,417 followers |

TAMIL sri lanka

Sinhala dominated Sri Lankan governments have been systematically eliminating Tamils. News Update-Tamil, Sri lanka,News, world,Genocide, LTTE, Vanni, Eelam
4,274 followers |

Owen O' Malley

Stock Market trader, Internet Marketer
4,265 followers |

The Scope

The Scope: St. John's News, Arts & Entertainment Magazine
4,222 followers |

Vancouver 2010 Blog

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Guide to Free Events iphone App
4,101 followers |

TRCBNews.com

News with unique prospective at TRCBNews.com
4,022 followers |

US Consumer News

News for Consumers in a Changing World
4,010 followers |

politweets

A non-partisan service that brings together all the Canadian political Twitter, making it easy to connect elected MPs & MLAs with the Canadian people.
3,995 followers |

CBC's The House

The House airs Saturday mornings at 7h00ET on Sirius Satellite Radio 159, at 9am on CBC Radio One (9:30 NT), www.cbc.ca/thehouse
3,930 followers |

Embassy Magazine

Embassy is Canada's Foreign Policy, Trade, Development, Defence, Immigration, Public Safety, International Politics Newspaper
3,545 followers |

CBC Weather Centre

Updates from the CBC Weather Centre Meteorologists J. Wagstaffe, M. Leslie, S. James, K. Matthews, G. Dookhie and Weather Specialist J. Scotland.
3,523 followers |

Iraq Inquiry Blogger

Channel 4 News's blog of the Iraq Inquiry.
3,300 followers |

Child Soldier Relief

The mission of Child Soldier Relief (CSR) is to advocate on behalf of child soldiers by serving as a central repository of information relating to the topic.
3,124 followers |

VOCM Backtalk

Hosted by Paddy Daly. Local callers in the St. John’s area dial 273-5211. Long distance callers can phone VOCM Backtalk at 1-888-590-VOCM (8626)
2,619 followers |

Josh Greenberg

Assoc. Professor, Communication Studies at Carleton University. I write about PR, public health, political communication. Runner, cyclist, music fan.
2,551 followers |

Idea Flurry

New ideas, products and more mostly from Twitter - the RT link is at the end of each Tweet
2,526 followers |

scientific wisdom

Science quotes - Wisdom Quotes to challenge and inspire.
2,495 followers |

The Majlis

Unbiased Middle East news, analysis and commentary by Gregg Carlstrom and Evan Hill.
2,354 followers |

Zach Goudie

CBC Reporter - find me in front of or behind the camera.
2,349 followers |

Inet Manual

Your guide to instruction on the Internet. Learn to use your computer, and much more.
2,162 followers |

Western Star

Follow to get headline updates. You can also follow @ChrisNoseworthy — our web editor, @WestStar_Editor and @WS_SportsDesk.
2,112 followers |

SJ Morning Show

The St. John's Morning Show airs on CBC Radio 1 each weekday, serving eastern Newfoundland. Tune in!
2,048 followers |

On The Go

On The Go, with Ted Blades, airs across Newfoundland and Labrador at 4 p.m. NT every weekday.
2,028 followers |

Nadia Stewart

A multi-platform journalist with a passion for news. The views posted here do not reflect those of the CBC.
1,998 followers |

Mark Kelley

1,878 followers |

twittolympic

Follow the Olympics Games in Twitter
1,470 followers |

Darcy Fitzpatrick

The St. John's Blog.
1,425 followers |

NL's Classic Rock

98.7 K-Rock Central Newfoundland's Classic Rock!
1,371 followers |

The Gov Monitor

The Gov Monitor is an online public policy and administration platform working to promote better governance
1,365 followers |

CURRENT Magazine

CURRENT is all about what's hot and happening in the St. John's core. If you want to be in on what's on the go in this City, you've got to get CURRENT.
1,365 followers |

Peter Cowan

Not to be confused with the other Peter, I'm a reporter and video journalist for CBC covering eastern Labrador. If only I was paid by the square kilometer.
1,348 followers |

What Canadians Want

News junkie!
1,316 followers |

Quebec News

All the Quebec news on Twitter - Tout ce qui concerne Quebec sur Twitter : )
1,025 followers |

Project Democracy

Canada needs electoral reform. Cooperation is the way to that goal.
909 followers |

Canada Elects

A collection of Twitters and Bloggers following Canadian federal politics...Enjoy!
904 followers |

GDP webdoc

The GDP project is an interactive webdocumentary with films, photo-essays and text. Produced by the NFB, complemented by you.
886 followers |

CBC Labrador Morning

Labrador Morning on CBC Radio from 6 - 8:30a.m. Atlantic
872 followers |

MIGNEWS

World's online news and information delivery: Real Estate, Politics, Society, Accidents, Economics, Sports, Humor, Business, Internet.
740 followers |

Dawn Chafe

Editor of Atlantic Canada's leading business magazine.
720 followers |

ACORN International

Official twitter page of ACORN International. Home of the Commonwealth Games & Remittance Justice Campaigns.
718 followers |

Herman D. Lawson

CONTROVERSIAL
711 followers |

Canadian

695 followers |

Liberal Party of NL

The Liberal Party of Newfoundland & Labrador
660 followers |

PeerFX

PeerFX is the only online currency exchange built for small business owners. We make it easy to save time and money!
645 followers |

Tara Brautigam

Atlantic news editor, The Canadian Press
642 followers |

madeinafrika

world news
537 followers |

Kailyn Watson

464 followers |

The Advertiser

Serving the Exploits Valley
391 followers |

Election Almanac

Complete coverage of federal, provincial and territorial elections in Canada.
364 followers |

M Bushra

Austro-African-Arabian-Brit member of Generation Y; obsessed with books, internets, piracy/copyright, caffeine, perception, academia and intellectual revolution
339 followers |

Dave Bartlett

Canadian journalist, writer, musician, Leafs fan, TV addict, gamer, bowler, husband, brother, son, uncle, homeowner, audiophile. Twitter now has more sideburns.
327 followers |

The Compass

307 followers |

The Beacon

The Beacon serves the town of Gander and 35 other communities in the Bonavista North and Terra Nova regions. It is published every Thursday.
254 followers |

The Gulf News

228 followers |

Glenn Littlejohn

Glenn is the PC Candidate for Port de Grave District. Strong community roots tie him to the area where he grew up.
213 followers |

The Nor'wester

113 followers |

Mike Hewson

Retired meteorologist living in Bay Roberts NL
56 followers |

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