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We're running a little Twitter contest from now until 1 p.m.: Tweet us (@austinist) your best beautiful, idiotic, or otherwise nonsensical haiku for a chance to win a pair of weekend passes to Fun Fest plus a pair of spots on our VIP guestlist for Friday's Local Music is Sexy party at the Mohawk and Club Deville. Rules: include "#funfest" so we can find your haiku, and at least one of these phrases: "beer", "mechanical bull", or "Rick Perry". The responses thus far have been stunning.

Twitter just launched a new feature called 'Lists', which allow you to create smaller subsets of those you're following. We're embracing this nifty new idea and creating a bunch of Austin-specific lists, both to help us navigate all of our online friends and to help you guys better sort out what's happening locally.

• This may explain why the Fail Whale keeps appearing this week.
• Al Franken schools Right-Wing Health Care Analyst.
• About time: Treasury to order bailed-out banks to cut executive pay in half.

Texas Tech coach (and head pirate) Mike Leach has told social networking sites Twitter and Facebook to walk the plank after some recent online postings by his players.

Like every other newspaper trying to stay solvent in the face of declining advertising sales, the Austin American-Statesman is actively thinking outside the proverbial box, today quietly unveiling its latest revenue stream: Twitter ads.

Sugar Land-based TechRadium has sued Twitter in federal court, claiming that the popular messaging service infringes on its patents for a "mass notification" concept.

Iranian post-election violence, crackdown EU leading international pushback Obama’s diplomatic dilemma in Iran Technology: “Tianamen + Twitter = Tehran” Analysis: Ahmadinejad to emerge with even stronger hand Power of women in Iran’s election Comic relief: Facebook introduces vanity URLs, Heywood Jablome first in line

Austin fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir, who operates the Boudoir Queen label, filed a lawsuit against Courtney Love last week, alleging the singer spread "vile and vicious lies" about her in a series of online postings.

The old saying, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" may need to be updated to "On Twitter, everybody knows you're not a cop."

• Nearly 700,000 private-sector jobs were lost in February
• 1 in 5 U.S. homeowners owe more than their property is worth
• War crimes warrant issued for the president of Sudan

You may follow MCHammer, Erykah Badu, or Austin's own Ben Kweller on Twitter, but how can you be sure you're following all of your favorite artists? Check out this list, which has the Twitter accounts and websites for more than 700 musicians, along with those of music bloggers, record labels, podcasts, stores and more.

On Thursday, Aces Lounge will be the site of the local Twestival, one of more than 175 taking place that day. Festivities get under way at 8 pm. The event is designed to bring together Twitter communities and raise money and awareness for charity: water, a nonprofit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations by funding sustainable clean water solutions in areas of greatest need.

The Austin Film Festival is officially on (we're headed over to the late night reception now!), and this year you can keep tabs on our festival adventures through the relatively new @AustinistFilm Twitter account. Keep an especially close eye this weekend, when we're likely to be really drunk and sassy. Stay digital friends with us after the fest is over, and we'll keep you up to date on Austin film news, events, tickets and gossip. Yay technology! [link]

Are you familiar with micro-blogging? We weren't, until we took the time to Google "Twitter," the word that seems to be on everyone's busy lips. Twitter is a social networking site that enables users to quickly (and briefly) update their blog and subscribers via SMS, IM or third party application. Updates are 140 characters or less, and while many Twitterers utilize the service for relaying meaningless information regarding their day to day life, a few of them have found that passing along information in the form of short link-based posts, event notifications or emergency situation news items. The Los Angeles Fire Dept. uses Twitter as a means of communication - a lesson they learned after the 2007 wildfires. Democratic presidential candidates John Edwards and Barack Obama both use Twitter, too.