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.......

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. ...