Did you know that there’s a growing and thriving community of lawyers, judges, law professors, and journalists on Twitter who are interested in and who cover news relating to appellate practice and the most recent noteworthy appellate court rulings? If not, then you should head to Twitter and search for the hashtag #AppellateTwitter.

I realize that Twitter has not only advantages but numerous potential disadvantages, that some older people may be uncomfortable with this sort of technology, and that for today’s youth Twitter has long been passé. And don’t even get me started about how some politicians cannot resist using Twitter to rant and rave about the very latest thing that has made them perturbed.