Finding Lawyers on Twitter: Two Directories Fall Out of Date But a Third is Very Cool
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When lawyers who are new to Twitter ask me how to find other lawyers to follow, I point them to either of two directories, LexTweet, operated by the folks at legal blog company LexBlog, and LegalBirds, part of the Justia legal portal. Both of these enable you to find lawyers on Twitter by popularity and location. In addition, LegalBirds organizes them by practice areas, so if you want to find an estate-planning lawyer on Twitter, you can.
However, I was surprised to notice that neither of these sites is up-to-date on Twitter “stats” — most notably, number of followers. The number of followers someone has on Twitter does not matter much in the real world, but it can be an indication of whether the person is worth following. Plus, both sites list lawyers by number of followers.
Consider Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, who LegalBirds lists as the lawyer with the most followers and LexTweet lists as #5. As of this writing, Lessig has 266,959 followers, but LegalBirds has the number at 229,155 and LexTweet has half the actual number, 127,612.
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