I'm sure his followers will make a big deal of Captain Change's rise to the top of Twitter's most-followed-feeds scoreboard. But, um, look at the rest of that list. Nearly as many people are tuned into Digg founder Kevin Rose's meticulously documented drinking problem. Note to Obama staffers: Whatever you do, don't enrage 56,661 Twitterers by announcing his VP choice to CNN before you tweet it. Then again, there are 228 times that many voters in the AFL-CIO, and they watch TV. Go for it.

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