10 must-follow Vegas Twitter feeds

Las Vegas is all atwitter. Businesses throughout the valley, as well as most young people, regularly use the social media website twitter.com to send and receive 140-character messages. We went searching for the most interesting Twitter feeds.

As for twittering media outlets, we're obviously biased (although that won't stop us from recommending @reviewjournal for your breaking news needs and @Norm_Clarke for gossip). So we limited our list to nonjournalism feeds unique for their viewpoints, intelligence or useful links.

Below are 10 staff favorites. (Type twitter.com into your Internet browser, followed by "/" and then whatever comes after the "@"; for example, twitter.com/@reviewjournal)

1. @vegascourtesan: This provocateur purports to be an escort, and not the legal kind since she works in Clark County. "Squeeze boobs like you're testing fruit at the store," read a tweet on Feb. 2, "not like Gallagher the comedian testing fruit. K? Thanks!" In addition to prospective clients, tips also are apparently posted for herself: "Don'tjudgebyhotellocation
Don'tjudgebyhotellocation
Don'tjudgebyhotellocation." (Yikes.)

2. @GuyNSinCity: Former warehouse worker Marcus Mitchell pays it forward, using Twitter to give away casino comps and other gifts in honor of his wife, who died of stomach cancer in 2008. Recent randomly selected re-tweeters received a night at the Monte Carlo and a $50 bakery gift card.

3. @PennJillette: Most celebrities use Twitter only to announce upcoming TV, radio and live appearances. (In fact, some pay others to do it for them, like their laundry.) But a rare few, including the talking half of Penn & Teller, use Twitter as a diary and pulpit. Jillette's feed ushers readers behind the Rio's magic curtain and inside the mind of an outspoken libertarian and atheist. "When the big gun show was in town, our show sold like crazy and with the ACLU in town, it's filled up," Jillette tweeted on Jan. 29. "I like the freedom demographic."

4. @zappos: Tony Hsieh of zappos.com has the most popular Vegas-based feed, with nearly 1.8 million followers. We like to think it's because he's the coolest CEO. Not only is the online shoe magnate single-handedly saving downtown, but he peppers his feed with company e-mails and photos from meetings. And one of the articles to which he recently linked recommended napping on the job to boost productivity!

5. @workingthestrip: Thanks to this feed of links to help-wanted ads across the valley, only the Twitterless can now claim that no jobs are available in Las Vegas. New links are posted at least 10 times a day. (Remember, though: Only boost productivity with your eyes closed if you land a job with Zappos!)

6. @danawhite: The Ultimate Fighting Championship president earned nearly 1.3 million followers because he uses Twitter to give away tickets and merchandise, interact (and fight) with fans, and break UFC news. He can frequently be seen tweeting cageside from matches.

7. @VegasDegenerate: Knowledgeable advice with a twist of insanity emanates from this self-described limo driver and alcoholic (we hope not simultaneously). "It amazes me that people drink out of limo glasses," read a tweet from Jan. 29. "They stay in the car and I doubt they've ever been washed. Plus what I've seen in them."

8. @jayfenster: By day, he's a mild-mannered tweeter of positive banalities for 10 hotels. (Caesars Entertainment pays him to write all its Twitter feeds, making Fenster one of the world's only people benefiting financially from the process.) However, the "twitticisms" emanating from Fenster's personal feed outfunny those of most twittering stand-ups. "Dear everything in my closet: I hate you," he tweeted on Feb. 3.

9. @slidertruck: Popular mobile burger vendor Slidin' Thru tweets where to meet them at the lunch bell. (But try searching for any favorite restaurant. If it tweets, too, you could end up saving money via Twitter-only promotions.)

10. @hollymadison: Although readability suffers when the "Holly's World" star answers too many inane fan questions, it's difficult pretending not to care what Vegas' very own postmodern Marilyn is up to at any given moment. Madison, who has tweeted more than 6,000 times, claims that she's so addicted, she courted her current beau, punk-rocker Jack Barakat, almost entirely via the site.

Reporter Corey Levitan tweets at twitter.com/coreylevitan. Contact him at clevitan@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0456.