An almost unprecedented online experiment is occuring at this year's festival right now! We are seeing the power of twitter. For those that maybe are out of the loop, twitter is online social networking site that allows users to update what they are doing using 140 characters or less. This is called a tweet. How does this translate to the film festival? Twitter is connecting filmmakers, audience and programmers like never before. When you are in the whirlwind of a film festival, rushing to screenings, late night parties, overwhealmed by so many films in so little time, how do you keep up. This is where twitter is becoming a force to reckonded with. The power of the simple tweet means that there is a steady stream of real time news constantly being update all the time. But with so much information at your disposale how do you get to the good stuff? Here is a partial list of people on twitter to follow.

 Co-Director of The Toronto International Film Festival Cameron Bailey is tweeting up a storm. His user name is:

@CAMERON_TIFF

Here other other notable twitter accounts of the great folks behind the festival

@ALEX_TIFF Mr. Bailey's Assistant

@colingeddes  @mmadnesstiff Midnight Madness Programmer

@thompowers Documentary Programmer

@giovanna_tiff International Programmer

Here are some of filmmakers, actors, actresses to follow

@OfficialRomero The grandfather of the modern zombie, yes Mr. George A. Romero

@diablocody Oscar winner and writer of Jennifer's Body

@MrJonathanKing Dir of MM fave Black Sleep and This year's entry Under The Mountain

@juliavoth Actress of Bitch Slap 

@esotericam Actress of Bitch Slap

@simon_barrett MM alumni writer of Dead Birds

Here are some other people that you should definetly follow

@Larry411 He has written great information how how to festival

@inkcanada Screenwriter of Ginger Snaps and mentor to Canadian writers everywhere!

@MidnightCinema Audience Member 

This is only a very partial list but hopefully a great start to those looking for a great way to enhance this film festival. One last item of note when looking for tiff news on twitter use #tiff09 and you will see the real time news flow of these and many, many more twitter users caught up in the awesome bedlam of this year's film festival experience!

Tweet y'all later,

@RobertAMitchell

visit www.twitter.com to get started!