One thing to understand about Twitter: you can follow someone without their permission, unless they have set their profile so that they have to approve you [which is rarely the case].
This means that you can get someone's Twitter handle, find them on Twitter and click "follow" and if it doesn't give you the privacy notice, you're following them and what they have to say in 140 characters or less.
For instance, check out Anderson Cooper's Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/andersoncooper -- he's got 6173 followers, but he's only following 7 people. Because in order to have a relationship on Twitter, the other person has to follow you back.
This is in response to Peter Himler's otherwise very good post on Twitter, where you can find more links to journos on Twitter that you can follow and maybe have a Twitter relationship with.
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