Each month, Cleveland.com selects its Twitter Twenty to comment on topics with the #CLE20 hashtag. (logo from facebook.com/clevelandcom)

With Twitter celebrating its 5th birthday today, I was happy to get my own Tweet-related present: being selected as one of this month’s Cleveland Twitter Twenty!

The Twitter Twenty is a program created by cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer that’s now in its third month.  Each month, twenty Clevelanders on Twitter are chosen to weigh in on different local issues.

A new question is posed each week and the Twenty will comment on it using the Twitter hashtag #CLE20. Anyone else can weigh in on the conversation by using the hashtag, but the Twenty’s comments will be featured online at: cleveland.com/twitter-twenty and also used in The Plain Dealer each Friday on page A-2. Topics range from the light and entertaining like Cleveland movies to more serious issues such as rebuilding the Cleveland region to hold onto a younger workforce.

In addition to myself (@ADHicken), this month’s Twitter Twenty include:

• aberinthecleve
• april_ingle
• bryangarvin
• BuckeyezBest
• cindilou19
• cleshopaholic
• CrookdRiverWmn
• davemontague
• gregbellan
• Kopniske
• MaryLeeS
• MildlyRelevant
• minorCLE
• OHmommy
• PatriciaKellogg
• sos_jr
• TonyMazur
• UnitedWayCLE
• wsccenter

Our group’s first topic is ‘Spring Has Sprung‘ – exploring the different things Clevelanders do to shed ‘Old Man Winter’ and celebrate the beginning of Spring.  Follow along with the conversation by watching the #CLE20 hashtag and feel free to add your thoughts with your hashtagged tweets!

If you’d like to be considered for a future month’s Twitter Twenty, direct message @denisep (Denise Polverine) or @dawgpndgirl (Alana Munro).

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Can’t get enough Twitter-related fun? Don’t forget to join @KaseyCrabtree, @KimiKay and me on Thursday, 5-9pm at AMP 150 for TwestivalCLE. It’s an extended happy hour featuring food and drink specials as well as a Chinese Auction. Admission to the event is a $10 donation to We Run This City youth marathon program.

For more information, to buy tickets or to donate to We Run This City if you can’t make it, visit www.cleveland.twestival.com or follow @TwestivalCLE.