When the 83rd Legislative Session gavels in tomorrow, the tweets will fly fast and furious — not that they didn't during the interim, and especially during the height of election season. Twitter is as much a fact of life these for most Texas House and Senate members as email newsletters or old-fashioned ink-on-paper correspondence, and it's maybe the best way to keep up with them in real time as the dog days of January give way to the hair-on-fire days of May.

In addition to the news and data and events we provide here at the Trib, we're also big on connecting you with the people who represent you. So we're pleased to provide a Twitter list of the handles of the 120 state lawmakers who do the communications thing 140 characters at a time. (Yes, you're reading that right: One-third of the 181-member legislature isn't on Twitter. In 2013. You could have knocked me over with an avatar. We're hoping more members hop on the bandwagon before too long, and we encourage them or their staffers to let us know if/when they do.)

Follow one, some or all. It's best, we've found, not to let them out of your sight for too long.

Texas Senate Twitter Handles

Name District Newly Elected? Twitter Username Birdwell, Brian 22 SenatorBirdwell Campbell, Donna 25 X DonnaCampbellTX Carona, John 16 JohnCarona Davis, Wendy 10 WendyDavisTexas Deuell, Robert "Bob" 2 bobdeuell Duncan, Robert 28 senatorduncan Ellis, Rodney 13 rodneyellis Estes, Craig 30 EstesForTexas Hancock, Kelly 9 X KHancock4TX Hegar, Glenn 18 Glenn_Hegar Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" 20 TxChuy Huffman, Joan 17 JoanHuffman Lucio Jr., Eddie 27 SenatorLucio Nelson, Jane 12 SenJaneNelson Patrick, Dan 7 DanPatrick Paxton, Ken 8 X SenKenPaxton Rodríguez, José R. 29 Josefortexas Schwertner, Charles 5 X DrSchwertner Seliger, Kel 31 kseliger Taylor, Larry 11 X Taylor4Senate Uresti, Carlos "Charlie" 19 CarlosUresti Van de Putte, Leticia 26 leticiavdp Watson, Kirk 14 KirkPWatson West, Royce 23 SenRoyceWest Williams, Tommy 4 texansfortommy Zaffirini, Judith 21 JudithZaffirini

Texas House Twitter Handles

Name District Newly Elected? Twitter Username Alvarado, Carol 145 alvaradoforSD6 Anchia, Rafael 103 RafaelAnchia Aycock, Jimmie Don 54 Aycockjda Bell, Cecil 3 X CBellJr Bonnen, Dennis 25 dbonnen Bonnen, Greg 24 X DrGregBonnen Branch, Dan 108 texansfordan Burkett, Cindy 113 cindyburkett_tx Burnam, Lon 90 lonburnam Button, Angie Chen 112 angiechenbutton Canales, Terry 40 X TerryCanales40 Capriglione, Giovanni 98 X VoteGiovanni Carter, Stefani 102 stefani_carter Clardy, Travis 11 X travisfortexas Coleman, Garnet 147 GFColeman Collier, Nicole 95 X NicoleCollier95 Cortez, Philip 117 X CortezPhilip Creighton, Brandon 16 RepCreighton Crownover, Myra 64 MyraCrownover Dale, Tony 136 X TonyDaleTX Davis, Sarah 134 SarahforHD134 Deshotel, Joe 22 RepJoeDeshotel Eiland, Craig 23 CraigEiland Fallon, Pat 106 X FallonForTexas Farias, Joe 118 RepJoeFarias Farney, Marsha 20 X DrMarshaFarney Farrar, Jessica Cristina 148 jfarrardist148 Fletcher, Allen 130 AllenFletcher Flynn, Dan 2 Dan_Flynn Frullo, John 84 FrulloForTexas Geren, Charlie 99 charliegeren Goldman, Craig 97 X GoldmanCraig Gonzales, Larry 52 larrygonzales52 Gonzàlez, Mary 75 X RepMaryGonzalez Gonzalez, Naomi R. 76 votenaomi Gooden, Lance 4 RepLanceGooden Guerra, Robert "Bobby" 41 BobbyGuerraRGV Guillen, Ryan 31 RyanGuillen Gutierrez, Roland 119 RolandG119 Harless, Patricia 126 PatriciaHarless Harper-Brown, Linda 105 lhbcampaign Hilderbran, Harvey 53 RepHilderbran Howard, Donna 48 DonnaHowardTX Huberty, Dan 127 DanHuberty Hughes, Bryan 5 RepHughes Hunter, Todd 32 toddahunter Isaac, Jason A. 45 ISAACforTexas Johnson, Eric 100 JohnsonForTexas Kacal, Kyle 12 X KyleKacal King, Ken 88 X KingForTexas King, Phil 61 PhilKingTX Kleinschmidt, Tim 17 RepKleinschmidt Klick, Stephanie 91 X StephanieKlick Kolkhorst, Lois 13 loisfortexas Krause, Matt 93 X RepMattKrause Larson, Lyle 122 RepLyleLarson Lavender, George 1 teamlavender Leach, Jeff 67 X leachfortexas Longoria, Oscar 35 X OscarLongoria35 Lucio III, Eddie 38 TXRepE3 Marquez, Marisa 77 MarisaMarquez Martinez Fischer, Trey 116 TMFtx McClendon, Ruth Jones 120 Ruth_McClendon Menéndez, José 124 Menendez4Texas Miller, Rick 26 X vote4rick Moody, Joseph 78 X moodyforelpaso Muñoz Jr., Sergio 36 SergioMunozJr Murphy, Jim 133 JimMurphy133 Naishtat, Elliott 49 ElliottNaishtat Nevarez, Alfred "Poncho" 74 X poncho_nevarez Oliveira, Rene 37 ReneOOliveira Paddie, Chris 9 X chrispaddie Parker, Tan 63 tparker63 Patrick, Diane 94 Diane4Texas Perez, Mary Ann 144 X votemaryann Perry, Charles 83 electcharles Pitts, Jim 10 RepJimPitts Price, Walter T. "Four" 87 FourPriceTX Raney, John 14 ElectJohnRaney Raney, John 14 X ElectJohnRaney Ratliff, Bennett 115 X BennettRatliff Raymond, Richard Peňa 42 RepPenaRaymond Reynolds, Ron 27 ronereynolds Riddle, Debbie 150 debbieriddle Rodriguez, Eddie 51 TXRepERodriguez Rodriguez, Justin 125 X RepJRod Sanford, Scott 70 X Scott_SanfordTX Sheets, Kenneth 107 ‏ RepKenSheets Sheffield, J.D. 59 X dr_sheffield Sheffield, Ralph 197 texassheffield Simmons, Ron 65 X RonSimmonsTexas Simpson, David 7 davidsimpsontx Springer, Drew 68 X DrewSpringer Stickland, Jonathan 92 X RepStickland Straus, Joe 121 SpeakerStraus Taylor, Van 66 RepVanTaylor Toth, Steve 15 X Toth_4_Texas Thompson, Ed 29 x RepEdThompson Turner, Chris 101 ChrisGTurner Turner, Scott 33 X ScottTurnerTX Turner, Sylvester 139 SylvesterTurner Villalba, Jason 114 X JasonVillalba Villarreal, Mike 123 MikeVillarreal Walle, Armando 140 RepWalle White, James 19 James_E_White Workman, Paul 47 paulworkman Wu, Gene 137 X GeneforTexas Zedler, Bill 96 bill_zedler Zerwas, John 28 RepJohnZerwas