More than half of Twitter’s nearly 200 million users have signed up in the past 18 months. And the spike in ski racing-related tweets was likewise plain for even the most casual observer. Many of our sport’s most prominent athletes are now regularly employing the platform to communicate with fans and each other.

Here, we bring you the year’s best North American ski racing tweets in five very serious categories (compiled and elaborated upon by Twitter newbie, @Bryce_Hubner) ... [read more]