Happy Friday! To wrap up the past week, we thought we’d offer a wee list of our favourite finds on Twitter this past week:

There’s been much talk, recently, about the best ways for marketers to engage members of the Twittersphere. This is understandable given the (more than) considerable growth of the famous microblogging service over the past year and a half. In the scramble to achieve success using this hot new medium, many marketers have lost time and dollars trying to decipher the magical algorithm. Bloggers, however, remain a mainstay of the intelligent marketer’s arsenal.

Hello. I am from the Internet. My name is Chris, and I now work at Invoke. I like long walks on the beach, fireplace sing-a-longs — and above all — YouTube videos of cute kittens. For the past three months, I have interned at Invoke… and now, I work here!

Gerri Elder is a one-woman force in social media. When she’s not busy with her nearly 5-year-old son, Gerri maintains a healthy and active following on Twitter as AbsolutelyTrue, which is also the name of her popular blog, and was briefly the number one Digger last month–one of the few women to have accomplished such a feat. Gerri’s active on Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Mixx.

On February 20th, we posted a blog entry about how Twitter affects Digg. The post was timely, had a short, direct title and was about a hot-button topic. (Stay tuned for an upcoming post on the ingredients of a good blog entry.) The following is a by-the-numbers look at how a blog entry goes from being posted to becoming well-read on the Internet.