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Examples: 

BarackObama. (2009a, July 15). Launched American 
    Graduation Initiative to help additional 5 mill. 
    Americans graduate college by 2020: http://bit.ly/gcTX7
    [Twitter post]. Retrieved from 
    http://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/2651151366 

Barack Obama. (2009b, October 9). Humbled. 
     http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/
     post/obamaforamerica/gGM45m 
     [Facebook update]. Retrieved from http://www.
     facebook.com/posted.php?id=6815841748&
     share_id=154954250775&comments=1#s
    154954250775 

MLA requires that any electronic source is citing as a Web Publication. Make sure to include Web in the citation.

Include this information:

• Author and/or editor names (if available)
• Article name in quotation marks (if applicable)
• Title of the Website, project, or book in italics. (Remember that some Print publications have Web publications with slightly different names. They may, for example, include the additional information or otherwise modified information, like domain names [e.g. .com or .net].)
• Any version numbers available, including revisions, posting dates, volumes, or issue numbers.
• Publisher information, including the publisher name and publishing date.
• Take note of any page numbers (if available).
• Date you accessed the material.
• URL (if required, or for your own personal reference)

Format:

Editor, screen name, author, or compiler name (if available). “Posting Title.” Name of Site. Version number (if available). Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher). Medium of publication. Date of access.

Use the date accessed for older MLA style and do not use the date accessed for new MLA style. 

Examples for Twitter:

Twitter handle. Web log post. Twitter.com. Date posted. Web. Date accessed. < web address >