For as long as we’ve been interacting with financial advisors, we’ve been struck by a quality that we suspect they themselves take for granted: They’re people people. They like to mix, they’re genuinely interested in what motivates others and they’ve found a way to draw on those qualities for their livelihood.

AdvisorTweets.com is a showcase for advisors’ skill at connecting. We’re seeing advisors connect with one another and with Twitter accounts belonging to the media, a few asset managers, other corporate entities, friends, contacts, the charities they support, etc.

More to the point, a steady monitoring of the Twitter stream provides a measure of who someone is. We get a sense of each Twitter-using advisor through their interactions, their content selections and even their word choices.

On this day before Thanksgiving, we just want to say thank you.

The best financial advisors are pillars of their community, and now the online community has expectations of advisors who are included in the AdvisorTweets universe and profiled on other sites. Thank you, advisors, for living up to our expectations when we developed this site.

Thanksgiving is a traditional holiday for celebrating community and giving thanks. When I join my family and relatives around the physical table tomorrow, I want you to know that I’ll be giving thanks for this community, too.

Enjoy your feast. We look forward to following your wit and wisdom when you get back to business.