It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

1. Liberal Left: why I’m underwhelmed (55 comments) by Mark Pack
2. Why Liberal Left? (80 comments) by Linda Jack
3. New Liberal Reform group to launch today (35 comments) by Zadok Day
4. This week’s council by-election results: Lib Dems GAIN in Towcester (14 comments) by Helen Duffett
5. Opinion: left-leaning Lib Dems should be united, pragmatic and positive (38 comments) by Mathew Hulbert

5 Lib Dem factions to watch

1. Lib Dem Friends of Cake
2. LD Friend of Biscuit
3. Lib Dem Friends of Gingers
4. Lib Dem Rock & Metalheads
5. Liberal Marks

5 from the LDV archive

(17th February, 2007-11)

1. Lib Dems’ half-term report: gold stars from Simon Hughes – and Paul Waugh (6 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2011
2. Lamb’s challenge to Lansley: let’s get to grips with social care (0 comments) by The Voice, from 2010
3. Howard Dean to speak at Liberal Democrat Spring Conference (6 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2009
4. Opinion: How liberal are liberals obliged to be? (50 comments) by Marilyn Mason, from 2008
5. Stephen promises free nursery places for all two-year-olds (5 comments) by The Founding Editor, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

1. katie waring
2. liberal left
3. localism act
4. andrew stunell
5. connect lib dem

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

“Prove you are a human” @Twitter captchas say. Many have dyslexia, visual/hearing impairments etc that make captchas hard. We’re still human

— Holly (@bilibdemholly) February 16, 2012

Hello, my name’s Binny – I’m tweeting from your local #LibDems to ask if you’ve had time to go out and vote in today’s by-election?

— Ben Mathis (@binny_uk) February 16, 2012

Why did I agree to an 8am meeting the day after helping run a polling day? *looks up inserting caffeine into eyeballs*

— cbld (@cbld) February 17, 2012

It’s pretty impossible not to adore Mary Reid. Here’s her latest blog post on factions in the Lib Dems – good read maryreid.org.uk/blog/?q=node%2…

— Pimlicat (@pimlicat) February 17, 2012

Can’t sleep. Might set up Lib Dem Friends of Lib Dem Friends. I’m so meta like that.

— James Shaddock (@jpshaddock) February 14, 2012

If you are a Lib Dem who tweets, and would like to be added to Ryan’s Lib Dem Tweets aggregator, drop him an email at [email protected]

That’s it from the LDV Friday Five. Let the weekend commence in 5-4-3-2-1…