My favorite is writer Warren Ellis who posts frequently and always hilarious. His feed is the only one I backtrack to make sure I didn’t miss any posts.
IndiMonk
on 01 Jul 08
I enjoy Diggnation a lot, so – http://www.twitter.com/kevinrose and http://twitter.com/alexalbrecht
It’s an odd thing, for the most part, I only follow folks I actually know, whether in person or online. Twitter is rampant on our large-ish staff, so it’s a nice way to keep track of our culture and stay in the loop. It seems to add the most value to me in terms of actual personal relationships.
The major exception to that would of course be twitter.com/CobraCommander. I follow him because I am a huge nerd.
We’ve been slow with updates to our twitter feed due to some tech obstacles but we hope to be back to full time tweeting soon. In the meanwhile, we’re curious to see what others are digging there.
So far, I’ve had no desire to use Twitter. I don’t follow anybody, I don’t use it myself.
Call me an outlier, but I just don’t see the point. There is no one I know (online or in real life) who I want to be so constantly updated on that checking their blog at my leisure won’t do the trick.
I don’t doubt that most people find Twitter fascinating, but I do not.
I’m too busy working on my book (hat tip to Sarah and Jason). “Then the DVD…”
Adam
on 01 Jul 08
without doubt: http://twitter.com/darthvader
consistently funny.
David Andersen
on 01 Jul 08
Twitter seems like yet another escalation in narcissism. Most of what I’ve seen are people broadcasting meaningless trivia about themselves. What’s the point? How did civilization survive without knowing that Johnny Hotster was having a bagel on 5th street or that he just downloaded Coldplay’s latest single? Who cares?
Yeah, call me a troll, I don’t care.
Oh, by the way, I just pulled up my socks. I think I’ll go eat a sandwich now.
I would have to chime-in for twitter.com/zeldman. A few of my favorites are 1 and 2. His tweets on raising a child, travel, and NY are classic.
Sam
on 01 Jul 08
Going for the “little known” angle instead of the super-popular stuff I’m seeing here, I recently saw http://twitter.com/inthefuture and thought it was a funny idea.
hmmm…. can’t make up my mind between twitter.com/fakebarackobama and twitter.com/facejohnmccain. Seriously though, my favs are just individual people I know that are funny.
Some of the ones on this comment thread are great!
http://twitter.com/chrisbrogan tons of tips and seem like a nice guy !
Mike
on 01 Jul 08
@fireland – Quirky humor, sometimes a bit PG-13, but always funny
Anonymous Coward
on 01 Jul 08
http://twitter.com/Veronica _
Steven Walker
on 01 Jul 08
Merlin Mann @hotdogsladies I like his quip like banter. Its a quick and always witty jest about the day to day. Funny. Kinda like www.fullquip.com Love the idea of making someone laugh in one sentence.
“We’ve been slow with updates to our twitter feed due to some tech obstacles but we hope to be back to full time tweeting soon. In the meanwhile, we’re curious to see what others are digging there.”
Are those tech obstacles related to twitter being developed using the Rails framework?
Steve S.
on 01 Jul 08
There’s a great list of 50+ Designers to follow over at – http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/social-media/designers-on-twitter/
I enjoy @zeldman, @meyerweb, @vpieters (Veerle), @tonychester (OnWired), & @markboulton
Keith
on 01 Jul 08
It is very interesting checking out some of these twitter feeds. Good suggestions! Keep em coming!
I would have to say that my favorite Twitter feed is that of John Gruber’s wife, Amy Jane Gruber. That woman is absolutely hysterical! I need to write a script that automatically favorites every one of her tweets. Good stuff!
http://twitter.com/AmyJane
...John, your Twitter feed ain’t so bad either. :-)
I work for a small, progressive consulting company who bought into my visions of starting a blog and Twitter feed under the company name. So, with S v. N as my inspiration (the best company blog out there, IMHO) I started my employer’s Twitter feed and blog in the hopes that they become something that’s a mix of Daring Fireball, S v. N, Scoble and a few of the better ZDNet business blogs/feeds, all wrapped into one.
There’s a right way and wrong way to do things, and I’m hoping I’m doing things the right way in order to attract an intelligent audience.
Merlin Mann and SoupySales as others have said. Besides people I know in real life, I’m on Twitter for the little jokes that get thrown around throughout the day. For that I recommend Favrd.com (as someone said that the top)—check out the tweets that are featured here and pretty soon you will find some great people to follow.
Another vote for @AmyJane – I make a point of looking at her page once a day when I need a laugh (she’s smart, sarcastic and funny as hell). Also @scottsimpson (found via @Gruber) – ditto on the funny.
I have good internet access only at work so when I knock off, I still get an idea of what the tech community is talking about via sms, without getting too many duplicates of the same story.
Receiving sms tweets is free in Africa, FYI.
Larry
on 02 Jul 08
I like the short and snappy wine reviews by Small Sips. The cool thing about the review format is that they are automagically picked up by Loudervoice.com.
There’s more to Twitter than laughs (though there is that).
Andy Carvin (@acarvin) does new media for National Public Radio and tweets through tech conferences and presidential campaign events.
@NewMediaJim is a cameraman in the NBC Washington Bureau and is nearly always in interesting places. You can watch the Nightly News and tell friends and family how hard it was to get that shot.
Cookbook is awesome! An entire recipe in 140 characters or less. The creativity in abbreviating and in finding simple recipes is genius. An excellent example of how constraints force creativity.
@Gruber usually has some interesting background info for Daring Fireball, but his wife, @AmyJane, has some of the best tweets out there. If I had to choose between them, I’d keep Amy Jane in the feed.
Of course, some of her best tweets are the words and actions of their son, Jonas. But she sticks to the ‘A’ material, leaving out the annoying cutesy stuff that a lot of new parents get overly excited about.
Also, @HotDogsLadies and @SoupySales always keep me laughing. I don’t know if Soupy Sales is the real deal or not, but I like to believe that it is. (And if it isn’t him, I’d rather not know.)
I use Twitter primarily for local community connection, with about 300 people in the Bloomington, Indiana area using the service in some capacity.
For new information from people not in the area, I tend to rely on Twine and blogs more than Twitter. However, I find the most relevant tweets coming from
I would add http://twitter.com/comicmix to that list, but they follow no one and use Twitter purely as an RSS feed.
Vicky H
on 03 Jul 08
I use twitter for quite a few things.
1. Follow early, early adopters and get their opinions on new things (within a day or two).
2. Follow other people interested in the same technologies, discussions, ect..
3. Fun stuff (raising hell)
4. Local newspaper, social listings in my city. Finding local people also.
5. Hear about peoples posts when their just put up, commenting early & being part of an almost live conversation.
6. Hearing what others (not competitors, but people in the same area) are doing, writing about, experimenting with, ect..
7. Reading posts/articles recommended instead of plowing through the s*it. There almost always brand new to 2 days old. Better than something written 6 mos. ago.
8. Quick answers to questions about almost anything.
9. Listening to other peoples crazy, intrepid conversations while reading my own.
10. Very good for small business seeking to get recommendations, meet others, what works, ect.
daelx
on 05 Jul 08
I like YouQuoted They tend to select a great quotes or two everyday. Nice to get that random motivation when I didn’t even know I needed it.
At work we use a private Twitter account with all of our Beanstalk SVN projects tied into it, so the developers can all keep track of commits without the messages cluttering up Basecamp.
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Ross
on 01 Jul 08I’ve been using Favrd for a while – which is usually worth a laugh or two.
Other than that – nothing! I’m interested to see what people post up as I’m relatively new to the Twitter scene.
Ben
on 01 Jul 08My favorite was http://twitter.com/37signals
... until they stopped updating/posting to it.
Ross
on 01 Jul 08Oh snap I mis-understood what you meant by feed :P
Zeldman (of zeldman.com) is on mine.
I’d read 37S (and it’s members) if it updated more regulary than the blog (and with different content) :)
Ryan
on 01 Jul 08I really love http://twitter.com/techmemefh – great way to keep up on tech news.
Garrett Murray
on 01 Jul 08Personally, I enjoy Hobo Jones and his wacky adventures:
http://twitter.com/hobojones
Wade Winningham
on 01 Jul 08My favorite is writer Warren Ellis who posts frequently and always hilarious. His feed is the only one I backtrack to make sure I didn’t miss any posts.
IndiMonk
on 01 Jul 08I enjoy Diggnation a lot, so – http://www.twitter.com/kevinrose and http://twitter.com/alexalbrecht
Darrin
on 01 Jul 08Roz Savage – a non-tech Twitterer rowing across the Pacific Ocean.
Bryce
on 01 Jul 08ShaniquaB is kind of a non-work-safe collaborative art project I like to follow.
Jack
on 01 Jul 08it’s not even close: someecards
John
on 01 Jul 08http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix
Because that’s where I heard we had Ice on Mars. It just honestly boggles my mind to think we’ve got man-made stuff on another planet.
The team keeps the feed updated well (and even answers the occasional question).
Fascinating.
Joshua Blankenship
on 01 Jul 08It’s an odd thing, for the most part, I only follow folks I actually know, whether in person or online. Twitter is rampant on our large-ish staff, so it’s a nice way to keep track of our culture and stay in the loop. It seems to add the most value to me in terms of actual personal relationships.
The major exception to that would of course be twitter.com/CobraCommander. I follow him because I am a huge nerd.
Jon Gretar Borgthorsson
on 01 Jul 08Aprat from @JonGretar of course ;), I like @MarsPhoenix, @giagia, @starstryder and @BadAstronomer. Mostly because I’m a bit of a science/astronomy buff. I also like following the Revision3 people to grow my inner geek.
ML
on 01 Jul 08My favorite was http://twitter.com/37signals
We’ve been slow with updates to our twitter feed due to some tech obstacles but we hope to be back to full time tweeting soon. In the meanwhile, we’re curious to see what others are digging there.
Kyle Maxwell
on 01 Jul 08Directly, http://twitter.com/matthewbaldwin is great. But I use RSS feeds of summize.com searches for several things.
Jared McFarland
on 01 Jul 08The tweets I look forward to the most are:
Jepch Jacques Heather Cee Sam Stephenson
Nathan Clark
on 01 Jul 08Blankenship’s must be an evil nerd – http://twitter.com/generalhawk is the way to go for the good guys.
http://twitter.com/rawkhawk is good for twittered album reviews too.
Jeff
on 01 Jul 08Tech obstacles? You have a browser, right? If not, you should totally download Firefox or something.
Rick
on 01 Jul 08Life of a frustrated web designer @masuga
Mark
on 01 Jul 08RUWTsevere – it’s like your friend that screams into the phone telling you to turn on the game.
Keith
on 01 Jul 08I enjoy blogs, but for some reason I just don’t “get” twitter. Joshua mentioned staying attuned to “culture” through it.
I’d love to hear how folks are specifically finding value through twitter vs. blogs or other communication tools.
I am admittedly just not in the know on the appeal of Twitter because I think I just haven’t had someone explain it and the various uses for it!
Rick
on 01 Jul 08I really like @winetweets. Lots of wine recommendations.
Phil Dokas
on 01 Jul 08http://twitter.com/lowflyingrocks so I can get an SMS four hours after the giant asteroid hits!
But seriously, my hosting company Segpub has a twitter account and it’s a wonderful way to get status updates pushed to me.
Chris Lloyd
on 01 Jul 08_why
Craig Kocur
on 01 Jul 08http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies
Merlin makes me laugh out loud.
DHS
on 01 Jul 08textism: witty, not too much @chat.
Anonymous Coward
on 01 Jul 08@SH What about automatically tweet you last blog posts ? I wrote a howto on my blog, there :
http://kevinbongart.net/blog/2008/02/15/mettre-son-twitter-a-jour-en-fonction-de-son-statut-facebook/
It’s for Facebook statuses, but it also works with other RSS feeds.
Michael Erb
on 01 Jul 08Zeldman (zeldman) and Hockenberry (of Twitterrific fame) are hilarious
Kevin
on 01 Jul 08@SH What about automatically tweet you last blog posts ? I wrote a howto on my blog, there :
http://kevinbongart.net/blog/2008/02/15/mettre-son-twitter-a-jour-en-fonction-de-son-statut-facebook/
It’s for Facebook statuses, but it also works with other RSS feeds.
Raphael Campardou
on 01 Jul 08I like @rands, @gruber & @ilovetypography.
I don’t really like corporate feeds, including 37signals; for me, Twitter is a more human flow. I’d love to see 37s employees’ feeds though.
doug
on 01 Jul 08Def hotdogsladies aka Merlin Mann http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies
Ryan J. Markel
on 01 Jul 08The Amazon mp3 Daily Deal, where a tweet is posted when an album goes on sale for some ridiculous price like $1.99 or $2.99.
PJ Cabrera
on 01 Jul 08My favorite Twiiter feed is the fail whale. You see it at every Twitter URL, all the time!
LOL, seriously now. Why would I follow a feed at a site that’s down? Get a clue, get on FriendFeed
Will
on 01 Jul 08So far, I’ve had no desire to use Twitter. I don’t follow anybody, I don’t use it myself.
Call me an outlier, but I just don’t see the point. There is no one I know (online or in real life) who I want to be so constantly updated on that checking their blog at my leisure won’t do the trick.
I don’t doubt that most people find Twitter fascinating, but I do not.
Just my 2 cents – not trying to troll.
Chad Crowell
on 01 Jul 08Second for hotdogsladies (Merlin) and also love soupysales for a laugh.
Jeremiah Staes
on 01 Jul 08I have to echo @hotdogsladies he’s hilarious.
Jemaleddin S. Cole
on 01 Jul 08fireland – hysterical.
David Whittle
on 01 Jul 08Joseph Kimojino’s tweets from the Masai Mara put the chatter into perspective. http://twitter.com/maratriangle
Chris Jones
on 01 Jul 08Codinghorror – http://twitter.com/codinghorror Wil Shipley – http://twitter.com/wilshipley Wil Wheaton – http://twitter.com/wilw
Bruce Stewart
on 01 Jul 08I (@bas1809) am a fan of @gapingvoid. His travels to and from the back of beyond in Alpine, TX are always engaging, as is his cartooning and art.
FredS
on 01 Jul 08Zeldman is pretty entertaining.
Alex M
on 01 Jul 08@Keith: There’s nothing to get. People use it because most mobile devices are poorly designed and have lame browsers.
It’s a blog restricted to very small posts, essentially just a single hyper link or facebook-style status update. It’s for people with CrackBerry’s.
That aside, I would recommend: Max Gladwell for his tweets on social media and green living.
Happy White Man
on 01 Jul 08I enjoy following twitter.com/iTod. He updates regularly with news about Fluid.app.
Thom
on 01 Jul 08@towerbridge is a wonderful example of why twitter is great. (likewise @marsphoenix) @warrenellis is always hilarious
Don Schenck
on 01 Jul 08@Will: Hear, hear.
I’m too busy working on my book (hat tip to Sarah and Jason). “Then the DVD…”
Adam
on 01 Jul 08without doubt: http://twitter.com/darthvader
consistently funny.
David Andersen
on 01 Jul 08Twitter seems like yet another escalation in narcissism. Most of what I’ve seen are people broadcasting meaningless trivia about themselves. What’s the point? How did civilization survive without knowing that Johnny Hotster was having a bagel on 5th street or that he just downloaded Coldplay’s latest single? Who cares?
Yeah, call me a troll, I don’t care.
Oh, by the way, I just pulled up my socks. I think I’ll go eat a sandwich now.
Brent
on 01 Jul 08nivi because he consistently makes me stop and think about what i’m doing. and andy_house because it is weird.
Corey
on 01 Jul 08Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) is my fav to follow.
http://twitter.com/codinghorror
he updates all day long with witty and interesting tweets
Aaron Quinn
on 01 Jul 08I would have to chime-in for twitter.com/zeldman. A few of my favorites are 1 and 2. His tweets on raising a child, travel, and NY are classic.
Sam
on 01 Jul 08Going for the “little known” angle instead of the super-popular stuff I’m seeing here, I recently saw http://twitter.com/inthefuture and thought it was a funny idea.
CB
on 01 Jul 08twitter.com/syted – daily dose of pithy quotes.
Ro
on 01 Jul 08hmmm…. can’t make up my mind between twitter.com/fakebarackobama and twitter.com/facejohnmccain. Seriously though, my favs are just individual people I know that are funny.
Some of the ones on this comment thread are great!
Rachael Hampton
on 01 Jul 08http://twitter.com/chrisbrogan tons of tips and seem like a nice guy !
Mike
on 01 Jul 08@fireland – Quirky humor, sometimes a bit PG-13, but always funny
Anonymous Coward
on 01 Jul 08http://twitter.com/Veronica _
Steven Walker
on 01 Jul 08Merlin Mann @hotdogsladies I like his quip like banter. Its a quick and always witty jest about the day to day. Funny. Kinda like www.fullquip.com Love the idea of making someone laugh in one sentence.
Jeff Woelker
on 01 Jul 08Does Friendfeed count? At least it’s up.
If not, I check out Leo Laporte’s: http://twitter.com/leolaporte
Or there’s mine :) http://twitter.com/JeffWoelker
jan korbel
on 01 Jul 08To choose one, it would be @hotdogsladies. Closely behind is @gruber.
Xavier
on 01 Jul 08@ML (37signals)
Are those tech obstacles related to twitter being developed using the Rails framework?
Steve S.
on 01 Jul 08There’s a great list of 50+ Designers to follow over at – http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/social-media/designers-on-twitter/
I enjoy @zeldman, @meyerweb, @vpieters (Veerle), @tonychester (OnWired), & @markboulton
Keith
on 01 Jul 08It is very interesting checking out some of these twitter feeds. Good suggestions! Keep em coming!
Scott Purdie
on 01 Jul 08http://twitter.com/jeffpulver is always great for a reality check and some useful advice.
Chris
on 01 Jul 08I keep my list of followers down, but here’s a few lesser knowns that I enjoy:
http://twitter.com/sambrown http://twitter.com/danbenjamin
And a mad scientist that I is dead funny:
http://twitter.com/dezene
Benedict
on 01 Jul 08@garvee – Gary Vaynerchuk always has energetic tweets
also, who knew, John Cleese is on twitter too @JohnCleese definitely would like to see him tweet more
Jason DiMambro
on 01 Jul 08I would have to say that my favorite Twitter feed is that of John Gruber’s wife, Amy Jane Gruber. That woman is absolutely hysterical! I need to write a script that automatically favorites every one of her tweets. Good stuff!
http://twitter.com/AmyJane
...John, your Twitter feed ain’t so bad either. :-)
Travis Schmeisser
on 01 Jul 08I too have to vote for http://twitter.com/CobraCommander He always inserts a proper amount of ridiculous into my day.
Chris Ricca
on 01 Jul 08@fredwilson consistently engages in great conversations with the people around him. I recommend a follow.
John Topley
on 01 Jul 08Darth Vader of course! http://twitter.com/darthvader
Bronwyn Jones
on 01 Jul 08London’s Tower Bridge: http://twitter.com/towerbridge
I find its constancy quite soothing.
“I am opening…” “I am closing…” “I am opening…” “I am closing…”
Jed
on 01 Jul 08@cybersechs because i need more romance in my life
Jeff Ventura
on 01 Jul 08I work for a small, progressive consulting company who bought into my visions of starting a blog and Twitter feed under the company name. So, with S v. N as my inspiration (the best company blog out there, IMHO) I started my employer’s Twitter feed and blog in the hopes that they become something that’s a mix of Daring Fireball, S v. N, Scoble and a few of the better ZDNet business blogs/feeds, all wrapped into one.
There’s a right way and wrong way to do things, and I’m hoping I’m doing things the right way in order to attract an intelligent audience.
On a personal level, my favorite feeds are John Gruber, Daniel Jalkut and Steve Rubel.
emdot
on 01 Jul 08Merlin Mann and SoupySales as others have said. Besides people I know in real life, I’m on Twitter for the little jokes that get thrown around throughout the day. For that I recommend Favrd.com (as someone said that the top)—check out the tweets that are featured here and pretty soon you will find some great people to follow.
Some recent faves: Heather Champ, FarkerPeaceBoy, and Apelad.
Al Abut
on 01 Jul 08And another vote for Fireland. It’s the genuinely funny and twisted shit I wish I could come up with.
His interview on Dooce is a classic as well: http://dooce.com/2008/06/12/apologies-advance-mr-hamilton
Jane Quigley
on 01 Jul 08Another vote for @AmyJane – I make a point of looking at her page once a day when I need a laugh (she’s smart, sarcastic and funny as hell). Also @scottsimpson (found via @Gruber) – ditto on the funny.
dusoft
on 01 Jul 08I am rather new to the whole Twitter thing, but Zeldman does it for me.
Bruno Miranda
on 01 Jul 08I follow http://www.twitter.com/tastyplanner for the awesome food articles.
Mark
on 01 Jul 08Without a doubt, for social media busines and reflection, a Twitter in english and in french : http://twitter.com/jeanlucr
Nancy
on 02 Jul 08I like http://twitter.com/kenburnstein for funny Haiku
Jordan Wollman
on 02 Jul 08I personally follow:
http://twitter.com/guykawasaki
http://twitter.com/SethGodin
http://twitter.com/Twitterrific <—My favorite Twitter App
http://twitter.com/jeffwollman <—Going to be huge
And of course, my personal favorite ;)
http://twitter.com/jordanwollman <—Shameless self promotion
Larry
on 02 Jul 08Ok, I get some applications of twitter, like the bridge thing is cool.
But as a social medium I don’t get the usefulness of it. Does anyone else agree that as a whole it is a time suck? Maybe I am just old
Martin Polley
on 02 Jul 08If you like @hotdogsladies, you should definitely follow the other @ylnt guys—@scottsimpson and @lonelysandwich.
Gary R Boodhoo
on 02 Jul 08Larry, your comment makes it a bit less awkward to state that that I don’t get Twitter at all. Am hoping its not revolutionary or anything :)
Adrian
on 02 Jul 08Surprised diablocody (of Juno fame) has not been mentioned. A little quiet of late, and frequently naughty. But when she is on, she is awn.
Arun
on 02 Jul 08I like this chap’s tweets.
Soyapi
on 02 Jul 08My favourite is @techmeme (twitter.com/techmeme).
I have good internet access only at work so when I knock off, I still get an idea of what the tech community is talking about via sms, without getting too many duplicates of the same story.
Receiving sms tweets is free in Africa, FYI.
Larry
on 02 Jul 08I like the short and snappy wine reviews by Small Sips. The cool thing about the review format is that they are automagically picked up by Loudervoice.com.
Riddle
on 02 Jul 08<a href="http://twitter.com/nostrich">nostrich</a> and beep.
And I don’t want to see @37signals, I’d be more interested in 37s team members tweeting in their personalized streams. :) That would be awesome.
Christen Dybenko
on 02 Jul 08Tara has been tweeting much longer than most – always has a nice mix of content with fun.
http://twitter.com/missrogue
Mike McCallister
on 02 Jul 08There’s more to Twitter than laughs (though there is that).
Andy Carvin (@acarvin) does new media for National Public Radio and tweets through tech conferences and presidential campaign events.
@NewMediaJim is a cameraman in the NBC Washington Bureau and is nearly always in interesting places. You can watch the Nightly News and tell friends and family how hard it was to get that shot.
Brendon Cromwell
on 02 Jul 08Cookbook is awesome! An entire recipe in 140 characters or less. The creativity in abbreviating and in finding simple recipes is genius. An excellent example of how constraints force creativity.
http://twitter.com/cookbook
Will
on 02 Jul 08Definitely this one that I just stumbled (as in, with Stumble Upon) across: http://twitter.com/majorlabelsuit
Will
on 02 Jul 08Definitely this one that I just stumbled (as in, with Stumble Upon) across: http://twitter.com/majorlabelsuit
BJ Nemeth
on 02 Jul 08@Gruber usually has some interesting background info for Daring Fireball, but his wife, @AmyJane, has some of the best tweets out there. If I had to choose between them, I’d keep Amy Jane in the feed.
Of course, some of her best tweets are the words and actions of their son, Jonas. But she sticks to the ‘A’ material, leaving out the annoying cutesy stuff that a lot of new parents get overly excited about.
Also, @HotDogsLadies and @SoupySales always keep me laughing. I don’t know if Soupy Sales is the real deal or not, but I like to believe that it is. (And if it isn’t him, I’d rather not know.)
http://twitter.com/amyjane http://twitter.com/gruber http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies http://twitter.com/soupysales
Craig Moser
on 03 Jul 08Twitter is down/overloaded/unavailable 99.9% of the time… how can you actually determine a favorite feed to follow?
Kevin Makice
on 03 Jul 08I use Twitter primarily for local community connection, with about 300 people in the Bloomington, Indiana area using the service in some capacity.
For new information from people not in the area, I tend to rely on Twine and blogs more than Twitter. However, I find the most relevant tweets coming from
hci dhinchcliffe
I would add http://twitter.com/comicmix to that list, but they follow no one and use Twitter purely as an RSS feed.
Vicky H
on 03 Jul 08I use twitter for quite a few things.
1. Follow early, early adopters and get their opinions on new things (within a day or two). 2. Follow other people interested in the same technologies, discussions, ect.. 3. Fun stuff (raising hell) 4. Local newspaper, social listings in my city. Finding local people also. 5. Hear about peoples posts when their just put up, commenting early & being part of an almost live conversation. 6. Hearing what others (not competitors, but people in the same area) are doing, writing about, experimenting with, ect.. 7. Reading posts/articles recommended instead of plowing through the s*it. There almost always brand new to 2 days old. Better than something written 6 mos. ago. 8. Quick answers to questions about almost anything. 9. Listening to other peoples crazy, intrepid conversations while reading my own. 10. Very good for small business seeking to get recommendations, meet others, what works, ect.
daelx
on 05 Jul 08I like YouQuoted They tend to select a great quotes or two everyday. Nice to get that random motivation when I didn’t even know I needed it.
Jarin Udom
on 07 Jul 08At work we use a private Twitter account with all of our Beanstalk SVN projects tied into it, so the developers can all keep track of commits without the messages cluttering up Basecamp.
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