My personal top tech Twitterers... or not
In response to a conversation I was involved in about "top twitterers", I thought I'd go through the list of people I follow in Twitter and see if I could make a top ten list of folks to follow for the kind of tech bits I'm interested in.
Turns out I couldn't make it past five. Thinking about it, I realise I still get my dose of tech stuff more reliably from places like Hacker News and Slashdot.
In case you're interested, the five I came up with:
- @timoreilly — not just because he's my boss, but Tim does on Twitter what he's always done. Curates and spreads knowledge
- @migueldeicaza — funny, iconoclastic and I've got a soft spot for whatever he's doing
- @KathySierra — makes me look at the world in a different way, and sustains a drip feed of user-centeredness into my thinking
- @timbray — follows his tech passions deeply and throws out fun conjectures
- @joshu — in turns grumpy and funny, likes to make his point with code
There's a pretty good argument that if you're following @timoreilly you're already saving yourself the effort of sorting through about 500 other people's Twitter output anyway. Ironically, that's a service I'd pay for.
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