A Twitter experiment — part 1
Posted on February 13, 2008
Filed Under Effective Websites, Flash, Twitter
Right. I was saying Twitter turned out to be surprisingly useful. Lately I’ve been following a few people who have a sincere interest and involvement in advertising and every day they come up with a few links or observations that I normally would have missed.
So I began to wonder about other people I might like to follow. Would it be as easy as thinking, “Ooh, [insert name of well-known person here], I bet s/he’s good on Twitter”? Face it—most people probably couldn’t be bothered. Then again, there are probably some interest groups with a much higher likelihood of taking part.
I’m into website development and standards, Internet usability, and Flash programming. I’ve been following some thought leaders in these areas for years. How many names can I list right off the top of my head? How likely is it they’d be on Twitter too?
Here’s the first set of names I came up with:
- Eric Meyer—CSS
- Colin Moock—Flash
- Jeffrey Zeldman—Web Standards
- Grant Skinner—Flash
- Simon Collison—Web Design/Development
- Joey Lott—Flash
- Andy Budd—Web Design/Development
- Keith Peters—Flash
- Lee Brimelow—Flash
- Dan Cederholm—Web Design/Development
- Douglas Bowman—Web Design/Development
- Guy Kawasaki—Entrepreneur/Evangelist
- Brendan Dawes—Flash
- Hillman Curtis—Flash and Video
- Joshua Davis—Flash
- Phillip Kerman—Flash
- Dave Shea—Web Design/Development
- Dunstan Orchard—Web Design/Development
- Branden Hall—Flash
- David Stiller—Flash
That’s 20. Seemed like enough to start with. And so far I’ve checked the first 10 on Twitter. How many did I find there? Are they active?
Tomorrow.
Hey, I just noticed. All 20 of the people listed up there are male. What’s up with that? I don’t think it’s me. Is it?
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