Anyone who knows me knows just how much I loves me my Twitter. My username on the site is Twilightjumper. The massively popular micro-blogging/social communication site can be used for many different things. I'm personally fond of sending out tweets in the form of Haikus, but different people use the site and its tools for different things. One really cool feature though is that you can sign up to follow some truly awesome members of the geek community and get regular status updates or words of geeky wisdom from them.
The folks over at GeekDad have done us all a tremendous service recently and have compiled their list of 100 Geeks You Should Be Following On Twitter. The list is fairly comprehensive and includes a number of amazing geeks we can all benefit from keeping up to date with. Here's a list of some of my personal favorites on the list.
- Wil Wheaton. wilw Blogger, writer, actor, and honorary GeekDad.
- LeVar Burton. levarburton You know, from Star Trek. Plus loves books, kids, etc.
- Al Yankovic. alyankovic Geek music icon.
- John Hodgman. hodgman Writer, performer, geek humorist.
- Neil Gaiman. neilhimself “Sandman”, “American Gods”, “Coraline” etc.
- Jonathan Coulton. jonathancoulton Musician, Writer and Singer of songs with geek themes (ie. Still Alive, the Portal song).
- Steve Wozniak. stevewoz Inventor of the Apple Computer … nuff said.
- Warren Ellis. warrenellis Comic book author and curator of the weird.
- Felicia Day. feliciaday Star of “The Guild” and “Dr. Horrible”; she played geeks but she totally is a geek.
- John Kovalic. muskrat_john Awesome cartoonist and writer of Dork Tower.
- Bonnie Burton. bonniegrrl Editor/writer at Lucasfilm, cutting edge geek.
- Favreau. jon_favreau Director of Iron Man (& forthcoming sequel)
There's a ton of other great people on the list as well, this is only a small number of geeks who are using twitter. Be sure to check out the rest of the list and see if there's anyone else you'd like to be following.
I refuse to get into the fad that is twitter. I spend enough time online as it is with facebook and livejournal!
ReplyDeleteEh, Twitter is fun, but it's gotten way too big recently. Once Oprah joins something, you know it's become too mainstream. I've been on Twitter for a while now thanks to my friend Michael pointing it out to me about a year and a half ago. It was fun being on it when no one outside of the geek community used it. Now that it's become mainstream though, it's just become obnoxious.
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