Ask HN: Whom do you regularly follow on Twitter?

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by gsivil • 16 years ago

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I have just decided to give twitter another try.

Obviously posting that on Hacker News I would like to read your preferences about tech and start up people. But as the guidelines suggest any people/companies/organizations that are deeply interesting and relevant would work. At the moment I follow only linus_trovalds, peter seibel and pg.

Vidura• 16 years ago

Hacker News is for bad guys.

JackdawX• 16 years ago

It's well worth following John Carmack (of Doom/Quake fame, for those who don't know). The guy is insightful and his projects are interesting to read about. Also, he doesn't spam your feed, which is always nice.

kes• 16 years ago

@al3x - Alex Payne

@hotdogsladies - Merlin Mann

@rands - Michael Lopp

@mattlanger - Matt Langer

gsivil2• 16 years ago

Thanks for taking the time. It would be nice if you could give us a few-words sentence of why you follow them.

JayNeely• 16 years ago

http://twitter.com/#!/hnshah - Hiten Shah, the CEO of KISSmetrics, an analytics & conversion optimization service.

I saw from your comments that you're in Cambridge, MA? I'm in Somerville, so some area developers I can recommend to you are:

http://twitter.com/#!/bdarfler - Ben Darfler, senior software engineer at Localytics, Java / Scala / scalability badass.

http://twitter.com/#!/rseanlindsay - Sean Lindsay, CTO at Viximo, friendly and helpful serial startup developer.

http://twitter.com/#!/aaronwhite - Aaron White, founder of DoInk.com, skilled web developer & passionate about computer science education.

http://twitter.com/#!/dlouhy - Jeff Dlouhy, student developer w/ some awesome acheivements already under his belt.

What kind of people are you interested in following? I haven't recommended ruby devs or non-devs, but there are a bunch of great ones on twitter in the area.

gsivil2• 16 years ago

Thanks a lot for the detailed recommendations. I am not a developer myself or even the entrepreneur type. I would like to follow interesting people that can give often non-trivial and insightful tweets on technology, technology market, computer science, physics, and of course any stimulating tweeters. From computer science and programming I would love to see tweets from

Just to give an example of my test Norvig, Knuth, Stallman and similar people. I guess I am out of luck on these ones :)

mahmud• 16 years ago

@antifuchs always makes my day. German hacker and recent San Franciscan.

@MoRocca is consistently funny, and often timely. Comedian celebrity.

@mattmight and @ccshan for serious CS, both professors.

Following "startup scene" types just filled my twitter stream with desperate, trivial minds.

You can also go see the people I follow, many of them are silent but it was a pleasure to see them on twitter. Names like Mitchell Wand, Dan Ingalls, Richard Gabriel, Scott McKay, etc. I will happily retweet whenever they decide to speak :-)

You can also follow me; I tweet mostly about programming, often drunk, and always aim to offend. @bigthingist

tim_iles• 16 years ago

I originally found Twitter to be useful at conferences and evening tech talks etc. I then started to follow people who I saw also regularly tweeting at these events. As a result, a lot of the people who I follow, I have now also met in Real Life. Essentially, it kinda works as an aid to networking, as well as sharing tech news.

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