Ask HN: Whom do you regularly follow on Twitter?

#1

Post by gsivil » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 7:45 AM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: Whom do you regularly follow on Twitter?

#2

Post by Vidura » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 8:37 AM UTC

Hacker News is for bad guys.

Re: Ask HN: Whom do you regularly follow on Twitter?

#3

Post by JackdawX » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 10:40 AM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: Whom do you regularly follow on Twitter?

#4

Post by kes » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 4:42 PM UTC

@al3x - Alex Payne

@hotdogsladies - Merlin Mann

@rands - Michael Lopp

@mattlanger - Matt Langer

Re: Ask HN: Whom do you regularly follow on Twitter?

#5

Post by JayNeely » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 5:48 PM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: Whom do you regularly follow on Twitter?

#6

Post by mahmud » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 6:13 PM UTC

@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

Re: Ask HN: Whom do you regularly follow on Twitter?

#7

Post by gsivil » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 9:38 PM UTC

JayNeely wrote: post #5

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…

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 :)

Re: Ask HN: Whom do you regularly follow on Twitter?

#8

Post by gsivil » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 9:43 PM UTC

kes wrote: post #4

@al3x - Alex Payne @hotdogsladies - Merlin Mann @rands - Michael Lopp @mattlanger - Matt Langer

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

Re: Ask HN: Whom do you regularly follow on Twitter?

#9

Post by tim_iles » Mon, Dec 13, 2010, 11:09 AM UTC

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.