5 People I Follow on Twitter and Why
posted in Blogging, Freelancing, NetworkingThis is part 1 of what I hope to be a never ending series as I continue to build relationships with some great people on Twitter. And there isn’t a “#FollowFriday @name @name @name @name jumble of mess” anywhere to be seen! Follow Friday tweets like that serve no purpose to me. The ones that name one Twitter user and why they are good to follow make sense. I will actually follow them if I see value.
Here is a list of 5 people I follow on Twitter and why I follow them:
@tonychester
Serious reason: he owns a cool web design company in North Carolina, named “onwired”, and I enjoy networking with a fellow business owner in a similar situation as myself.
Non-serious reason: because he is a smart ass
@brianyerkes :Just fired up the grill to cook some chicken, and flames blew up in my face and burned half my arm hair, that wasn’t fun
@tonychester : My question is “why do you have arm hair on your face”?
@mayhemstudios (Calvin Lee)
Serious reason: he’s a cool guy, and personable even though he has over 30,000 followers. A fellow designer and he is the king of RT’s.
Non-serious reason: because he looks like “The Hulk” and has a severe case of narcolepsy
@randaclay
Serious reason: another fellow designer, Randa is also experienced in all things WordPress, and a very nice person.
Non-serious reason: I find amusement when she tweets about her kids! (I won’t be laughing when I have some of my own I’m sure)
@randaclay : Why is it that when you’re on the phone, your kids have to follow you around like they’re tethered to your backside?
@randaclay : Unbelievable. It’s 7:21 and both kiddos are still asleep. Doing a quiet little happy dance at my desk.
@davidairey
Serious reason: David has one of the most popular personal design blogs out there, and is a logo designer’s role model for his professionalism and knowledge of brand identity.
Non-serious reason: He is a Liverpool supporter and I get to rip on him when they lose. Which is quite often.
@andysowards
Serious reason: Andy is another great RT’er and shares a lot of good design & social media related links. He also takes the time to frequently ask you how your day is going, and is a cool guy.
Non-serious reason: Together with @McLucky34, we coined the phrase “Temperature is Ball Relative“, after we were talking about how hot the weather was. “hot as balls” etc…
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Nice post, will follow! I also wanted to comment that @davidairey’s link is wrong, it takes you to @randaclay. Maybe you like her twice as much
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This would be a great way to do #FollowFridays! I like how you have serious, business related reasons, but, recognizing that business is all done by people and through relationships anyway, there are non-serious, fun, personal reasons, too. That’s cool
I find many people I follow have those split reasons, too. -
It’s so nice of you to include me Brian, and it’s a very nice idea for a post. I might just have to be a copycat.
Also, you’ll definitely be still laughing when you have kids- they’re so funny. -
Haha. Tony is a hero when it comes to being a smart ass!
He’s the man though. Cool guy on the internets and in person.
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Great idea for a post, buddy. Much better than a tweet with @@@@@@@.
Word of advice, I’d keep that ripping to a minimum this season or you won’t see any of that fantasy league wager. What am I saying? You won’t see any of it anyway. My team’s gonna walk all over yours.
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I follow Andy and Calvin and man these guys are RT machines! Let’s see the others too
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I saw the 4 ‘pics’ for to vote after your articles, a part Digg.com i didn’t know how many dofollow social bookmarks Webmaster designers can uses to help Your blogs; That’s a disaster for easy bloggers as me!!! Terrible and beautiful at same time. Goodbye from Perugia, Italy…
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LaurenMarie, thanks! Yeah, I see no value at all in the big list of followfriday tweets. I have never followed someone just because their name is jumbled in a list like that. I need a reason to follow someone.
Randa, no problem, Feel free to copy! I don’t think I’ve seen a post about “people to follow on Twitter” in this way, and I thought it would be a useful way to highlight some people.
Michael, yeah, I could have made this entire post about his smart assness!
David, how embarrassed you’ll be when my team’s inappropriate name is displayed at the top of the table! Jebus can’t save you! Jebus has left the building.
Gerasimos, what Andy and Calvin don’t tell you is that they are the pioneers of the “Tweetshops”, where they enslave 8 yr old Californian children to tweet each day for them for 22 hours. One typo and Calvin gets all “Hulky” on them.
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Hey so your the one that followed me on your following Friday lol. Sorry I mean no disrespect but I added you because your blog along with the others I added are all blogs that I read regularly and I added alot of people on the same day. But thank you. I hope that I can be a more interesting person to follow in the next coming months. Right now I am doing alot of reading and research and trying to keep things like twitter away from me as to not distract me.
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Brian,
1st off, you have a FANTASTIC first name! (just kidding)
I am beginning to see people do this more & more as the noise of pointless #FollowFriday lists increases. A little over a month ago I started doing this every Friday myself on my own blog (not my original idea, but liked it when I saw others doing it) and I have also tried to encourage the use of other recommendation tools – especially Mr. Tweet. I wrote a post about it here: http://bkmacdaddy.com/blog/how-to-use-mrtweet-instead-of-followfriday-my-weekly-recommendations
I really like how you gave serious AND humorous reasons for following people. Great idea and great way to do it!
Thanks for yet another wonderful post on your blog!
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haha. nice list. I love the non-serious reasons. Nice touch.
I already follow everyone on the list. Great minds think alike I guess
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Levin says:
That’s great!
They are cool guys, the same to you！ -
Great post Brian! Thanks for the mention! I will never forget that Temperature is Ball Relative HAHHA
