Twitter Starter Pack

Posted on | April 4, 2009 |

by Jack Smith of JackSmithToday. Follow him at @jackalert

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If you are new to Twitter and are looking for some great people to follow, be assured there are people from every type of business, background and interest for you to find.  How do you find these people you might ask?  Well, here are our suggestions for finding people to follow that match your interests.

1. Check Out Twitter Search - The first place to start searching twitter by typing in items of interest and seeing what the search returns.
2. Visit Twello - A search directory of people by area of expertise, profession or other attribute listed in personal profiles on Twitter.
3. Monitter - It’s a twitter monitor, it lets you “monitter” the twitter world for a set of keywords and watch what people are saying. Cool huh?

In addition to following the Tempe Chamber, the Social Media Committee thought that we would also give you a few of our favorites for you to follow.

Here are the members of the Social Media Committee -

• @joanjakel - Business Attorney Helping Entrepreneurs Reach Their Dreams & Goals!!
• @jackalert - Social Media & Mktg Padawan. Covets Cool Tech Gadgets. Residual Income Creator & Trainer. Alerts on Web Tech, Mktg, Travel, Macs, IPAs/Wine and FUN!
• @raillife - Social Media Geek for RailLife.com where we say, “Your Life Is On The Line!”
• @nchitel - The Human Resource and Networking Guru of the Desert!
• @scatour - Accountant in a marketing world sometimes playig the role of a lawyer and a Sudoku addict who hates fish!

And here some great business recommendations

1) @jobing Aaron Matos, Founder and CEO of Jobing.com. Why you should follow: Aaron shares some great insight and articles with a faithful following.  Plus, he’s got the coolest background on Twitter.

2) @kevinrose Kevin Rose, Founder and CEO of Digg.com.   Why you should follow: He’s got 345,000+ followers…he must be saying something worthwhile.

3) @zappos Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com.  Why you should follow: Back to back keynote speaker at #SXSW, Zappos is a social media celebrity company.

4) @techcrunch Michael Arrington, CEO of Techcrunch.com.  Why you should follow: The latest news in technology comes from Techcrunch.

5) @SunCEOBlog , CEO of Sun Microsystems.  Why you should follow: See how the CEO of Sun communicates with employees, customers, and the world at large.

6) @gcolony, CEO of Forrester Research.  Why you should follow: CEO of one of the top research firms in the world.

7) @livestrongceo, CEO of Livestrong Foundation.  Why you should follow: The guy runs one of the coolest foundations.

8 ) @finkd, Mark Zuckerburg, CEO of Facebook.  Why you should follow: Um, he founded Facebook?

9) @stevecase, Co-Founder of AOL.  Why you should follow: He doesn’t have involvement with AOL anymore, but is one smart guy.

10) @richardbranson, Chairman of Virgin Group.  Why you should follow: He’s entertaining.

11) @biz, Co-Founder of Twitter.  Why you should follow: To see what the guy who founded Twitter twitters about.  And to follow that lead.

12) @ev, CEO of Twitter.  Why you should follow: Latest news about Twitter.

13) @colneedham, Founder of IMBd.  Why you should follow: IMBd has it’s own feed, but find out the behind the scenes stuff here.

14) @jailchandra, CEO of Technorati.  Why you should follow: Technorati tags are cool.

15) @jeffbooth, CEO of BuildDirect.com.  Why you should follow: Because BuildDirect.com could easily be your business.

And if that wasn’t enough, here are 250 more if you really want to get crazy.  Who would you suggest following?

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