Whether you think Twitter is good or bad, you’re bound to be amazed and/or a bit stunned by Twitterholic.com. It’s a top 100 list on the most followed Twitter users, with hotshots like Robert Scoble, Steve Rubel, Jason Calacanis and more.
At the moment, 15 of these 100 twits are actually from BBC, as in BBC News, BBC One, BBC Sports and various local stations. That makes me all warm and fuzzy, BBC is great at adopting new technology and this is putting Twitter to good use, right?
Our own David Krug is on Twitter of course. He tries to convince me to join. I will, when I’ve redesigned my own blog and actually gotten back to regular updating. In other words, not likely happening anytime soon.
Are you on Twitter?
Originally posted on March 19, 2007 @ 12:15 pm
I joined Twitter a couple weeks ago. Trying to be more active on it. :)
http://www.twitter.com/kineda
I’m not sure if I agree if BBC is putting Twitter to good use. They aren’t the only news source on Twitter (NYTimes, Google, CNN also do the same thing). These news sources are simply posting their latest RSS updates, which to me is noise for my purposes of Twitter (especially because there’s so much of it!). Sure, some people will disagree, but I found the news updates so frequent and annoying that I removed all except CNN Breaking News (which doesn’t seem to break news that often), thereby making my Twitter experience almost solely that of following friends and admirers, which is what I like most about Twitter.