The Vancouver social media scene has exploded in the last year with hundreds of unofficial members congregating on web applications including my favorite, Twitter. For those of you that don’t know twitter, it is a Web application where you provide details of what you are currently doing, or what you are working on or perhaps an announcement about a new technology that you have discovered or a random thought.
If you are familiar with Facebook, it is similar to “updating your status” but with a twist. While Facebook typically connects you with your high school friends, Twitter allows you to connect to colleagues and industry professionals.
Facebook is for chatting about your weekend activities and Twitter is for chatting about your work day activities.
This is a broad generalization of course, as I often see twitter posts (tweets) from my tweeps (think peeps) about what they are doing for the long weekend, but for the most part I use Twitter to follow people that I respect in my industry, online marketing, and also what’s going on in the Vancouver social media scene. Twitter isn’t clogged with other features or distractions that you find in Facebook but the two are similar. While Facebook users update their status every couple of days, twitterers often tweet every couple of hours.
Shannon Yelland posted a great list of Twitter terms and tools in her blog post “…Every Twitter Term and Tool I Can Find.”
My Top 20 Vancouver Twitterers to Follow:
(In no particular order and in my opinion. If I have missed you or you object in any way, please send me a tweet.)
1) http://twitter.com/miss604
2) http://twitter.com/buzzbishop
3) http://twitter.com/hummingbird604
4) http://twitter.com/todmaffin
5) http://twitter.com/techvibes
6) http://twitter.com/dbarefoot
7) http://twitter.com/kk
http://twitter.com/wilhelmus
9) http://twitter.com/ColleenCoplick
10) http://twitter.com/tyfn
11) http://twitter.com/jennmae
12) http://twitter.com/rtanglao
13) http://twitter.com/trishussey
14) http://twitter.com/sjagger
15) http://twitter.com/arieanna
16) http://twitter.com/shanegibson
17) http://twitter.com/megfowler
18) http://twitter.com/maurar
19) http://twitter.com/johnchowdotcom
20) http://twitter.com/Shannonyelland
If a list of 20 is too many for you, check out The Top 10 Twitterers in Vancouver according to Twitter Grader
Blog post by Chris Breikss of 6S Marketing
Me: http://twitter.com/chrisbreikss
6S Marketing: http://twitter.com/6s_marketing
6S Blogger Kelly Robertson: http://twitter.com/kel_roberts
November 12, 2008
