How to: Follow Hundreds of Tech Analysts on Twitter With 3 Clicks
I may be a scruffy, untrained blogger but I can still appreciate the work of traditional professional technology analysts. SageCircle is an analyst analyst firm, they track the analyst industry. Their emails and podcasts are an inspiration - dense with information and loads of fun. (If you like that kind of thing.)
SageCircle has been maintaining a list of tech analysts with Twitter accounts and the list is now up to 724 active users. It's a cool list and I thought it would be a good thing to put into TweepML, a wonderful Twitter group-creation service we reviewed earlier this month. The link for following all the analysts is below.
Visit this link and you'll find the first 500 analysts on the list. Scroll down to the very bottom of the page, enter your Twitter username and password and click follow. Of course you could also deselect people you'd rather not follow, or deselect all and just follow the ones you know or look interesting.
Then at the top of the page you'll see a bit.ly link to part 2. With three clicks of your mouse you can add the daily minute wisdom of 724 tech analysts to your life. It takes awhile for the system to add all of your new friends, and at one point I got a message that my Twitter account was temporarily suspended - but that didn't turn out to be true. That said, open this magic box of wisdom at your own risk.
Think this sounds like a bad idea? Not if you believe that online noise is good for you or you know how to use the secret weapon of the social web, effective and strategic creation of groups.
Thanks a bunch to Carter Lusher of SageCircle, @carterlusher, for building and maintaining this list.
Want to do something to help, yourself? Go create a new Twitter account, follow all these people, then follow these instructions to create an OPML file of all the analysts' feeds using Dave Winer's tool for that. Then, upload that OPML file to Google Reader and you'll be able to search through the history of these analysts' tweets, in some cases as far as 2 or 3 years back! Then post that OPML file somewhere, or send it to me, so I can share it with everyone else reading this.
What would you do with 724 new analyst friends on Twitter? I'm going to spend some time with a text file of all the usernames and a Tweetdeck column. It sure would be nice if Tweetdeck supported bulk import and export of groups.
In an interview yesterday, in preparation for the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit, John Borthwick of Betaworks (a Tweetdeck investor) said that interoperability and innovation based on groups are something the team is working on. I think this group of analysts on Twitter is just one of many examples of value that can be derived from group creation.
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Thanks a lot
Hell, where was this thing when I was putting together my news-media-on-Twitter list, which I had to do by creating a separate Twitter account and then painstakingly following each one I could find? I sigh forlornly.
Great post. I wondering how to place my video application on twitter and I think it will help me a lot. I will definately try this out..
Thanks for share the info !
The easiest job is follow all and the toughest job is to deselect some from the list any way thanks for sharing.
Wow imagine how powerful a list would be for every Niche Market! Great information and really got me thinking.
That's amazing. but I still don't have a twitter :-(
Marshall, I love the line "know how to use the secret weapon of the social web, effective and strategic creation of groups". Nail. Head. Bang.
Now I know, thanks for the tips and also for the links.
Marshall - nice list. I was wondering what the heck was going on with the crazy follow numbers for analysts this morn.
As one of the analysts that is listed, I think this is a great idea. We maintain twitter accts so that we can react as many people as possible. Thank you for putting this together.
Matt Healey,
Research Manager, IDC
HW_Support
Thanks for the post! It's always fun finding new types of people to follow. Especially following them all at once instead of spending a bunch of time following them one by one.
Thanks for the post Marshall. Carter Lusher is doing a great service to technologists with his list.
And posts like this remind me to make sure my Twitter feed stays relevant, interesting, and useful to all my followers.
Andi Mann
VP of Research
Enterprise Management Associates
Cool group creation tool and thanks for sending a pile of people our way.
Is there an easy way to create an OPML list of your followers? @IDC follows all IDC analysts. It would be cool if we could post a follow tool for IDC analysts on idc.com.
Thanks,
Abner
I've created an RSS feed with the full text of all the links the Tech Analysts tweet.
Check it out here:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheTechAnalysts
Gee, thanks, that got my Twitter a/c suspended...lol
How to: Follow 724 Tech Analysts on Twitter With 3 Clicks http://bit.ly/3zpCaB (thx to @carterlusher !) [from http://twitter.com/marshallk/statuses/4093600553]
Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick
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September 24, 2009 10:17 AM
Sounds pretty great for the readers
Great information as always thank you for sharing!!