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I’ve been using Favrd for a while – which is usually worth a laugh or two.

Other than that – nothing! I’m interested to see what people post up as I’m relatively new to the Twitter scene.

My favorite was http://twitter.com/37signals

... until they stopped updating/posting to it.

Oh snap I mis-understood what you meant by feed :P

Zeldman (of zeldman.com) is on mine.

I’d read 37S (and it’s members) if it updated more regulary than the blog (and with different content) :)

I really love http://twitter.com/techmemefh – great way to keep up on tech news.

Personally, I enjoy Hobo Jones and his wacky adventures:

http://twitter.com/hobojones

My favorite is writer Warren Ellis who posts frequently and always hilarious. His feed is the only one I backtrack to make sure I didn’t miss any posts.

I enjoy Diggnation a lot, so – http://www.twitter.com/kevinrose and http://twitter.com/alexalbrecht

Roz Savage – a non-tech Twitterer rowing across the Pacific Ocean.

ShaniquaB is kind of a non-work-safe collaborative art project I like to follow.

it’s not even close: someecards

http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix

Because that’s where I heard we had Ice on Mars. It just honestly boggles my mind to think we’ve got man-made stuff on another planet.

The team keeps the feed updated well (and even answers the occasional question).

Fascinating.

It’s an odd thing, for the most part, I only follow folks I actually know, whether in person or online. Twitter is rampant on our large-ish staff, so it’s a nice way to keep track of our culture and stay in the loop. It seems to add the most value to me in terms of actual personal relationships.

The major exception to that would of course be twitter.com/CobraCommander. I follow him because I am a huge nerd.

Aprat from @JonGretar of course ;), I like @MarsPhoenix, @giagia, @starstryder and @BadAstronomer. Mostly because I’m a bit of a science/astronomy buff. I also like following the Revision3 people to grow my inner geek.

Directly, http://twitter.com/matthewbaldwin is great. But I use RSS feeds of summize.com searches for several things.

The tweets I look forward to the most are:

Jepch Jacques Heather Cee Sam Stephenson

Blankenship’s must be an evil nerd – http://twitter.com/generalhawk is the way to go for the good guys.

http://twitter.com/rawkhawk is good for twittered album reviews too.

Tech obstacles? You have a browser, right? If not, you should totally download Firefox or something.

Life of a frustrated web designer @masuga

RUWTsevere – it’s like your friend that screams into the phone telling you to turn on the game.

I enjoy blogs, but for some reason I just don’t “get” twitter. Joshua mentioned staying attuned to “culture” through it.

I’d love to hear how folks are specifically finding value through twitter vs. blogs or other communication tools.

I am admittedly just not in the know on the appeal of Twitter because I think I just haven’t had someone explain it and the various uses for it!

I really like @winetweets. Lots of wine recommendations.

http://twitter.com/lowflyingrocks so I can get an SMS four hours after the giant asteroid hits!

But seriously, my hosting company Segpub has a twitter account and it’s a wonderful way to get status updates pushed to me.

_why

http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies

Merlin makes me laugh out loud.

textism: witty, not too much @chat.

@SH What about automatically tweet you last blog posts ? I wrote a howto on my blog, there :

http://kevinbongart.net/blog/2008/02/15/mettre-son-twitter-a-jour-en-fonction-de-son-statut-facebook/

It’s for Facebook statuses, but it also works with other RSS feeds.

Zeldman (zeldman) and Hockenberry (of Twitterrific fame) are hilarious

@SH What about automatically tweet you last blog posts ? I wrote a howto on my blog, there :

http://kevinbongart.net/blog/2008/02/15/mettre-son-twitter-a-jour-en-fonction-de-son-statut-facebook/

It’s for Facebook statuses, but it also works with other RSS feeds.

I like @rands, @gruber & @ilovetypography.

I don’t really like corporate feeds, including 37signals; for me, Twitter is a more human flow. I’d love to see 37s employees’ feeds though.

Def hotdogsladies aka Merlin Mann http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies

The Amazon mp3 Daily Deal, where a tweet is posted when an album goes on sale for some ridiculous price like $1.99 or $2.99.

My favorite Twiiter feed is the fail whale. You see it at every Twitter URL , all the time!

LOL , seriously now. Why would I follow a feed at a site that’s down? Get a clue, get on FriendFeed

So far, I’ve had no desire to use Twitter. I don’t follow anybody, I don’t use it myself.

Call me an outlier, but I just don’t see the point. There is no one I know (online or in real life) who I want to be so constantly updated on that checking their blog at my leisure won’t do the trick.

I don’t doubt that most people find Twitter fascinating, but I do not.

Just my 2 cents – not trying to troll.

Second for hotdogsladies (Merlin) and also love soupysales for a laugh.

I have to echo @hotdogsladies he’s hilarious.

fireland – hysterical.

Joseph Kimojino’s tweets from the Masai Mara put the chatter into perspective. http://twitter.com/maratriangle

Codinghorror – http://twitter.com/codinghorror Wil Shipley – http://twitter.com/wilshipley Wil Wheaton – http://twitter.com/wilw

I (@bas1809) am a fan of @gapingvoid. His travels to and from the back of beyond in Alpine, TX are always engaging, as is his cartooning and art.

Zeldman is pretty entertaining.

@Keith: There’s nothing to get. People use it because most mobile devices are poorly designed and have lame browsers.

It’s a blog restricted to very small posts, essentially just a single hyper link or facebook-style status update. It’s for people with CrackBerry’s.

That aside, I would recommend: Max Gladwell for his tweets on social media and green living.

I enjoy following twitter.com/iTod. He updates regularly with news about Fluid.app.

@towerbridge is a wonderful example of why twitter is great. (likewise @marsphoenix) @warrenellis is always hilarious

@Will: Hear, hear.

I’m too busy working on my book (hat tip to Sarah and Jason). “Then the DVD …”

without doubt: http://twitter.com/darthvader

consistently funny.

Twitter seems like yet another escalation in narcissism. Most of what I’ve seen are people broadcasting meaningless trivia about themselves. What’s the point? How did civilization survive without knowing that Johnny Hotster was having a bagel on 5th street or that he just downloaded Coldplay’s latest single? Who cares?

Yeah, call me a troll, I don’t care.

Oh, by the way, I just pulled up my socks. I think I’ll go eat a sandwich now.

nivi because he consistently makes me stop and think about what i’m doing. and andy_house because it is weird.

Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) is my fav to follow.

http://twitter.com/codinghorror

he updates all day long with witty and interesting tweets

I would have to chime-in for twitter.com/zeldman. A few of my favorites are 1 and 2. His tweets on raising a child, travel, and NY are classic.

Going for the “little known” angle instead of the super-popular stuff I’m seeing here, I recently saw http://twitter.com/inthefuture and thought it was a funny idea.

twitter.com/syted – daily dose of pithy quotes.

hmmm…. can’t make up my mind between twitter.com/fakebarackobama and twitter.com/facejohnmccain. Seriously though, my favs are just individual people I know that are funny.

Some of the ones on this comment thread are great!

http://twitter.com/chrisbrogan tons of tips and seem like a nice guy !

@fireland – Quirky humor, sometimes a bit PG-13, but always funny

http://twitter.com/Veronica _

Merlin Mann @hotdogsladies I like his quip like banter. Its a quick and always witty jest about the day to day. Funny. Kinda like www.fullquip.com Love the idea of making someone laugh in one sentence.

Does Friendfeed count? At least it’s up.

If not, I check out Leo Laporte’s: http://twitter.com/leolaporte

Or there’s mine :) http://twitter.com/JeffWoelker

To choose one, it would be @hotdogsladies. Closely behind is @gruber.

@ML (37signals)

“My favorite was http://twitter.com/37signals

“We’ve been slow with updates to our twitter feed due to some tech obstacles but we hope to be back to full time tweeting soon. In the meanwhile, we’re curious to see what others are digging there.”

Are those tech obstacles related to twitter being developed using the Rails framework?

There’s a great list of 50+ Designers to follow over at – http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/social-media/designers-on-twitter/

I enjoy @zeldman, @meyerweb, @vpieters (Veerle), @tonychester (OnWired), & @markboulton

It is very interesting checking out some of these twitter feeds. Good suggestions! Keep em coming!

http://twitter.com/jeffpulver is always great for a reality check and some useful advice.

I keep my list of followers down, but here’s a few lesser knowns that I enjoy:

http://twitter.com/sambrown http://twitter.com/danbenjamin

And a mad scientist that I is dead funny:

http://twitter.com/dezene

@garvee – Gary Vaynerchuk always has energetic tweets

also, who knew, John Cleese is on twitter too @JohnCleese definitely would like to see him tweet more

I would have to say that my favorite Twitter feed is that of John Gruber’s wife, Amy Jane Gruber. That woman is absolutely hysterical! I need to write a script that automatically favorites every one of her tweets. Good stuff!

http://twitter.com/AmyJane

...John, your Twitter feed ain’t so bad either. :-)

I too have to vote for http://twitter.com/CobraCommander He always inserts a proper amount of ridiculous into my day.

@fredwilson consistently engages in great conversations with the people around him. I recommend a follow.

Darth Vader of course! http://twitter.com/darthvader

London’s Tower Bridge: http://twitter.com/towerbridge

I find its constancy quite soothing.

“I am opening…” “I am closing…” “I am opening…” “I am closing…”

@cybersechs because i need more romance in my life

I work for a small, progressive consulting company who bought into my visions of starting a blog and Twitter feed under the company name. So, with S v. N as my inspiration (the best company blog out there, IMHO ) I started my employer’s Twitter feed and blog in the hopes that they become something that’s a mix of Daring Fireball, S v. N, Scoble and a few of the better ZDNet business blogs/feeds, all wrapped into one.

There’s a right way and wrong way to do things, and I’m hoping I’m doing things the right way in order to attract an intelligent audience.

On a personal level, my favorite feeds are John Gruber, Daniel Jalkut and Steve Rubel.

Merlin Mann and SoupySales as others have said. Besides people I know in real life, I’m on Twitter for the little jokes that get thrown around throughout the day. For that I recommend Favrd.com (as someone said that the top)—check out the tweets that are featured here and pretty soon you will find some great people to follow.

Some recent faves: Heather Champ, FarkerPeaceBoy, and Apelad.

And another vote for Fireland. It’s the genuinely funny and twisted shit I wish I could come up with.

His interview on Dooce is a classic as well: http://dooce.com/2008/06/12/apologies-advance-mr-hamilton

Another vote for @AmyJane – I make a point of looking at her page once a day when I need a laugh (she’s smart, sarcastic and funny as hell). Also @scottsimpson (found via @Gruber) – ditto on the funny.

I am rather new to the whole Twitter thing, but Zeldman does it for me.

I follow http://www.twitter.com/tastyplanner for the awesome food articles.

Without a doubt, for social media busines and reflection, a Twitter in english and in french : http://twitter.com/jeanlucr

I like http://twitter.com/kenburnstein for funny Haiku

I personally follow:

http://twitter.com/guykawasaki
http://twitter.com/SethGodin
http://twitter.com/Twitterrific <—My favorite Twitter App
http://twitter.com/jeffwollman <—Going to be huge

And of course, my personal favorite ;)
http://twitter.com/jordanwollman <—Shameless self promotion

Ok, I get some applications of twitter, like the bridge thing is cool.

But as a social medium I don’t get the usefulness of it. Does anyone else agree that as a whole it is a time suck? Maybe I am just old

If you like @hotdogsladies, you should definitely follow the other @ylnt guys—@scottsimpson and @lonelysandwich.

Larry, your comment makes it a bit less awkward to state that that I don’t get Twitter at all. Am hoping its not revolutionary or anything :)

Surprised diablocody (of Juno fame) has not been mentioned. A little quiet of late, and frequently naughty. But when she is on, she is awn.

I like this chap’s tweets.

My favourite is @techmeme (twitter.com/techmeme).

I have good internet access only at work so when I knock off, I still get an idea of what the tech community is talking about via sms, without getting too many duplicates of the same story.

Receiving sms tweets is free in Africa, FYI .

I like the short and snappy wine reviews by Small Sips. The cool thing about the review format is that they are automagically picked up by Loudervoice.com.

<a href="http://twitter.com/nostrich">nostrich</a> and beep.

And I don’t want to see @37signals, I’d be more interested in 37s team members tweeting in their personalized streams. :) That would be awesome.

Tara has been tweeting much longer than most – always has a nice mix of content with fun.

http://twitter.com/missrogue

There’s more to Twitter than laughs (though there is that).

Andy Carvin (@acarvin) does new media for National Public Radio and tweets through tech conferences and presidential campaign events.

@NewMediaJim is a cameraman in the NBC Washington Bureau and is nearly always in interesting places. You can watch the Nightly News and tell friends and family how hard it was to get that shot.

Cookbook is awesome! An entire recipe in 140 characters or less. The creativity in abbreviating and in finding simple recipes is genius. An excellent example of how constraints force creativity.

http://twitter.com/cookbook

Definitely this one that I just stumbled (as in, with Stumble Upon) across: http://twitter.com/majorlabelsuit

Definitely this one that I just stumbled (as in, with Stumble Upon) across: http://twitter.com/majorlabelsuit

@Gruber usually has some interesting background info for Daring Fireball, but his wife, @AmyJane, has some of the best tweets out there. If I had to choose between them, I’d keep Amy Jane in the feed.

Of course, some of her best tweets are the words and actions of their son, Jonas. But she sticks to the ‘A’ material, leaving out the annoying cutesy stuff that a lot of new parents get overly excited about.

Also, @HotDogsLadies and @SoupySales always keep me laughing. I don’t know if Soupy Sales is the real deal or not, but I like to believe that it is. (And if it isn’t him, I’d rather not know.)

http://twitter.com/amyjane http://twitter.com/gruber http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies http://twitter.com/soupysales

Twitter is down/overloaded/unavailable 99.9% of the time… how can you actually determine a favorite feed to follow?

I use Twitter primarily for local community connection, with about 300 people in the Bloomington, Indiana area using the service in some capacity.

For new information from people not in the area, I tend to rely on Twine and blogs more than Twitter. However, I find the most relevant tweets coming from

hci dhinchcliffe

I would add http://twitter.com/comicmix to that list, but they follow no one and use Twitter purely as an RSS feed.

I use twitter for quite a few things.

1. Follow early, early adopters and get their opinions on new things (within a day or two). 2. Follow other people interested in the same technologies, discussions, ect.. 3. Fun stuff (raising hell) 4. Local newspaper, social listings in my city. Finding local people also. 5. Hear about peoples posts when their just put up, commenting early & being part of an almost live conversation. 6. Hearing what others (not competitors, but people in the same area) are doing, writing about, experimenting with, ect.. 7. Reading posts/articles recommended instead of plowing through the s*it. There almost always brand new to 2 days old. Better than something written 6 mos. ago. 8. Quick answers to questions about almost anything. 9. Listening to other peoples crazy, intrepid conversations while reading my own. 10. Very good for small business seeking to get recommendations, meet others, what works, ect.

I like YouQuoted They tend to select a great quotes or two everyday. Nice to get that random motivation when I didn’t even know I needed it.

At work we use a private Twitter account with all of our Beanstalk SVN projects tied into it, so the developers can all keep track of commits without the messages cluttering up Basecamp.