Alan Rusbridger‘s article today, Why Twitter matters for media organisations listed a great many reasons for using Twitter.
During my years on Twitter I have found it is a great way to learn and I continue to learn a great deal by following other digital journalists, educators and developers.
Teaching and learning
Paul Bradshaw – Lecturer and social media consultant Online journalism blog – great tips Twitter.com/ojblog
Clay Shirky – Influential future media blogger
Glynn Mottershead – Journalism lecturer
Andy Dickinson – Online journalism lecturer and links; twitter.com/linkydickinson
Jeff Jarvis – The Buzz Machine blogger and journalism professor
Sue Llewellyn – BBC social media trainer and TV journo
Steve Yelvington – Newsroom trainer
Jay Rosen – Journalism lecturer at NYU
Roy Greenslade – City University, media commentator
Journalists
Alison Gow – Executive Editor, digital, for the Liverpool Daily Post & Liverpool Echo
Marc Reeves – The Business Desk, West Midlands
Richard Kendall – Web editor Peterborough Evening Telegraph
David Higgerson – Head of Multimedia, Trinity Mirror
Sam Shepherd – Bournemouth Echo digital projects
Jo Wadsworth – Brighton Argus web editor
Matt Cornish – journalist and author of Monkeys and Typewriters
Louise Bolotin – Journalist and hyperlocal blogger
Sarah Booker (me because I try to be useful)
Joanna Geary – Guardian digital development editor twitter.com/joannageary and twitter.com/joannaslinks
Adam Tinworth – Consultant and ex-Reed Business Information editorial development manager
Adam Westbrook – Lecturer and multimedia journalist
Patrick Smith – The Media Briefing
Shane Richmond – Telegraph Head of technology
Edward Roussel – Telegraph digital editor
Damian Thompson – Telegraph blogs editor
Kate Day – Telegraph communities editor
Ilicco Elia – Former Head of mobile Reuters
Sarah Hartley– Guardian local
Jemima Kiss – Guardian media/tech reporter
Kate Bevan – Guardian media/tech reporter
Josh Halliday – Media Guardian
Jessica Reid – Guardian Comment is Free
Charles Arthur – Tech Guardian editor
Heather Brooke – Investigative journalist, FOI campaigner
Kevin Anderson – Journalist, ex BBC, ex Guardian
Wannabehacks – Journalism students and trainees
Simon Rogers – Guardian data journalist and editor of the datastore
Jon Slattery – Journalist
Laura Oliver – Journalism.co.uk
Johann Hari – Journalist, The Independent (personal)
Guy Clapperton – Journalist and writer
Alan Rusbridger – Guardian editor
Specialists
George Hopkin – Seo evangelist
Nieman Journalism Lab – Harvard
Martin Belam – Guardian internet advisor
Tony Hirst – OU lecturer and data mash up artist
Christian Payne – Photography, video, mobile media
David Allen Green – Lawyer and writer
Judith Townend – Meeja Law & From the Online
Richard Pope – Scraperwiki director
Suw Charman-Anderson – social software consultant and writer
Scraperwiki – Data scraping and information
Chris Taggart – Founder of Openly Local and They Work for You
Suzanne Kavanagh – Publishing sector manager at Skillset, personal account
Greg Hadfield – Director of strategic projects at Cogapp, ex Fleet Streets
Francis Irving – Scraperwiki
Ben Goldacre – Bad Science
Philip John – Journal Local, Litchfield Blog, twitter.com/hyperaboutlocal
David McCandless – Information is Beautiful
Flying Binary – Cloud computing and visual analytics
Rick Waghorn – Journalist and founder of Addiply
News sources
Richard MacManus – Read Write Web
Mashable – Social media blog
House of Twits – Houses of Parliament
Sarah Booker 