I’m sure most of you have heard of Twitter before. Another of the social networking tools Twitter is basically an ongoing Facebook status updater. But it’s more than that, it’s a networking tool first and foremost. You can ‘follow’ anyone you want pretty much and see what their daily doings are. Businesses, blogs, news feeds, people they all twitter away and keep you updated on every little stupid thing they want you to know they are doing. But what I’ve found it great for is one of the same things IRC has stayed interesting for over 12 years for me, the links. With built in URL shorterners adding a link to your update is extremely simple and I find plenty of great links from very different sources daily.

You can use a third party program like TweetFeed once set-up to watch and post. Then you can go to various websites and find lists of people you may be interesting in tweeting with. There’s a few compilation sites that list people with twitter feeds, here’s the big celebrity twitter list, there’s one for game development and you can even see who’s the most popular in your city. Here’s a listing of the top twitters in Los Angeles for example. No matter what your interests are you can find Twitters in that field and begin to network with them. So take the plunge and move a step forward in social technology. Here’s a few people you can start following to begin your adventure.

• Mad: My feed, don’t expect any revelations just dumb links that usually end up here as well.
• UltraCarl: You need to be auth’ed to read what Carl had for dinner but there’s free hentai involved!
• Shaq: Yup, it’s really him and he likes to say lol alot. But he posts daily on what he’s up too.
• Major Nelson: The XBox God is the reason i got on Twitter, he posts up everything happening in XBox land including codes occasionally.
• Brian Burke: Ok, it’s not really him but it’s a much funnier version of the abrasive Toronto GM.
• Rainn Wilson: Dwight Shrute is a consistent tweeter and is actually pretty funny sometimes.
• Olivia Munn: It’s as close to the geek goddess any of us will ever get unfortunately.
• Xzibit: He isn’t very exciting and talks about his kid alot but I feel gangsta knowing whassup.
• Jimmy Fallon: The former SNLer has a new show in the works and tweets about it all.
• Cesar Millan: The Dog Whisperer himself posts about once a day with internal links.
• Kevin Rose: The founder of Digg is an every day tweeter.
• George Broussard: Sick of waiting for Duke Nukem Forever? Bug George to get that shit out!
• Jesse Jane: This pornstar tweets constantly, go through her list for all the other professional skanks out there.
• Snoop Dogg: A regular twizzle he keeps it short and actually replies to alot of people.
• Ashton Kutcher: Averages 10 tweets a day sheesh, get a job you cougar rapist.