Who to follow (perhaps) on Twitter

Twitter people or organisations to consider following.

Malburns is an essential twitter feed for news about virtual world developments. As of 15th July 2009, he’s clocked up nearly 35,000 tweets(!) on there. Tweets are not limited to UK activity.

Peter Miller tweets often with virtual world resources of interest.

Myrl tweets predominantly about Second Life issues and events.

Second Commerce is relatively new, but has some interesting tweets about business aspects of Second Life.

sloog frequently tweets about interesting places in Second Life.

SLurl provides direct links to often interesting events in Second Life.

The official Second Life twitter, but it can be a little quiet.

The Grid Status of Second Life.

Many UK academic virtual world developers also have twitter accounts. One method is to start with a subset of them, and see who they follow, are followed by, and what they tweet. A linked list of presenters from the April 2009 virtual worlds conference who ‘twitter’ is a possible place to start.

Twitter-related applications

Twitterbox is an object which enables one to post to and receive updates from Twitter, when inside Second Life.

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