FollowFriday
For awhile now I’ve been meaning to put my #followfriday recommendations into a blog post, unfortunately I’ve just never gotten around to it, too many other things going on. So today I’ve decided to get a start. I’ll be adding to this list as time goes on, so be sure to keep checking back.
(Just in case you are unaware, #followfriday is a Twitter idea that started a few months ago and really took off. Basically #followfriday is a hashtag used on Twitter every Friday to recommend to others people to follow on Twitter.)
I’ll be dividing these recommendations up into several groups, so some people may appear more than once.
Contents
Some of My Favorite Tweeps (People on Twitter)
@gracesmith — Grace Smith is a freelance Web Designer from Northern Ireland, she’s always posting great links, and coming up with great ideas. She’s also the driving force behind Twitter’s #ThemeThursday.
@modbird — Chris Rossi is a fun, entertaining Interior Designer/Graphic Designer/Metalsmith from Tampa, FL (though she also claims to be from Brooklyn, NY.) Always willing to chat, and share and retweet great links.
@madysondesigns — Sarah Whinnem is a freelance designer. Sarah is wonderful to chat with, shares great links and retweets some great ones as well. Fun and vibrant are two words I would use to describe her.
@cameronolivier — Cam Olivier is a Web Designer and rising Web Developer out of Cape Town, South Africa. Cam is one of the most helpful people on Twitter, readily sharing great design and development links and just generally a whole lot of fun to chat with. (Just don’t forget the ‘e’ in his surname.)
@mayhemstudios — Calvin Lee is without a doubt one of the most well known and prolific Tweeps. Always helpful, tweeting and retweeting tons of great links, sometimes the shear number of his posts can be a tad bit overwhelming, but definitely well worth following.
@briancray — Brian Cray is a User Interface Designer and Web Developer from Columbus, OH. Brian’s always ready to help if you have a question, tweets and retweets some really great design and development links, and has some really great blog posts of his own. In addition to all of that, Brian is the creator of NearbyTweets.
@fleurdeleigh — Leigh Caraccioli is a prolific twitterer, fun, energetic and slightly mischievous. A talented photographer, Leigh hails from Dayton, OH. Her antics never fail to entertain.
Designers
@gracesmith — Grace Smith is a freelance Web Designer from Northern Ireland, she’s always posting great links, and coming up with great ideas. She’s also the driving force behind Twitter’s #ThemeThursday.
@modbird — Chris Rossi is a fun, entertaining Interior Designer/Graphic Designer/Metalsmith from Tampa, FL (though she also claims to be from Brooklyn, NY.) Always willing to chat, and share and retweet great links.
@madysondesigns — Sarah Whinnem is an in–house designer as well as a freelance designer. Sarah is wonderful to chat with, shares great links and retweets some great ones as well. Fun and vibrant are two words I would use to describe her.
@cameronolivier — Cam Olivier is a Web Designer and rising Web Developer out of Cape Town, South Africa. Cam is one of the most helpful people on Twitter, readily sharing great design and development links and just generally a whole lot of fun to chat with. (Just don’t forget the ‘e’ in his surname.)
@mayhemstudios — Calvin Lee is without a doubt one of the most well known and prolific Tweeps. Always helpful, tweeting and retweeting tons of great links, sometimes the shear number of his posts can be a tad bit overwhelming, but definitely well worth following.
@curiouslt — A talented designer from Brooklyn, NY. She’s warm and charming, always posting great links, and a lot of fun to chat with. She’s also a lover of many things (you’ll have to check out her bio to see what I mean).
@mistygirlph — Hailing from Manilla, Philipines, Misty Belardo is a talented designer with amazing drawing abilities. Always fun and tweeting and retweeting great design links, she is definitely one to follow.
@imjustcreative — If you are at all interested in Typography, Graham Smith from Seaford, East Sussex, England is a must follow. Don’t get upset if Graham doesn’t follow you back, he’s interested in conversing with those he follows, so the numbers are limited.
@mrrichardson — Matt Richardson, is a fun, engaging, friendly freelance web and graphic designer from Michigan. Tons of great links get tweeted and retweeted by Matt.
@adellecharles — Adelle is truly talented person, co-founder of the Fuel Brand Network, she also posts tons of great design & freelance related links.
@chadengle — From Charlseton, WV, Chad is a fulltime designer for Charles Ryan Associates and Editor for Fuel Your Apps. The links Chad posts and retweets are an awsome resource for designers.
@cheth — Cheth is “a design guy also into programming.” Cheth tweets and retweets some amazing links. This Indian designer is a must follow.
@thatwebchick — From deep in the heart of &helip; Alabama, Laura Rainey is “wearing the geek label with pride.” Laura’s tweets are fun and informative. She also runs her own informative and insightful blog over at mentalcreative.blogspot.com
@mlane — Mike Lane is a Senior User Experience Designer from the Minneapolis, MN. Tweeting top-notch design links, Mike is a great person to follow.
Developers
@briancray — Brian Cray is a User Interface Designer and Web Developer from Columbus, OH. Brian’s always ready to help if you have a question, tweets and retweets some really great design and development links, and has some really great blog posts of his own. In addition to all of that, Brian is the creator of NearbyTweets.
@cameronolivier — Cam Olivier is a Web Designer and rising Web Developer out of Cape Town, South Africa. Cam is one of the most helpful people on Twitter, readily sharing great design and development links and just generally a whole lot of fun to chat with. (Just don’t forget the ‘e’ in his surname.)
@brenelz — Brenley Dueck is a very talented developer out of Winnipeg, Canada. Posting great links, Brenely also somehow finds time to maintain his own development blog, chock full of great development tips.
@elijahmanor — Elijah works as a software engineer at Sommerset Group. His primary focus is ASP.Net, but he’s also into jQuery. If you’re looking for great Microsoft related development links, Elijah is the man to follow.
@ruhanirabin — A self-proclaimed “Developer, Researcher, Chief Technology Architect and a total fun guy,” Ruhani Rabin, from Malaysia, is a link mogul. Tons of great links get posted by Ruhani. Check him out.
Photographers
@fleurdeleigh — Leigh Caraccioli is a prolific twitterer, fun, energetic and slightly mischievous. A talented photographer, Leigh hails from Dayton, OH. Her antics never fail to entertain.
@abbyharenberg — Abby Harenberg is another wonderfully talented photographer, from Chicago, IL. Abby is also friendly, helpful, and another poster of great links and RTer.
Others
@kellyolexa — Kelly Olexa is a marketing diva from Chicago, IL. Entertaining posts and interactions are a hallmark of Kelly’s tweets, a must follow.
@phaoloo — Though I don’t know exactally what Phao does, I do know that Phao posts tons of great design and Twitter related links.
@KrisColvin — Kristi is From Kansas City and is a User/Brand Experience. Many interesting links get Tweeted by Kristi, and her sense of humor never fails to make a day a bit brighter.
The Author
@mdrisser — I’ve been doing web design and development for over 11yrs. Primarily focusing on PHP for the backend, I also use Ruby on Rails, Perl, Python and I am starting to get into ASP.NET. I try to find some great links to tweet, and I’ll RT the ones I find useful and/or interesting. I’m also willing to chat and network with others.
That’s all for now. I’m adding more every week, so be sure to check back next week.
