A few days ago, I published a short list of 10 blogs you should bookmark this year. But what about Twitter users?
I consulted several helpful sites, including TweetStats and Twitter Analyzer, for the answer. Here are the results:
1. @MSNBC_travel
No surprise that I retweet a lot of MSNBC’s posts. I’m a columnist for the site.
2. @Gadling
Gadling’s content is interesting and the folks running its Twitter account really “get” social media.
3. @Marilyn_Res
Marilyn Terrell, who is a colleague at National Geographic Traveler, is a Twitter goddess.
Steve Frischling is the other blogger who was subpoenaed by the feds last week. He never stops working. Or twittering.
5. @Wendyperrin
She’s Conde Nast Traveler’s advice columnist, but she’s so much more than that.
6. @WeJustGotBack
Family travel expert Suzanne Kelleher has an engaging Twitter presence.
7. @Leocha
Hey, I know why I retweet all of Charlie Leocha’s posts: I work with this guy!
8. @Rickseaney
He was also on my list of blogs to follow. Same reasons.
Anita Potter knows cruises and social media.
10. @Wanderlust13
Ronnie Stoddart is the deputy managing editor for travel at USA Today. Enough said.
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great list, chris – THANK YOU!!
I follow @wendyperrin and @wanderlust13 they are great tweeters and they often reply back on twitter.
Although I’m sure that their content may be decent information, I lose interest in following a lot of people who don’t follow back. At some point, following more people than follow you skews your own “tweet stats” and makes you look bad, or less “influential.”
The only people on your list I’ve stuck with over time are @wendyperrin and @Marilyn_Res for that reason, although there are two I’ve not seen before.
You say about @Gadling that they “get” social media, and yet their follow to followers ratio is 6:1. For every person they follow back, they ignore 5. Although their statistics show how influential they may be, they do not necessarily mean they are here to interact.
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