Twitter is amazing…when it’s working! I have had my fair share of visits from the Fail Whale and Twitterpillar, but the benefits of twitter far outweigh the moments of frustration when I can’t connect.
It has been a tremendous help when it comes to
connecting to people with whom I share personal and professional interests. It’s a huge source for general news, tips on the best places to go in the District, links to great social media efforts and updates from every media/pr/marketing conference I could ever think of attending.
I see tremendous value, and it turns out that I am not the only who feels this way. Top Brands have discovered Twitter’s potential and boldly moved into the land of 140 characters.
Paul Dunay, Global Director of Integrated Marketing BearingPoint, Inc. and author of the blog Buzz Marketing for Technology, posted a list of brands and C-level execs brave enough to engage. Listed brands I’m following in include:
- CNN - twitter.com/cnn
- Fast Company - twitter.com/fastcompany
- NY Times - twitter.com/nytimes
- Sprint News - twitter.com/sprintnews
- Pandora - twitter.com/pandora_radio
- and a few more!
The full list is available here.
It’d be cooler to know who updates these brands? I don’t care if it’s an intern, I’m just interested, you know?
That is a good question. Particularly with Pandora, I know it’s Lucia, the community manager. I’ve DM’d her several times and am pretty sure she is doing her own. For the others, I’m not sure. I’ll do some digging.
WHERE IS FOX NEWS?!?!?!?!? FAIR AND BALANCED!
Wow, clearly someone is passionate about Fox. If there’s anyone else out there interested, here are the twitter feeds I found which are run by fox:
http://twitter.com/myfoxdc
http://twitter.com/foxnews
http://twitter.com/foxnewsradio
For the record, I do follow myfoxdc.