Ask HN: Best tech Twitter accounts to follow

30 points·claroscuro··9 comments

Hi!

I've recently replaced Reddit with Twitter to get my Tech news, and I'm wondering what the community thinks are the best accounts to follow to stay up to date in Tech.

Appreciate it :) Claro

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@pinboard for excellent snark + tech political activism

@SwiftOnSecurity. Excellent tweets on security, general programming stuff, nerd humor, and women in tech.

News wise? Tech journalists.

Though I think the better use of twitter is to follow people like @naval and similar accounts. More of general life/interesting thoughts.

Stay away from tech journalists unless you want to spend time reading tech mixed with politics these days. Follow engineering blogs of Facebook, Netflix, Spotify, LinkedIn, etc.

Not @dhh --- the guy tweets to prove he is right about everything and that the rest of SV is wrong. I bought into it for a little while but then he got all buddy buddy with that Gary V dude. the last straw was him celebrating the outing of Uber's CEO for a whole week.

There are loads of good ones out there but here's a few IMP:

-MadewithARkit (brand new, lots of cool stuff)

-SwiftonSecurity

-VentureBeat

-Kara Swisher

-Christopher Mims

-Google Developers

-Google Research

-Steve Jurvetson

-Siraj Raval

Honorable Mentions, the Parody Tech Accounts:

-Not Jonny Ive

-Bored Elon Musk

Thanks! I'll check out naval@

@BenedictEvans

I like to use Otherside to create different lists on different topics[1]. You just pick the person most likely to be following a certain niche of users, and Otherside creates a private list for you. You can make the list public and share it with others if you want.

[1]: https://otherside.site

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