You know what I like most about twitter? That it has the power of RSS feeds while keeping the conversational (and fun) aspect that made chat and email so popular.
Twitter has become so widely adopted that as a researcher you can find very useful info in real time. And fortunately, technology and design are two very popular subjects in Twitter. For this article, I selected a group of 20 great Twitter accounts you should follow to be up to date, and in contact, with top quality Photoshop, Photography and Design informational sources.
I will start with my own Twitter account. The Development01 Network is a group of sites that I own and manage myself. The most important of those sites are Photoshop Roadmap and Creative Closeup. In my Twitter account I tweet everyday about Photoshop tutorials and design resources. From time to time I engage on certain conversations, but mostly I provide useful and interesting links.
From Digital Photography School’s web site: Discover how to use your digital camera to its full potential with our Digital Photography Tips. We are a community of photographers of all experience levels who come together to learn, share and grow in our understanding of photography..
From Designer Depot’s Twitter bio: Webdesigner Depot is one of the most popular blogs about web design trends, tutorials and much more. It’s run by Walter Apai, a web designer from Vancouver.
From PsdTuts’ web site: Psdtuts+ is a blog/Photoshop site made to house and showcase some of the best Photoshop tutorials around. We publish tutorials that not only produce great graphics and effects, but explain the techniques behind them in a friendly, approachable manner.
From Photojojo’s Twitter bio: Amit, Kelly, and Susan. WIth our powers combined, we are the world’s awesomest photography newsletter!!!
From Abduzeedo’s blog: The idea behind this blog is primarily to be a channel for me to write down some ideas, experiments, news, and a lot of thing that I see online and probably will forget in a couple of months. Basically it is an archive of my adventures online as a designer on the daily basis.
From Smashing Magazine’s Twitter bio: Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine, an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.
From Six Revision’s blog: Web developer/designer and founder of Six Revisions. Six Revisions is a weblog the provides practical, useful information for the modern, standards-compliant web designer and web developer. It seeks to present exceptional, noteworthy tips, tutorials, and resources that the modern web professional will appreciate.
From Photoshop Ninja’s web site: Expert Photoshop tips and tricks for designers and photographers since 2005.
From Bittbox blog: I like to give away only the best quality stuff to help designers everywhere. I also like to post workflow tips to help people work faster. These are the posts where everyone can chime in until we find the best way to do a certain task.
From Computer Arts Magazine Twitter bio: The world’s best-selling creative magazine.
From Obsidian Dawn web site: Obsidian Dawn started out as a resource for free Photoshop brushes, patterns, and tutorials. It has expanded, and now offers all kinds of graphic design resources, all for free.
From Peachpit TV Twitter bio: Educating the world one video at a time.
From Twitter Backgrounds Gallery Twitter bio: A showcase of unique twitter backgrounds. Proud of yours? Submit it to the gallery!
From Reserves’ Twitter bio: A premium visual design resource. Typefaces - Stock Art - Stock Image.
From I Love Typography’s Twitter bio: Johno, founder of iLT. I quite like type (fonts). Also tweet about other design-related matters..
From Layers Magazine’s web site: The how-to magazine for all things Adobe.
From Naldz Graphics’ Twitter bio: Naldz Graphics is a Design Blog dedicated to help Readers by providing some good information and resources which they can use.
Providing some tutorials, tips, resources, inspirations, freebies and other interesting things.
From Specky Boy web site: I try to cover every aspect of web design and development offering free and high quality resources as well as attempting to inspire through our showcases. .
From Noupe’s blog: Noupe passionately delivers stylish and dynamic news for designers and web-developers on all subjects of design, ranging from; CSS, Ajax, Javascript, web design, graphics, typography, advertising & much more. Our goal is to help you communicate effectively on the web with an engaging website or functional interface..
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March 30, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Thanks for the lead - i see some groups/individuals/orgs that i already follow, but the addition is good!
http://twitter.com/travelfox
March 31, 2009 at 1:57 am
Thanks for this list. Many were known already but I found a few new useful contacts to follow. Yet again, twitter provides a great source of inspiration and communication.
March 31, 2009 at 8:32 am
This is really valuable post mate. Thanks.
March 31, 2009 at 8:42 am
very nice post :)
March 31, 2009 at 11:09 am
Thanks for the great post!
March 31, 2009 at 11:49 am
Thanks for the mention, much appreciated!
April 1, 2009 at 9:28 am
Thanks! Great items here.
April 6, 2009 at 10:53 pm
it is a great list of resources. Thanks buddy.
Sudhir Bhatt
April 7, 2009 at 1:51 am
Fantastic resources here thanks a lot for the great post!!!
April 8, 2009 at 10:03 am
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April 8, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Thanks
April 28, 2009 at 10:06 am
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May 5, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Nice list. Another favorite of mine is lynda.com:
http://twitter.com/lyndadotcom
JH
May 12, 2009 at 3:57 am
Great list, I’m following most of them but there are a few I missed. I write about Photoshop too on my blog and also for sitepoint. If anyone would like to follow me my twitter name is http://www.twitter.com/Laughing_Lion
June 22, 2009 at 1:04 am
Hey…that was a real nice list and added al of them. Well, I also have compiled some amazing designers at twitter…surely new from your list ;)
If you miss adding them, you will loose great design resources…I bet!!
July 29, 2009 at 4:57 pm
This brings me to an idea:…
August 10, 2009 at 8:24 pm
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October 20, 2009 at 12:17 pm
After reading this usefull article how to use twitter. I even see some sens in twittering. Thx a lot.
October 22, 2009 at 5:37 am
Oh, I’m starting to used twitter and find your list of interesting to follow specially for Photoshop tweets, as a web developer I must learn.
How about following TechGeeze.com @Follow TechGeeze on Twitter
February 22, 2010 at 11:33 am
Great post! Always looking for new ways to design my Twitter page.
Thanks,
Dave