How did I come up with this list?
I have worked, tweeted or collaborated with everyone in this list.
I pulled a majority of them from memory, if I know your Twitter handle you must be doing something right 😉
Additionally I looked at my Tweeting-With list calculated using Formulists.
I don't usually participate in #FF on Twitter as it tends to drown out Twitter timelines every Friday with meaningless bulk recommendations. I did use a list to add quality tweeps to but have stopped updating that. I primarily engage off my lists like IRL (In Real Life), Sports Digital & Tweeting-With among others so they provide the best guide if you want to know who I am tweeting with.
These are tweeps that I recommend you follow in 2012 from varying fields – sports, digital, startups, business but all produce quality on Twitter.
It is not an exhaustive list of everyone we worked with, if you think we should add someone else or even yourself please tweet me @seancallanan or use the button below.
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List is in alphabetical order by Twitter handle, not playing favourites 😉
Sports Geek 2011 Follow Friday
| Who? | Why? | |
| Anna Coates | Digital & direct marketing is what Anna knows, expecting a big year in 2012 from Anna | |
| Anthony Alsop | Guy behind Richmond Tigers & started DSS which gets better every year | |
| Alana Fisher | Ran social for Aussie World Cup bid now working for Amex | |
| Brendan Curran | New comer from Sydney Thunder starting 3 weeks before Big Bash season, now he has his eye in. | |
| Cam McHarg | Marketing and sponsorship who loves his baseball | |
| Chris Appleford | 2011 was big leaving the Storm for Big Bash but now will head up Comms for Melbourne Rebels | |
| Daniel Pinne | Former @SportsGeekDI now behind the scenes at Melbourne Storm | |
| Dan Butterly | @SportzfanRadio US reporter & associate commissioner of Mountain West, long time friend. | |
| Daniel Eade | He may tease with NBL stories but is always entertaining on SportzfanRadio | |
| Dan McLaren | Started UK Sports Network now has a real job a We Are Social. | |
| Dan Harbison | Keeps TrailBlazers at the front of sports digital, sometimes works too hard to tweet | |
| Darren Rovell | Tweets about #sportzbiz all the time, now has SB Game On TV show | |
| Dion Bennett | Sports Geek intern who learned a lot (we hope) & expect bigger things in 2012 (we know) | |
| Stephen Downes | Alway has a say & Never forgets to take Twitter too seriously | |
| John Dyson | GM of new Sydney Thunder new to Twitter but working to connect with players & fans | |
| Ed Wyatt | There isnt a sport that Ed won't comment on & he knows his stuff | |
| Emma Quayle | Age Journo, knows her footy & unlike many journos knows how to use Twitter | |
| Erin Sharoni | Works on SB Game On with Darren Rovell & is well connected with the NYC sports scene | |
| Finn Bradshaw | Keeps Herald Sun SuperFooty site up & running everytime you update your SuperCoach team. | |
| George Rose | Not sure if highlight was winning NRL with Manly or the fact he was trending worldwide on Twitter | |
| Gus Gould | NRL Footy show panelist now diving into Twitter to help Penrith Panthers. A for effort, Gus. | |
| Daniel Harford | Former AFL player now in the media with SEN, using Twitter in shows more than others | |
| Harry O'Brien | Pulled back from 2010 form in 2011 expect Harry to be back rocking fans in Harry's World in 2012 | |
| Heath Evans | Marketing & Comms guys with AFLPA always with an opinion on #SMinOZ | |
| Yvonne Adele | Runs crowd-sourced Ideas business when not speaking at conferences | |
| Justin Bloome | Creative brain behind The Village Agency | |
| Jeremy Monahan | Does all the heavy lifting at Rabbitohs that Russell Crowe doesn't do (so all of it really) | |
| Jess Nichols | Always running cool stuff online including @awesomefoundsyd & has hugged founders of Foursquare | |
| Jessica Ivers | Helped Manly Sea Eagles scoop the NRL awards for Social Media & Fan Engagement in 2011 look out Bulldogs fans. | |
| John McCauley | Digital guy behind MLSE which is Leafs & Raptors to start with. | |
| Jonah Ballow | Content guy from TWolves now working in NYC for Knicks, you can see him on KnicksNow.com | |
| Jonathon Simpson | Former Essendon Insider about to start at AFL Media, loves sports digital & fan engagement | |
| Jorden Teo | To use hoops terms a “swingman” runs Perth Wildcats digital as well as helping out on membership | |
| Josh Rowe | Will be at every Twitter event of 2012 aka #Totttie but as GM of Tarrazz Australia expect him to do some work too | |
| Justin Barrie | Canberra guy running @perkler check it out | |
| Kim Skildum Reid | Great resource for sponsorship – selling & buying | |
| Kirsten Corio | Back hard at work at NBA HQ keeping the NBA teams at the front of sports digital world | |
| Kyle Spencer | Was with the GS Warriors now working behind the scenes at UStream | |
| Lewis Howes | Keeps hitting it info products out of the park, reason? Quality content | |
| Lou Imbriano | Runs #sbchat & always has great insight into Winning the Customer (his book) | |
| Scott Spiridigliozzi | Works as hard for the TWolves as his last name is to spell | |
| Lauren Teague | PGA Tour has many social pieces Lauren pulls them together with no need for a caddy from New Zealand | |
| Matt Baker | GM of Marketing at Canterbury Bulldogs building a great digital team at Belmore | |
| Nick Truelson | Loves fan engagement & digital marketing expect big things from Western Bulldogs | |
| Nick Monroe | Digital guy behind Bucks.com sees plenty of Aussie traffic thanks to Andrew Bogut | |
| Brendan Lewis | Guy behind Churchill Club & several other ventures, follow his articles for great business advice | |
| Oscar Ugaz | Former Real Madrid digital guy, understands what digital fans want | |
| Paul Dalligan | Loves his NRL & has a interesting turn of phrase on Twitter and @SportzfanRadio | |
| Peter Robert Casey | The original Hoops “microblogger” if you follow NBA, NCAA, High school basketball you already follow him if not you should. | |
| Peter Stringer | Runs the digital at Celtics, spoke in Sydney this year. Knows sports digital space | |
| Darren Rowse | Old school Twitter guy, was working with it BA (Before Ashton) understands how the blogging game works. | |
| Rhett Bartlett | Won't get picked by Richmond under father-son but brings football & movies to Twitter game | |
| Francis Leach | Was SEN host, now with ABC Grandstand. Doesn't pull punches on Twitter, the way it should be. | |
| Steve Sammartino | Hard to keep him to 140 characters he knows so much stuff – startups, advertising, mobile, airplanes, you name it. | |
| Jon Manning | Launched crowd-sourced pricing solution PricingProphets.com | |
| Sarah Brady | Works for Rabbitohs but from her tweets appears to be Liz Lemon | |
| Matthew Gepp | West Coast Eagles Social Media Executioner (that's what we'd like to see as his title) helped launched The Swoop using Sports DP | |
| Scott Kilmartin | Not sure if account actually run by @GusTheBoxer but does produce some sweet haul gear | |
| Sean Malarkey | Partner with Lewis they are LeBron & Wade duo of internet marketing (Chris Bosh not needed) | |
| Michelle Matthews | Just follow her to be jealous of her globe-trotting lifestyle putting together new Secrets guides | |
| Shane Harmon | Success of 2011 with #RWC2011, knows ticketing, social & overly competitive about Foursquare mayorships | |
| Adam Aron | New CEO & Owner of 76ers engaging fans via Twitter, we need to see more of this in 2012 | |
| Scott Pendlebury | Still finding his feet with digital but one of the first Australian athletes on Tout | |
| Christopher Lee | Sports Marketing & PhD, smart guy always sharing good content | |
| Mark Seymour | Keeps the @SportzfanRadio crew in check & no longer tweets about Brett Favre | |
| Brian Srabian | The “Engager” of @sfgiants, great guy who leads the MLB in use of Twitter | |
| Stephen Cleary | Ran #Stevesjob to score a sweet intern gig with Adidas Digital, watch out 2012 | |
| Tariq Ahmad | A social media researcher that shares everything he finds! Loves location based services started @SportsShadow | |
| Tom Nickson | New Digital Dog at Western Bulldogs will be looking to see how he performs with a full pre-season | |
| Tim Bull | Helped build SportsDP & sold Trunk.ly to AVOS, quality guy | |
| Trevor Young | PR Warrior keeps producing content & has his say on everything | |
| Mitchell Scott | Producer of HarfTime on SEN always ready to comment on all things sport | |
| Ted Johnson | Expect more tweets from Ted with Rubio & Williams teaming up with Kevin Love on exciting TWolves team |
Who would you send out a #FF for 2011?
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