Courtesy Twitter Wiki

Twitter strategies are critical to successfully extracting as much value and information out of your efforts on Twitter as possible. Chief amongst these critical strategies, besides identifying your purpose for being there in the first place, is who you the entrepreneur or company should follow. If you are an aspiring social media marketer, looking to learn and leverage social networks, and interested in enriching your knowledge base the following are the best people and companies to follow on Twitter (in no particular order) :

• Mashable: incredibly rich source of social media information
• Jeremiah Owyang: Forrester analyst “fire” starter, conversational black belt
• Hubspot: creators of Twittergrader and tools for social media strategists; include Mike Volpe in your follow
• Pat Kitano: social media strategist, former Wall St. investment banker, thought leader behind Domus Breaking News Project
• Tim O’Reilly: true thought leader of Web 2.0 movement, social media maverick
• Peter Kim: Peter Kim’s blog is full of incredible resources and ideas. Besides who else can name their writing platform after a John Malkovich movie?
• David Henderson: former CBS corespondent and new social media strategist, David has created the Internet Newsroom to position company’s online presence
• Kevin Marks: Oxford educated Google’s expert in emerging technologies and their cultural impact
• Robert Scoble: unassuming, self deprecating blog pioneer and technology social media strategist
• Tech Crunch: I am not a Michael Arrington fan but I am a fan of his site’s relevance and breaking news power

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