PD Smith

The Followables

04 April 2010 | cities, Twitter | One comment

Twit­ter is great fun. Yes, it can be dis­tract­ing, as many writ­ers have com­plained. But hey, so is life!

Twit­ter is also very use­ful. I’ve made con­tact with many peo­ple who share my fas­ci­na­tion with the sub­ject I’m research­ing for my next book — the his­to­ry and future of cities. I’ve list­ed near­ly a hun­dred of these peo­ple here. I rec­om­mend them — they’re well worth fol­low­ing.

It looks like some peo­ple have found my tweets use­ful too: the oth­er day the cul­tur­al news web­site Fla­vor­wire includ­ed me on a list of the “10 Book Types You Should Fol­low on Twit­ter”. Quite an hon­our when you think it includes peo­ple like Sarah Wein­man (@sarahw), Ron Charles(@roncharles), the Wash­ing­ton Post’s fic­tion edi­tor, as well as book web­site The Mil­lions (@The_Millions).

Oh, and by the way — I have my own list of book peo­ple to fol­low on Twit­ter here. So what are you wait­ing for?

One comment so far:

  1. michael | 31 May 2010

    how’s the cities book com­ing along, when will we be able to read it ?