Photography on Twitter!

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The first time I heard of Twitter, I was of the impression that this was just another fad. Now, after several months of using Twitter, my opinion has changed. Twitter has morphed into a platform of communication where people share their experiences and ideas in 140 characters! At times it is so refreshing, compared to going through a long blog post! So, the trick with Twitter is to filter out the noise and pick up what you want, otherwise it's just a massive chat room with people talking their minds off. Being an ardent photography nut, I follow several personalities on Twitter and now there are even photography sites on there. Let's look at some interesting people and photography sites on Twitter.

There are several photographers on Twitter and, depending on your interest in photography and the interestingness of their tweets, you can select whoever you'd like to follow. Remember that this is just another way of learning with a lot of fun thrown in. These are a bunch of photography enthusiasts that I recommend following, also watch out for "Follow Friday" recommendations. It's a feature where people you follow recommend other interesting people to follow!

Now look who's jumped onto the bandwagon! Popular photography sites now have their presence on Twitter as a way of gathering more readership to their sites, as well as to keep in touch with their readers. Most of all they give out great links, titles of upcoming articles and other tidbits of information that saves you the time of visiting their home page for new updates. Here a bunch of popular photography sites on Twitter.

Remember as with any tool in today's technology era, if handled improperly, it can be just noise. There are so many Twitterers out there, it's difficult to follow everybody! So choose wisely and you will be blessed with first hand knowledge from the "mouth of the horse" itself. So learning photography need not be done with classical methods like workshops and books, today there are other avenues like podcasts and crowd sourcing tools like Twitter which will bring more information than you will ever be able to learn. Remember, the sky is the limit! Oh, by the way, if you feel this article has helped you in getting more from social networking and would like to know more, why don't you follow me on Twitter. ;-)

Update: There is a new database like page which lists and refreshes regularly showing all the Photography folks on Twitter, the page can be accessed at Photocritic's Photographers on Twitter, although I have to warn you that there are too many entries in there and it mind be a little difficult to find people.A better solutiont is to find and follow people on the Twiiter directory pages called Wefollow. It has a listing of most influential Photographers on Twitter, which frankly makes ore sense to me.