At this stage you may ask yourself two questions. First question: why would you use Twitter? From a professional point of view, you can build a network of people in your field. You will also be aware of what happens in a particular domain. This is much more dynamic than a forum and it spreads faster than a newsletter.
Second question: what can you write in less than 140 characters? You can share an interesting article, highlight a website, point to a blog post, mention a nice book you have just read, some news you want to discuss about and many other things. In fact I use Twitter when I want to share something that would not deserve a whole post on my blog.
If you want to give Twi…
At this stage you may ask yourself two questions. First question: why would you use Twitter? From a professional point of view, you can build a network of people in your field. You will also be aware of what happens in a particular domain. This is much more dynamic than a forum and it spreads faster than a newsletter.
Second question: what can you write in less than 140 characters? You can share an interesting article, highlight a website, point to a blog post, mention a nice book you have just read, some news you want to discuss about and many other things. In fact I use Twitter when I want to share something that would not deserve a whole post on my blog.
If you want to give Twitter a try, here is a list of data miners on Twitter. I have also mentioned their blog or company when available:
- analyticbridge (AnalyticBridge)
- anand_raj (Datawocky)
- BeyeNETWORK (Beye Network)
- DatabaseJournal (The Database Journal)
- DataMiningBlog (Data Mining Research)
- DeanAbbott (Abbott Analytics)
- decisionstats (Decision Stats)
- EnterpriseData (The Enterprise Data World Conference)
- Hey_jamie (Jamie’s Junk)
- IntelligentEnt (IntelligentEnterprise.com)
- kdnuggets (KDnuggets)
- matthewhurst (Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media)
- minethatdata (MineThatData)
- Neuralmarket (Neural Market Trends)
- peteskomoroch (Data Wrangling)
- SmartDataCo (Smart Data Collective Network)
- Teradata (TeraData)
- tdwi (The Data Warehousing Institute)
- TimManns (A blog by Tim Manns)
Also, don’t forget that you can see the following and followers of everyone. Here is a nice blog for more tips on Twitter. If you are a data miner and if you use Twitter, feel free to add a comment to this post and mention your user name.