I sent a list to a colleague new to Twitter today, and I thought I'd share it here. I selected people I'm following that might interest Sydney. She's an extremely talented performing arts teacher, very artsy and cool. This list will give her a range of what you can do with Twitter. So, this is sort of my recommended list of people to start following plus a few others that I thought might specifically interest her. Any others you'd add?
http://twitter.com/Tim_Gibbons
http://twitter.com/teach42
http://twitter.com/BarackObama
http://twitter.com/newmediajim
http://twitter.com/acarvin
http://twitter.com/zephoria
http://twitter.com/kanter
http://twitter.com/ewanmcintosh
http://twitter.com/shareski
http://twitter.com/SantaClaus
http://twitter.com/Techmeme
http://twitter.com/Riptide_Furse
http://twitter.com/mashable
http://twitter.com/jonnygoldstein
http://twitter.com/willrich45
http://twitter.com/edtechtalk
http://twitter.com/fastcompany
http://twitter.com/coolcatteacher
http://twitter.com/Pistachio
http://twitter.com/mscofino
http://twitter.com/UstreamTV
http://twitter.com/mediasnackers
http://twitter.com/TwitterLit
http://twitter.com/MacLife
http://twitter.com/TwitterMeThis
http://twitter.com/kathyschrock
http://twitter.com/langwitches
http://twitter.com/edubloggercon
http://twitter.com/smartinez
http://twitter.com/BeckettsDad
http://twitter.com/Lifehacker
http://twitter.com/ekornblut
http://twitter.com/QueenofSpain
http://twitter.com/digitalteacher
http://twitter.com/Westleyf
http://twitter.com/guykawasaki
http://twitter.com/KidderLit
http://twitter.com/torres21
http://twitter.com/tavissmiley
http://twitter.com/joebjr
http://twitter.com/senatorgrant
http://twitter.com/cheyne4cy
http://twitter.com/vbek
http://twitter.com/alexanderrusso
UPDATE:
This isn't supposed to be a Best Of list... just some suggestions custom tailored for Sydney. It includes people in her industry, a few of our current colleagues, funky people I think she'd be interested in follow. It's also just a basic list to get start with, and my advice would be to listen to these people's twitter conversations and figure out who other people that are worth listening to!
My Twitterverse had a couple of other suggestions:
http://twitter.com/cburell
http://twitter.com/wfryer
http://twitter.com/featheredflower
http://twitter.com/Luke1946
