Inspired by Lucio Ribeiro’s (@lucio_ribeiro) list 20 Australians you should be following on Twitter I thought I’d introduce you to a few people I believe are worth following.
The criteria: under 150 followers but most importantly they needed to be recently, usefully, interestingly and significantly active (with one or two exceptions that I know will come good).
1. Marty Wirth @martybigtime (61 followers)
Frontman for Modular -home to The Presets, The Avalanches, Bang Gang Deejays, Wolfmother. Super smart guy. Needs to Tweet more but reckon he will.
2. Erik Ingvoldstad @ingvoldSTAR (82 followers)
Norwegian online copywriter turned Executive Creative Director, McCann Sydney. I look at this man through a glass wall all day. His profile picture is worth the trip alone.
3. Lifeatthebottom @lifeatthebottom (88 followers)
I think these guys (plural?) are Melbournian creative types. Juniors. I like that they’re having a go – didn’t even need a brief! Cool site too.
4. Tom Kelshaw @tomkelshaw (134 followers)
Tom’s a very smart cookie from Sydney currently in a Brazillian favella helping local communities engage with the internet. Would love to work with him again one day.
5. Kieran Ots @otsmeister (59 followers)
Digital Creative Director at Leo Burnett Sydney. Blogs, writes fiction, tumblrs and a tonne more. Deep thinker.
6. Erietta @erietta (68 followers)
Hilarious user experience type from Daemon.
7. Chloe Sasson @chloerobot (68 followers)
Currently at Google. Formerly of MySpace, Inertia Music… Writes music stuff for Sydney Morning Herald (still doing this, C?).
8. Binh Wilson @binhwilson (15 followers)
Binh is behind the massive Huggies online community. Has worked at Tribal DDB, STW360. Bit quiet on Twitter but she’s one to watch.
9. Sudeep Gohil @sudeepgohil (143 followers)
Sudeep’s the Planning Director at Droga 5. He’s an Aussie but had a prolific tenure in the States at W+K. Great to see him on Twitter and evangelising it to his ‘more seasoned’ industry friends.
10. Brendan Willenberg @bwillenberg (35 followers)
Copywriter at McCann Sydney. Represents new generation of creative thinker for whom emerging channels are opportunities rather than obstacles. Witty dood too.
11. Jo Sabin @roneo (35 followers)
Another deep thinker. Into human behaviour, tribes. She probably reads more than you so worth following for that alone.
12. Mojo @nine43 (19 followers)
Jon’s an eclectic ideas man, designer, creative director type currently in Beijing at Enfatico. Tune in for visual and cultural updates.
13. Mark Cripps @crippo (60 followers)
Mark’s based in Hong Kong and has some posh job title like ‘Head Digitalisationer’ for MRM. But despite his posh title, is a pretty down to earth, interesting guy.
14. James Drewe @jamesdrewe (55 followers)
I don’t know James offline but he works at Starcom Digital in Brisbane and seems like he has lots to offer.
15. Scott Esdaile @scottesdaile (45 followers)
Another Brisbane-ite that I don’t know and actually only stumbled across as I was writing this post. He blogs and is a jazz musician on top of digital marketing stuff. Cool.
16. Aaron Michie @ordnung (75 followers)
I used to sit next to this crazy New Zealander. He’s currently head digital strategeriser at BMF.
(bonus addition) 17. Tarnya Baohm @TarnyaBaohm (126 followers)
Tarnya rightly pointed out to me (after this post went live) that she, too, is a future superstar. My bad. Tarnya is the digital marketing manager at RaboPlus. I missed her the first time because I hadn’t seen her getting busy but turns out she’s been Twitterating quite a bit.
Photo courtesy of Nick P.
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