I’ve had a few debates this week with inanimate objects and icons… in real life. One of them (@acatinatree) suggested that she had a more ‘real’ experience online by creating a fake avatar to hide behind. I thought this was quite interesting. She blogged about it.

She does have a point – I just disagree.

So I thought – in the spirit of #followfriday – that I’d put together a list of people like @acatinatree that I believe are actually worth following on Twitter. Not all are completely anonymous in avatar and name but they do come close.

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1.		@eskimo_sparky Former CIO turned recruiter Website: www.happener.com 1392 followers
2.		@acatinatree Filmmaker, music obsessive, social media, SEO geek Website: www.theyearofthecat.com 1072 followers
3.		@Noodles83 Curly blond hair, shoe fetish, mad about music Website: nada 87 followers
4.		@knotty Creative Technologist @ Holler Sydney Website: www.managedobjects.com.au 177 followers
5.		@agent_X I am a digital ninja (Shhh..don’t tell) Website: www.thatwebsiteguy.com.au 198 followers
6.		@snowkitten Ambitious, LAX-addicted, Motorcycle Lover Website: www.snowkitten.redbubble.com 613 followers
7.		@ag_reeves Principle theorist GYLAM viral index measurement Website (well… sort of): http://tinyurl.com/67z5oq 108 followers
8.		@stilgherrian Failed, glamorous candidate #12 for Bangkok Govr Website: www.stilgherrian.com 1851 followers
9.		@SilkCharm Social Networks Strategist, World of Warcraft addict Website: www.laurelpapworth.com 3923 followers
10.		@eweebug Nada Website: nada 11 followers
11.		@cowboycaleb Popular infamous Asian blogger. Website: cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com 349 followers
12.		@BrandDNA Advertising blogger dood Website: branddna.blogspot.com 838 followers
13.		@Glebe2037 Self-confessed geek, awesome photographer Website: Flickr portfolio 852 followers
14.		@Mister_Black No desk, no suit. Community, SM & Cafe explorer Website: nada 595 followers

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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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