Connect with Folks in Google, Sun, Yahoo, and Microsoft via Twitter
I just noticed that Google has an official Twitter account. This seemed surprising since Google bought micro blogging and Twitter competitor Jaiku in 2007 for an undisclosed ton of money. As it turns out, Jaiku whither away from lack of sunshine and corporate attention while during the same time Twitter has flourish into a vibrant community.
The second pleasant surprise was that there are many Google projects with their own Twitter account. Video and content producers might be interested in YouTube and Blogger updates but software developers might be interested in the App Engine or Google IO tweets.
Here are a list of Twitter accounts for different projects in Google, Sun, Yahoo, and Microsoft. I am sure that some of these accounts are officially bless by corporate PR minions while others seem to be manned by development staff from their respective projects.
- @app_engine
- @Blogger
- @googleapps
- @googlereader
- @googleio
- @googleimages
- @youtube
- @googlegears
- @googledata
Sun
- @glassfish
- @SunNews
- @suncablogs
- @MySQLConf
- @opensolaris
- @sun_follow
- @sunstartup
- @SunCEOBlog
- @sunmicrosystems
- @jruby
- @Team_SDN
- @JavaOneConf
- @netbeans
Yahoo
- @yahoo
- @yahoomovies
- @yahooomg
- @YahooBuzz
- @yprofileblog
- @yahoogroups
- @YahooNews
- @YahooResearch
- @yahoosearchdata
- @yahoogames
- @yahoo_directory
- @yahoofinance
- @ydn
- @yahoo_sports
- @fireeagle
- @YahooGeo
Microsoft
- @MSWindows
- @WindowsLive
- @Live_Search
- @livemesh
- @SharePoint
- @bizspark
- @wmdev
- @microsofttag
- @ch9
- @ch10
- @ch8
- @mixonline
- @MSDN
- @MicrosoftStore
- @MSNdotcom
- @MSLearning
- @msoffice_us
- @MVPAwardProgram
- @MSOfficeResKit
- @Microsoft_EDU
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