As the second part of the Twitter series here on Holistic, I thought I would suggest some of the people I am, and would recommend following on Twitter, and being a SEO in the UK, obviously all these are UK based.
Company: Bronco
WHO?: One of the ‘big dogs’ of UK search marketing, Dave started working in the SEO industry over 10 years ago.
WHY: Hugely popular, highly respected and well worth following
WHERE: http://twitter.com/DaveNaylor
Jon Myers
Company: MediaVest/MVi
WHO?: Head of Search at MediaVest. Industry veteran (sorry Jon)
WHY: Widely respected and a regular speaker on both the SMX and SES speaking circuits. Amongst other things – he’s my boss.
WHERE: http://twitter.com/JonDMyers
Andrew Girdwood (aka Girdy)
Company: BigmouthMedia
WHO?: Head of Search at Bigmouthmedia.
WHY: Hardcore Search Marketeer – and ‘face’ of Bigmouthmedia (erm 
). Passionate about all things search, and if that bores you, theres always his gaming.
WHERE: http://twitter.com/AndrewGirdwood
Patrick Altoft
Company: Blogstorm/Branded3
WHO?: Director of Search at Branded3.
WHY: Been a magic year for Patrick and the Blogstorm blog.
WHERE: http://twitter.com/patrickaltoft
Jim Connolly
Company:
WHO?: Marketing Expert @ jimsmarketingblog.com
WHY: Hugely experienced marketeer and VERY well connected (Over 16000 followers on Twitter)
WHERE: http://twitter.com/Jimconnolly
Ciaran Norris
Company: Altogether Digital
WHO?: SEO and Social Media Director at Altogether Digital
WHY: Entertaining blogger, and if that fails theres always the music commentary.
WHERE: http://twitter.com/ciaranj
Kevin Gibbons
Company: SEOptimise
WHO?: Director of Search at SEOptimise
WHY: Some great posts coming out of SEOptimise at the moment. Worth following for that alone.
WHERE: http://twitter.com/kevgibbo
Mel Carson
Company: Microsoft/MSN
WHO?: Microsoft Adcentre’s Community Manager
WHY: Works for Microsoft apart from anything else (Who would turn down the chance of winning an ‘I’m a PC tshirt). Apart from that his regular commentary is hugely entertaining
WHERE: http://twitter.com/MelCarson
Will Critchlow
Company: Distilled
WHO?: Founder of Distilled with Duncan Morris
WHY: His involvement with SEOMoz is well known, however the site itself is a wealth of information.
WHERE: http://twitter.com/willcritchlow
Rob Kerry
Company: Ayima Search Marketing
WHO?: One of the Ayima Gang
WHY: Entertaining Blogger, and hugely entertaining twitter read not just in terms of latest on hangovers….
WHERE: http://twitter.com/evilgreenmonkey
Others to watch:
Matt Sawyer – DataDial -Online Marketeer, SEO and Social Media Junkie – http://twitter.com/mattuk
Rob Watts – Latitude – SEO – Stephen Pavlovich – Bonytoad – http://twitter.com/bonytoad
Jane Copland – SEOMoz/Ayima – Only here as she isn’t 100% in the UK yet- http://twitter.com/coplandmj
Judith Lewis – I-Level – Search Director at I-Level – http://twitter.com/JudithLewis
Lisa Ditlefsen – Base One – Head of Search at BaseOne – http://twitter.com/LisaDitlefsen
George Hopkin – Johnston Press – SEO Evangelist – http://twitter.com/GeorgeHopkin
Paul Walsh – Various – http://twitter.com/PaulWalsh
Nikki Pilkington – http://twitter.com/nikkipilkington
Dave Davis – RedFly Marketing – http://twitter.com/daveredfly
Dan Alderson – Amaze PLC – http://twitter.com/pinje
and the final one
Company: MediaVest / Holistic Search
WHO?: SEO Manager at MediaVest.
WHY: Why not?
WHERE: http://twitter.com/peteyoung
Thats just some of my recommendations, Please feel free to add yours…
January 7th, 2009 at 4:36 am
Hey… just an fyi, I see that Will Critchlow’s Twitter link is listed incorrectly…
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January 7th, 2009 at 6:40 am
Honoured to be included. Thanks! You got my twitter link wrong though:
twitter.com/willcritchlow
Oh, and I’d add Pete Wailes to that list (and probably lots of other people I haven’t thought of!).
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January 7th, 2009 at 7:45 am
Wow the spam question was tough for this time of the morning
http://www.twitter.com/jp135
shameless plug i know but relevant to the post i think
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January 7th, 2009 at 8:35 am
Cheers Will/Matt – Amended now.
James – got you on my follow list, good to see you on here…
January 7th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Thanks for the mention Pete, but my company link is wrong – it should go to http://www.datadial.net. Either that or Mel hired me without me knowing
January 7th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Also suggest:
http://www.twitter.com/tomcritchlow
http://www.twitter.com/Receptional
http://www.twitter.com/lyndoman
http://www.twitter.com/andyheaps
http://www.twitter.com/robwatts
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January 7th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Thanks for the mention Pete, good list and some good people on it.
Will not take offence at the “veteran” comment! I have been kicking around like DaveN for 10 years so I guess I have to carry that tag!
January 7th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Thanks for that Rishil. Lyndon and Dixon were actually meant to be on there. Guess thats a good reason to not do posts at 12 o’clock at night.
You yourself actually came into consideration for the list…
January 7th, 2009 at 9:33 am
@Jon – Have you been “kicking around” FOR or WITH DaveN…. for 10 years… some of those stories you guys told me… lol.
January 7th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Hey,
Honoured to be on the list. Also a bit surprised as, according to the link, I now seem to be working for Jim Connolly
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January 7th, 2009 at 9:43 am
ha ha ha. Maybe I should be in “Honourable Mention”
January 7th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Thanks Peter – Very Kind
I notice you’ve not tried to win an I’m A PC T-Shirt on my blog!
Comps open to all
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January 7th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Nice post Peter. Surprised you missed Lyndon off the list – I see in the comments that it was a mistake!
A couple of small suggestions to improve this post:
1. Number the people 1 to 10.
2. Make the Twitter addresses linkable so readers can click through to them to add them!
Cheers.
P.s. Shameless plug: http://twitter.com/davidtowers
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January 7th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Great post, was scrambling for the follow button on quite a few of those names which I’d forgotten.
I bet your all going to have quite a spike in your followers by the end of the day
January 7th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Wow – Thanks so much Pete! I’m chuffed to bits that you think I’m even interesting
January 7th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Just a bit – My inbox seems to be taking a pounding…
January 7th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Noted – especially the links. TBH Mel below suggested same thing.
January 7th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Nice one – thanks for the inclusion.
A few people there I hadn’t yet checked out on twitter.
Check out http://tinyurl.com/5d2jg8 to see how I use Twitter! Send me an @ to say Hi!
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January 7th, 2009 at 11:54 am
w00t. Thanks for the mention.
Someone at bigmouthmedia marcoms emailed me in surprise to say; “You made the list!”
Gee. Thanks for the support marcoms!
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January 7th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Thanks for a great list. Been looking for UK Tweeps to follow.
January 7th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Super post!
Great to see a bunch of UK Tweeps here.. following all of you
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January 7th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Thanks Pete =) I thought I was one of the most boring twitterers ever though. Twitterers, now that can’t be a word, surely?
Oh yep it’s official I am the most boring tweetelywhateveryoucallem one of my updates says “I want meatballs” Insightful aren’t I lol.
Thanks again Pete.
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January 7th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Another to add to the list maybe?!
http://twitter.com/yetanotherben
Great list – a couple I had missed so thanks for filling the gaps!
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January 7th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
I was wondering why I got 25 new followers overnight! Thanks Pete
(PS: I *so* should have been listed ahead of Stephen
)
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January 7th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Thanks for the add Pete! I must be the most junior of the lot, but it’s always good to have some more followers and people to follow! Cheers
January 8th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Thanks for the mention Pete, what with all these new eyeballs I’d better keep those booze fuelled tweets to a minimum
p.s theres an issue with the link above…
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Good list, think I have many added already
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