Lots of Bay Area startup chatter on Twitter
As I’ve written about many times, I’m of the often-repeated notion that the SF Bay area is a one-of-a-kind place for entrepreneurs. There’s lots of advantages, but one great one is the constant casual chatter of other entrepreneurs and CEOs here.
I quickly combed my tweets for today and made a list of active users of Twitter who also happen to be founder/CEOs in the companies around here. Almost all of them are running VC-backed startups, and they are among the best folks to learn from. I’m purposely leaving out obvious choices like @ev and conference types that get enough visibility as it is 
The quick list of folks you might follow on Twitter
Here we go:
| Albert Lai |
http://twitter.com/albertsupdates |
Kontagent |
| Bob Ippolito |
http://twitter.com/etrepum |
Mochi Media |
| Chris Lunt |
http://twitter.com/chrislunt |
Nombray, Friendster, etc. |
| Daniel Ha |
http://twitter.com/danielha |
Disqus |
| Darian Shirazi |
http://twitter.com/darian314 |
Fwix, Facebook |
| David Weekly |
http://twitter.com/dweekly |
PBWiki |
| Gabe Rivera |
http://twitter.com/gaberivera |
Techmeme |
| Garry Tan |
http://twitter.com/garrytan |
Posterous |
| Jon Aizen |
http://twitter.com/yonajon |
Dapper |
| Jonathan Abrams |
http://twitter.com/abrams |
Socializr, Friendster |
| Joyce Kim |
http://twitter.com/joycekim |
Soompi |
| Lane Becker |
http://twitter.com/monstro |
Get Satisfaction, Adaptive Path |
| Max Levchin |
http://twitter.com/mlevchin |
Slide, Paypal |
| Merci Grace |
http://twitter.com/merci |
Gamelayers |
| Ming Yeow Ng |
http://twitter.com/mingyeow |
MrTweet |
| Peter Pham |
http://twitter.com/peterpham |
Billshrink, Photobucket |
| Philip Kaplan |
http://twitter.com/pud |
Adbrite, Fucked Company |
| Sachin Rekhi |
http://twitter.com/sachinrekhi |
(stealth startup), Anywhere.fm |
| Scott Rafer |
http://twitter.com/rafer |
Lookery, MyBlogLog |
| Siqi Chen |
http://twitter.com/blader |
Serious Business (Friends for Sale) |
| Ted Rheingold |
http://twitter.com/tedr |
Dogster |
If you’re not on the list, then I didn’t see you use Twitter in the last day
And last but not least, you can follow me on Twitter here.
Am I missing anyone? Just comment if you have recommendations.
New here?
Interesting list – one typo: Joyce Kim's company is http://www.soompi.com/
I was in their office yesterday
Benjamin
3 Mar 09 at 7:35 pm
Not entrepreneurs per se, but what about Jeff Clavier and Dave McClure?
Chris Yeh
3 Mar 09 at 7:42 pm
duh! just fixed it- thanks.
Andrew Chen
3 Mar 09 at 7:50 pm
thanks..i might follow them too @rvenkata
Venkat
3 Mar 09 at 8:31 pm
What about us poor cousins up here in Seattle?
Bob Runge
3 Mar 09 at 8:42 pm
There's a reason I kept pushing you to move down here… =)
Kevin Akira Lee
3 Mar 09 at 9:21 pm
you are the man
Andrew Chen
3 Mar 09 at 10:07 pm
Thanks Andrew. I'm just trying to keep up with you
Seriously, you're part of the reason I chose to focus more on posting value and knowledge instead of where I was having drinks with friends (well I made a private account for posting the later 
I've written my heart and brain out in our company blog (blog.dogster.com plug plug) and think it's at 175 RSS readers. Twitter gives me 3500 followers and I don't even have to spellcheck. Wicked.
Ted Rheingold
3 Mar 09 at 10:49 pm
Admob @admob,
famolari
4 Mar 09 at 11:23 am
Just of the top of my head I know there are many more-
@micropat for AddToAny founder “Pat Diven”
@loic – for Seesmic founder
Julia
4 Mar 09 at 11:48 am
Kevin Rose, Digg, twitter.com/kevinrose
Aaron Patzter, Mint, twitter.com/apatzer
Munjal Sha, Like, twitter.com/munjalshah
Reid Hoffmann, LinkedIn, twitter.com/quixotic
Can't believe there aren't more people following Max Levchin.
Alex MacGregor
4 Mar 09 at 12:43 pm
WTF…. Wow, I've finally made it on a list … done up by, of all people, my PROFESSIONAL SUPER HERO, Andrew Chen — that puts me, and Max Levchin, Joyce Kim, Siqi Chen, Jonathan Abrams, Ming Yeow Ng, Scott Rafer, Sachin Rekhi, Ted Rehingold, Gave Rivera, David Weekly, Peter Pham on the same list…. that blows my mind. These are some of the smartest and most interesting people I know. I have no idea how I got on that list. But that explains why I've gotta more 100x more followers it seems in the past 24 hours than ever before. Thanks for the kind recognition Andrew. I'm just a fan boy… its embarrassing. That list was the the top highlight of the day/month/quarter… hahah… rock on.
Albert Lai
4 Mar 09 at 3:43 pm
I'm going to do an angels/investors addition to this sometime
Andrew Chen
4 Mar 09 at 5:04 pm
Andrew Chen
4 Mar 09 at 5:05 pm
And I follow both accounts
Seriously though, you're one of the only guys out there willing to share real data and substantive ideas – keep it up!
Andrew Chen
4 Mar 09 at 5:06 pm
i always think the corporate twitter accounts seem less attractive to follow – now specific people from admob, that would be much better.
Andrew Chen
4 Mar 09 at 5:06 pm
Hey Ted. Great to bump into here and see that you are still doing well. I recently became an entrepreneur myself and launched (the first site) of my web games network. I hope to make it onto this this list someday too…
Hope to stay in touch.
Rob Giuffre
http://www.chinesegum.com
http://twitter.com/Game_Of_The_Day
rob@chinesegum.com
RG
5 Mar 09 at 8:37 am
@ramit – Ramit Sethi of PBwiki / Iwillteachyoutoberich.com
Chris Jennings
5 Mar 09 at 8:47 pm
efacls (eric allen) – CEO http://www.dijit.com/social media play
http://mashable.com/2009/02/10/dijit/
skot
6 Mar 09 at 2:25 pm
I admit, I have not been on this webpage in a long time… however it was another joy to see It is such an important topic and ignored by so many, even professionals. I thank you to help making people more aware of possible issues.
Great stuff as usual….
bonos de juego de los casinos
7 Apr 09 at 5:08 am
Thanks for posting this Andrew, it was really helpful!
http://www.twitter.com/brettkopf
Brett Kopf
14 Jul 09 at 2:33 pm
I never thought to follow people by geographic location, but it's a good technique for local businesses to use in their advertising and marketing strategy.
mlgreen8753
30 Jul 09 at 4:36 pm
I never thought to follow people by geographic location, but it's a good technique for local businesses to use in their advertising and marketing strategy.
mlgreen8753
30 Jul 09 at 11:36 pm