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…
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Hey… just an fyi, I see that Will Critchlow’s Twitter link is listed incorrectly…
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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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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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Cheers Will/Matt – Amended now.
James – got you on my follow list, good to see you on here…
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
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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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!
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…
@Jon – Have you been “kicking around” FOR or WITH DaveN…. for 10 years… some of those stories you guys told me… lol.
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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ha ha ha. Maybe I should be in “Honourable Mention”
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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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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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
Wow – Thanks so much Pete! I’m chuffed to bits that you think I’m even interesting
Just a bit – My inbox seems to be taking a pounding…
Noted – especially the links. TBH Mel below suggested same thing.
Nice one – thanks for the inclusion.
A few people there I hadn’t yet checked out on twitter.
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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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Thanks for a great list. Been looking for UK Tweeps to follow.
Super post!
Great to see a bunch of UK Tweeps here.. following all of you
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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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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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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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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
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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