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22 Local Twitterers: your favorites?

Over our Dine Out for Life lunch, jseattle and I talked about the various ways to find out information about happenings in Our Fair City (other than reading the fabulous CHS blog, of course).

Twitter is all the rage these days. All the kids are doing it. Love it or hate it, it’s out there. I followed a handful of new accounts yesterday when I found that Volunteer Park Cafe, Poppy, and Coastal Kitchen all have Twitter accounts for their restaurants (though Poppy’s isn’t yet being used). This got me thinking that there are probably many other Capitol Hill-local businesses that I might be interested in but don’t know about, and maybe you all know them. Maybe you don’t know some of the ones I have. Shall we share?

I tried not to include accounts that are just headline feeds of blog posts. Some of these aren’t being used much yet (Poppy, SeattlePD/FD, etc) but might be soon. If I omitted your business it’s likely because I forgot or don’t know about it, so please, add it in a comment! I’d love to see this as a constantly-updated thread as more and more places use this service.

 

Coastal Kitchen: @coastalkitchen

Tidbit Bistro: @tidbitbistro

Jerry Traunfeld: @poppyseattle

Dana Cree (Poppy’s pastry chef): @deensie

Volunteer Park Cafe: @volunteerpark

Molly Moon Ice Cream: @mollymoon

Marination Mobile (future Korean Hawaiian food truck coming to CH): @curb_cuisine

Skillet Street Food: @skilletstfood

Boom Noodle: @BoomNoodle

Cupcake Royale: @CupcakeRoyale

Caffe Vita: @CaffeVita

Victrola Coffee: @VictrolaCoffee

Emerson Salon: @emersonsalon

The Calf and Kid (future cheese shop coming to the Hill): @calfandkid

Seattle University: @seattleu

Northwest Film Forum: @nwfilmforum

Central District News: @CDNews

CD News Scanner (East Precinct police activity): @cdscanner

City Stimulus: @citystimulus

Seattle PD (not yet used): @SeattlePD

Seattle Fire Dept (not yet used): @SeattleFire

Seattle City Light (not yet used): @SEACityLight

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Nikki aka @teawithatree
Nikki aka @teawithatree
14 years ago

follow on the hill. :)

TroyJMorris
14 years ago

I really am sorry, but I stopped caring when I read we’re getting a Hawaiian food truck.

Seriously?! More info?

josh
josh
14 years ago

I love how people are really excited about ways that they can subscribe to advertisements. It’s THE FUTURE on your mobile.

Victoria
Victoria
14 years ago

For the music fans: , @chopsueyseattle, @comettavern
For the politically involved: @washingtonbus

jseattle
jseattle
14 years ago

Definitely more to do with Twitter. As bitter josh notes, it’s the future!

One thing we’ll be doing on CHS is finding ways to let people broadcast their twitter presence here. In the beginning, that will probably mean simple things like making it easy to do what you did with your ‘name’ including your twitter handle.

jseattle
jseattle
14 years ago

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/voracious/2009/04/marination_

“Not your average food truck, the pair will serve foods as diverse as tacos, miso ginger chicken, kimchi fried rice with fried egg on top, Kalua pig sliders, and SPAM sliders.”

Art Walker
Art Walker
14 years ago
josh
josh
14 years ago

no, even though I only follow a few people I know, I do think it really is fascinating that people are so excited about subscribing to commercial feeds. It sort of flies in the face of the fear that mass customization will kill revenue by allowing people to tune out of ads and into content, it’s just changing the way that these places advertise, probably for the more effective.

jdavin
jdavin
14 years ago

I find Twitter impossible to use because their Search feature is terrible and it can never find the people that I know are on twitter but I don’t know their twitter alias. For example, I know Collin’s Pub has a twitter feed but the search can’t find it.
I don’t understand the recent news about Twitter taking off; discoverability of twitter feeds is a really basic thing that they should have nailed by now.

TroyJMorris
14 years ago

Considering they couldn’t even keep up the service regularly a year ago and have no descernable business model, I’m wondering how they made it this far.

I just use Google and search for a person’s name + twitter and it works pretty well for me.

TroyJMorris
14 years ago

Thanks! I’m so excited. I don’t like how it’s only Th-St, but I understand they need to go to other hoods. I’m so excited for SPAM sliders. And kimchi. Oh god I love kimchi.