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IBM is on Twitter, forty billion times. Who do I follow?


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With another push of IBM into Social Business I decided I should build a list of Twitter accounts that were important. I immediately hit a stumbling block.  We have groups, departments, brands, divisions, people as groups, people, software, events and more.   Plus a list of people that are responsible for social media in the descriptions of some.

Some of the accounts and services are very duplicated.  There are multiple people that seem to be in charge of the areas and it was difficult to even start to build this listing.

***** The good news *****
I made a list of all of these you can simply follow instead of worrying about each account.  You can follow the list here, under IdoNotes lists
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  • IBM - WTF? Locked private account, no tweets. Nothing here.
  • DeveloperWorks - IBM premier Twitter account for everything (34934 followers)
  • IBM News Releases - straight from IBM Communications (10086 followers)
  • IBM Social BizAgenda - officially managed by Alok Chander (social media lead for software group of IBM)  (351 followers)
  • IBM Social Business (IBM SocialBiz) - official IBM social software and collaboration services. Actually points to the next one strangely (1137 followers)
  • IBM Social Business (IBMSocBiz) - another same name account, different id managed by four IBMers (203 followers)
  • IBM Social Research (IBMtweets)- a social computing research project for IBMers and IBM Twitter accounts (2568 followers) but strangely with all these accounts only following 49 accounts
  • IBM Blogger Central - never tweeted, doesn't follow anyone (5302 followers)
  • IBM Business Analytics - run by IBMers (jack Mason, Reilly Starr of IBM Strategic Communications and Christine Kinser) talking about analytics
  • IBM Design - News and updates about design at IBM. from Director of IBM User Experience Design, Karel Vrendenburg (15293 followers)
  • IBM Software -  IBM software team managed by Tiffany Winman, IBM Social Media Strategist (2851 followers)
  • IBM Software Newsletter - links to things (4077 followers)
  • IBM Software Americas - IBM software news across the Americas (564 followers)
  • IBM SWG SA Channel - no info (103 followers)
  • IBM Northstar - tweets about Project Northstar
  • IBM Research - official id for IBM Research Division. Cotweeted from 8 IBM labs (11557 followers)
  • IBM Accessibility - news about accessibility from IBM.  Managed by Holly Nielsen, Web Outreach Program Manager. (2013 followers)
  • ctr4socialsoft - this is the IBM Center for Social Software
  • Smarter Planet - just that.  Managed by Kevin Winterfield, a social business expert
  • IBM_Events - different account than below (5859 followers)
  • IBMEvents - info on when and where. Run by Karl Roche of IBM Communications, and Rebecca Reyes
  • IBM Dynamic Infrastructure - news on dynamic infrastructure from IBM (988 followers)
  • IBM Interactive - tweets from the Digital Interactive Agency (1216 followers)
  • IBM Extreme Blue - IBM's premier internship program for students pursuing MBA and software dev (673 followers)
  • IBM SmarterComputing - info on smarter computing?
  • IBMCafe - coffee and IBM (124 followers)
  • IBMstg - marketing for IBM demand products by Mary Hall
  • IBM BP Team - UK and Ireland BP news and events
  • IBM US Jobs - tweets about jobs at IBM in the US (1029 followers)
  • IBM Optim - Mostly San Jose and Princeton area by Kathy Zeidenstein (295 followers)
  • IBMPartnerMktg - by Jacqi Levy who is a social media strategist, IBM channel marketer
  • IBM Promotions - IBM discounts, special offers (872 followers)
  • IBM Redbooks - notices when Redbooks come out (2905 followers)
  • IBM SOA Bus partners - the business partner community for IBM SOA (1381 followers)
  • IBM Engines - I have no idea but it published case studies?
  • IBM Communications Server - enterprise networking solutions (164 followers)
  • Citizen IBM - IBM's corporate citizen organization (419 followers)
  • IBM Partners - updates from midmarket and IBM software business partner teams (867 followers)
  • IBM Next Generation Network (NGN) - Updates around NGN and Smarter Planet (2832 followers)
  • IBM_DataPower - DataPower Experts, IBM SOA architecture and Websphere professionals (4150 followers)
  • IBM Cloud - Everything IBM and cloud related. Managed by Jeremy Hodge, Social Business Manager (1022 followers)
  • IBMVLP - Virtual Loaner Program, no charge remote cloud access (616 followers)
  • IBMSubCap - flexible licensing for middleware in virtual environments (90 followers)
  • OpenIBM - Open source news at IBM. Says tweets are their won and not IBM, but no name (2168 followers and follow no one)
  • IBM Government - Smarter public services (540 followers)
  • IBM Retail - Smarter Planet solutions for retail operations (2146 followers)
  • IBM Compilers - C, C++, COLBOL and Fortran compilers (61 followers)
  • IBM Security - talks about solutions from IBM around security
  • IBM Storage - news about IBM Storage solutions (4486 followers)
  • IBM Innovate - the Innovate Rational conference account (3040 followers)
  • ISICC - IBM SAP International Competence Center (632 followers)
  • IBM DB2 - maybe an official DB2 account (1946 followers)
  • IBMSLST - IBM Systems Labs Services and System Training (289 followers)
  • IBM Blue Blog - a German blog of IBM (1674 followers)
  • IBM Information Management Support - the support news and updates on Information Management (272 followers)
  • IBM Cognos - info on Cognos Software from IBM.  Run by Delaney Turner in Canada (7022 followers)
  • IBM Service Management - news around IBM Service Management solutions
  • IBM Noticias - IBM notices and press (292 followers)
  • IBM eSupport - the official support account for IBM eSupport
  • IBM System Z - all about IBM System Z (1501 followers)
  • IBMsysxblade - tweets about System X and BladeCenter servers (2809 followers)
  • IBM Pulse - the official IBM Pulse conference account run again by Tiffany Winman, IBM Social Media Strategist (like above IBM Software)
  • IBM Pulse Madrid (pulsecty) - IBM Forum in Madrid from 2010 (531 followers)
  • IBM Smart Camp - global program to bring together people around Smarter Planet
  • IBM HealthAU - tweets around providing services to Australia/New Zealand healthcare (174 followers)
  • IBMUKcareers - not sure, get a job with IBM UK? (2831 followers)
  • IBM Forum Warwick -IBM Forum Center (51 followers)
  • IBM Forum London  - another IBM forum center (57 followers)
  • IBM IIC Chicago - Innovation Center in Chicago (126 followers)
  • IBM Switzerland - tweets from Switzerland's social media office (613 followers)
  • IBM Mittelstand - IBM on Tour in Germany (2060 followers)
  • IBM Mexico - tweets from their location (1667 followers)
  • IBM in Ireland - tweets from the Ireland team (1482 followers)
  • SmarterCities Mexico - not sure (623 followers)
  • IBM UK News - news about IBM in the UK (1784 followers)
  • IBM Communications Germany - another Germany account (570 followers)
  • IBM Software India - Ranjini Rao runs this account
  • IBM India University Relations - University Relations programs in India (464 followers)
  • IBM Brazil - yes IBM in Brazil (11578 followers)
  • IBM Singapore - Singapore, no tweets, no following (78 followers)
  • IBM Argentina - tweets from the team there (1752 followers)
  • Developerworks Japan - the version in Japan (1319 followers)
  • IBM Chile - tweets from that team (384 followers)
  • IBM Software Turkey - from Turkey (95 followers)
  • IBM Scotland Events - IBM Scotland news and events (920 followers)
  • IBM DE Careers - tweets from the career group in Germany (1017 followers)
  • IBM Canada Recruiters - Campus recruitment for students in Canada (1132 follwers)
  • IBM Poland - official IBM Poland feed (107 followers)
  • IBM NZ - tweets from New Zealand (84 followers)
  • IBM Suomi - tweets from Helsinki (203 followers)
  • IBM Russia - tweets from that team (540 followers)
  • IBM Recruiting Belgium - announcements on Belgium IBM jobs (794 followers)
  • IBM Software Sverige - newer account (80 followers)
  • IBM SW Alps - news from Switzerland and Austria by Taru Koch (327 followers)
  • ISV news from IBM - ISV news and resources from Partnerworld
  • IBM System Z - info on the System Z
  • IBM CICS Support - news and updates about CICS (891 followers)
  • Linux at IBM - tweets about Linux and IBM? (2599 followers)
  • IBM Watson  - the official tweets behind the machine (6853 followers)
  • IBM at GSMA MWC 2011 - tweets from a conference
  • Greater IBM - the network for retired IBM and current employees (3113 followers)

Lotus directly related
  • Lotus Education - easy enough.  Info on Lotus software education (1487 followers)
  • IBM Lotus Tech Info - from Joyce Davis. Tweets around technical content found online (4014 followers)
  • Lotus Knows - managed by Bilal Jaffery. General Lotus news (3626 followers)
  • Lotus Live - the official(?) feed for Lotus Live services (1046 followers)
  • Lotus Germany - their own feed (2046 followers)
  • Sametime - the official Sametime information (1547 followers)
  • Lotus Tech Support (Lotus_Support) - posts info on Lotus products support (896 followers)
  • Lotus Tech Docs - a Twitter feed with all technotes, whitepapers, redbooks and more in realtime
  • Lotus Support (LotusSupport) - LotusLive support (45 followers)
  • Lotus Design - the Lotus UX and UI design team (607 followers)
  • Lotus Social SW Info - information and education for Connections, Quickr and LotusLive Engage (151 followers)
  • Lotus Collab SW Info - information and education for Domino, Designer, Symphony and more (104 followers)
  • IBM Lotus SW CEE - Marketing and Sales for Central and Eastern Europe (294 followers)
  • Lotus Business Partner - managed by Deb Cole for information on Lotus BP program (525 following)
  • Lotus Connect - official Twitter for all news and opinions of Southeast Asia region (538 followers)
  • Lotus Symphony - two tweets, all in 2009 (313 followers)
  • AusLUG - Australian Lotus User Group (66 followers)
  • IamLUG - North American Lotus User Group (210 followers)

Tivoli
Websphere
Rational
People with IBM in name that relate to the tech (not added to list)
  • IBMiCIO - oops not an IBM account.  Run by an iSeries evangelist
  • IBM Cliff - an IBM employee
  • I really quit there was so many out there....