Back in April Pete did a round-up of Birmingham creatives on Twitter. There have been many additions since then, including accounts registered in the names of various local companies, festivals, etc who are using the (free!) service in all sorts of ways.
Not all of them are being used all year round or even updated all that regularly, but you never know when someone’s going to pick up an account and start using it again.
Here are the ones I’m aware of, in no particular order:
- Film Dash
- PLUS Design
- Stan’s Cafe – Of All The People In All The World
- Nikki Pugh’s Ludogeography
- Aquaplane (a local band)
- Hello Digital
- Project X Presents
- Birmingham Eastside
- Type
- Robot v Dinosaur
- Light House Media Centre
- Created in Birmingham
- Sutton Art Festival
- 4Talent
- Ash10
- MyTurf (online volunteering network)
- Custard Factory
- BCU Media
- Things Guide
- Ironman Records
- Smile
- Birmingham Jazz Festival
- Fierce Festival
- Likemind
- Gigbeth
- Creative Networks
- Network Musician
I also have my suspicions that the person behind The Day Today (occasionally coughing out lines from the show) is a prominent fellow in the city’s media. There’s only circumstantial evidence so far, but I’m on their case.
If you’ve come across any others to add to the list then please shout em up in the comments.
Network: Musician, an initiative from the Musicians’ Union is on twitter
http://www.twitter.com/networkmusician
It is a series of regular networking opportunities for musicians and music businesses in the Midlands. For more information on dates, times and locations etc. please visit http://www.myspace.com/midlandsmu and befriend us.
Don’t forget that we also buy the teas and coffees for Birmingham Music Network which takes place today in Room 103, TIC, Millennium Point, Birmingham at 4pm.
Drop in and say hallo!
Screen WM – your choice of my own arbitrary musings, often (but not always) relating to your friendly neighbourhood screen agency twitter.com/danlawson or if you like your announcements a little more company-sanctioned check out Tom Carson twitter.com/tomscreenwm for all things SWM.
Cheers for the mention (Aquaplane). Nice to see social networking efforts being spotted :).
Doesn’t seem like there are all that many people in Brum using Twitter, hopefully more people will catch on soon.
I dunno, I think there are a fair few out there. I quick search on ‘Birmingham UK’ says there are 469 (https://twitter.com/tw/search/users?q=birmingham+uk) and that’s just the people putting that as their location.