Less Wrong on Twitter

post by Grognor · 2012-06-22T15:51:08.521Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 31 comments

List of members of Less Wrong who are on Twitter:

Twitter accounts by people who aren't really "LWers" but recommended for LWers anyway:

If I missed anyone in either category, let me know. I'll keep this updated.

Last update: May 18, 2015.

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comment by Alex_Altair · 2012-06-22T16:36:32.916Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I wish there was a "subscribe to all" button.

Replies from: wmorgan, pjeby
comment by wmorgan · 2012-06-22T18:53:46.271Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

The Twitter devs vetoed that idea back in 2009 -- too much spam potential. Here's my 5-minute effort anyway:

http://www.wmorgan.net/lw_twitter.html

I don't have a Twitter account so the page isn't tested, but it looks like it works -- give it a second to load, though.

Edit: The following JavaScript will turn all Twitter links on this page into follow links. Couldn't figure out how to make a bookmarklet in markdown:

jQuery('a[href*="twitter.com"]')
  .addClass("twitter-follow-button");

jQuery(document.createElement("script"))
  .attr({"id": "twitter-wjs", "src": "//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"})
  .appendTo("head");
Replies from: Grognor, Paulovsk, Alex_Altair
comment by Grognor · 2012-07-20T05:00:25.290Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

After the addition I just made, my list contains 58 items, and yours contains 47. If you feel like updating. (Also, I removed one, because William Eden deleted one of his accounts.)

comment by Paulovsk · 2012-06-25T21:15:13.988Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Step by step:

  1. Open your chrome browser and press F12
  2. Click on 'Scripts'
  3. Down corner on the left, Click in the icon to "show console"
  4. Paste the code and press enter. The page will seem to reload and the magic will happen.

By the way, thanks for the code

comment by Alex_Altair · 2012-06-22T20:11:04.486Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

That was ridiculously helpful. Everybody; this works.

comment by pjeby · 2012-06-22T20:38:10.983Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

There is, sort of. You can create a list of people, and then other people can follow that list as a group. If people are added to the list later, you'll end up following them as well.

So, you could create a global LW list and various local LW lists, if you wanted.

Replies from: Caspian
comment by Caspian · 2012-10-14T09:18:07.824Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Looks like you can't include yourself in a list.

comment by MichaelAnissimov · 2012-06-27T05:16:40.385Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Michael Anissimov... thanks for linking!

comment by Alicorn · 2012-10-14T05:15:20.900Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I just got Twitter the other day. I edited myself into the list.

comment by simplicio · 2013-05-10T19:51:49.129Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

@simplic10

comment by Caspian · 2012-10-14T09:16:51.410Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

https://twitter.com/capsmac is my twitter account. I've made a twitter list of lesswrong members from the upper list, updated October 14, 2012

comment by RobertLumley · 2012-08-20T02:46:35.408Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I mostly retweet stuff, largely from the above list. So I'm not sure how interesting following me would be, but I'm here.

comment by Michelle_Z · 2012-06-28T04:20:04.127Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Michelle_Z I'm not on it that often, though.

comment by Davidmanheim · 2016-06-24T04:16:58.117Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Is Venkatesh Rao (ribbonfarm.com) a useful LW-adjacent twitter account?

comment by tomaff · 2016-02-14T12:38:07.945Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

If you have python you can run the following script which will subscribe your account to the aforementioned users: https://github.com/afiodorov/mass_twitter_follow

comment by Username · 2015-05-10T02:29:01.091Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Lior Gotesman is on LW. His username is pwno.

comment by chaosmosis · 2012-10-14T06:08:05.868Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Kim Kierkegaardashian

I lol'd.

comment by EricHerboso · 2012-10-05T19:18:39.161Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

EricHerboso

Thank you for keeping up this list. (c:

comment by [deleted] · 2012-06-23T12:57:04.378Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Great idea! Tagging this community or networking or something might be useful.

I've added a link to this post from my LWer blogs list. Mind reciprocating? :)

comment by Morendil · 2012-06-22T19:31:11.994Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

My Twitter handle is conveniently the same as my LW handle. Feel free to list it.

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comment by teageegeepea · 2012-06-24T03:26:49.328Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

As is mine. Twitter wouldn't allow just TGGP or T.G.G.P

comment by thomblake · 2012-06-25T21:22:58.196Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Aha - I'd wondered why a bunch of people just started following me on Twitter.

Replies from: Paulovsk
comment by Paulovsk · 2012-06-26T20:54:01.535Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Now you're pop ;)