Edmonton Organizations on Twitter at MasterMaq's Blog

By Mack D. Male | October 27, 2008 at 12:00 pm

I’m not the only one who has noticed it – the number of Edmontonians using Twitter is steadily increasing. The EdmontonTweetup account is following just over 450 people, but I know there are probably many more. The vast majority of these accounts are individuals, but there are some businesses and other organizations also.

Here’s a list of organizations with official Twitter accounts (in no particular order):

A few of these are placeholders and aren’t very active. You might think that the Edmonton Oilers should be on that list too, but the Oilers don’t run the Twitter account – I do. A couple of others I’m sitting on include edmonton and ualberta.

Of course, there are also a number of organizations that don’t have an official account which are represented by their owners and/or employees. Some of these have the same name as the organization, but are used more like personal accounts so I am including them here instead of above (again, in no particular order):

Not surprisingly, most of these organizations are in tech, photography, or design. All very creative endeavors.

The problem with a list like this is that it’s easy to miss people (apologies if I missed you), and it’ll soon be out of date. That’s why I’ve created a page on the EdmontonTweetup wiki for it. I’m not sure how much value there is in having such a list, but it’s there anyway. Feel free to add your organization to it, or to ignore it completely! I’ll try to update it when I can.

Don’t forget – the third EdmontonTweetup is taking place this Thursday (October 30th) at 6pm at Devlin’s on Whyte Avenue. You can find all the details here. Hope to see you there!

UPDATE: Added MatrikonOPC, 350 Designs, and Urban Jungle.

9 Responses to “Edmonton Organizations on Twitter”

Techvibes | Calgary, Denver, Edmonton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Montréal, Ottawa, Portland, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria Says:
October 27th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

[...] in Edmonton, there are a growing number of organizations using Twitter. I posted a list of official accounts [...]

Laurie/Halo Secretarial Says:
October 28th, 2008 at 8:58 am

Thanks for the mention! I didn’t realize you were the person behind the Oilers account. Too bad the real Oilers didn’t see the benefit of a Twitter account! (they should pay you to be in charge of it for them!!)

Mack D. Male Says:
October 28th, 2008 at 9:14 am

No problem. I think they see the benefit of it and are probably hesitant or restricted for some other reason. I’m happy to keep running it

Forrest Zeisler Says:
October 28th, 2008 at 10:15 am

Twitter is such an obvious easy way to get a message out to people who are interested in your company. Its short and to the point; much easier than a press release. I’m amazed that more companies don’t take advantage of this no brainer.

Forrest
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are you following me on Twitter? http://twitter.com/fzeisler

Mack D. Male Says:
October 28th, 2008 at 10:55 am

Forrest – I think we’ll see more and more companies taking advantage of Twitter. It’s only a matter of time.

Rob Davy Says:
October 28th, 2008 at 3:34 pm

/me coins the term “twitter squatter”

Mack is the first designatee….