Comments on: Most Compelling BEER Personalities on TWITTER

By: Best Craft Beer

Best Craft Beer — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:25:36 +0000

Awesome post! I love the fact you took the time to filter all of this out for us. I added a few more people I need to follow, that’s for sure. Thanks!

By: Wenchie

Wenchie — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:14:42 +0000

James: Thanks for your comments! As I’m sure you might be able to tell, that post is very old. And with the face of social media changing rapidly each day, that list is probably no longer relevant. And the real bottom line was that it was a list that I personally generated based solely on my opinions and not on the opinions of others.

I agree that creating RELEVANT, GENUINE, and COMPELLING content is the true key to social media success — brand or no brand.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by my site and comment!

Cheers!

By: James Mann

James Mann — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:25:36 +0000

For me, your list focuses too much on the “craft-beer-as-career” crowd.
Over time, I’ve followed roughly 2/3rds of these names. Now however, I only follow two names in your top 20. Both are bloggers.

Unlike you, beer isn’t my job.
I just like (make that love) high quality beer. My wife believes I spend disproportionate amounts of discretionary funds on brown bottles. This seems to qualify me as a valuble demographic target.

I’m eager to know more. But I have no tolerance for insider beer-fanzine personality-based content. As such, I no longer follow “beer-only-content” accounts. Nor can I tolerate ANY account, beer, sports, tech or otherwise, with more than 1/3rd promotional content.

I’m always interested in good-beer-centric content, but rarely brewery-centric content. So, having unsuccessfully followed at least 40 during the past 18 months, I now only follow 2-3 breweries.

I’ve no use for Facebook, but follow nearly 300 various Twitter identities. My Twitter feed sits opens on my office PC screen all day. I’m not anti-social, but I have no need to interact bi-directionally with online personalities. Twitter’s best feature is that it allows me to intake valuable information and minimize exposure to shameless hype. I’m happiest when someone delivers real “takeaway” in 140 characters. Based on what my colleagues say, there are MANY others like me.

My requirements –> Be smart, be interesting, be diverse, have opinions, be authentic, have a world-view relevant to an informed lifestyle and, at the very least, be useful.

Bottom line : There is far more to life than beer (I know- a bone-chlling shudder ripples the ether).

By: Scott-TheBrewClub

Scott-TheBrewClub — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:01:55 +0000

Cool list. I’m happy to find that I already follow most of them, (and would agree with your assessments) but there’s a few that I missed.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:05:09 +0000

Thanks Ashley,

This was a fun piece to read and I’m honored to be on the list.

Cheers,
Adam

By: @FlyingDogJT

@FlyingDogJT — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:50:44 +0000

I compel you to follow me in the name of good beer!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:16:14 +0000

I send all my beer related questions to @djacra…very knowledgeable. Talks alot about the business behind the industry…which I think is kind of cool.

By: Coty

Coty — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:11:05 +0000

Nice list! I actually was following a little more than half of the list – but now I am following 99% of them!

By: admin

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:18:12 +0000

Stephen — Thanks for the heads up! Unfortuntely, I was not following her until now! I hope to write up a post about the TOP female beer bloggers in the future … and will definitely include Suzanne!

By: Stephen Lyford

Stephen Lyford — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:16:04 +0000

A glaring omission is @beerlass, aka Suzanne Woods. She works I’m marketing for the fantastic Sly Fox Brewing, heads up a women’s beer appreciation club called IPA: In Pursuit of Ale, and has her own blog http://www.beerlass.org/. … Look her up!