If you're a WordPress freelancer, you already probably have your regular web sources for your gigs (and if you don't, do read How to find a WordPress job right now). Did you know that Twitter was also a fine potential source of information for your next project ?
Here are three Twitter users that you should follow:
- @wordpress_work: about 20 tweets a day
- @freelancewp: pulling jobs from freelancewp.com, which is itself fetching from various web sources. About 5 tweets a day
- @wordpressjob: the most established one, pulling from wordpressjob.com, about 20 tweets a day
If you're really hungry, two other users might also interest you:
- @phplance: not about strictly WordPress, but PHP freelancing in general. Lots of tweets.
- @hashwordpress: this little experiment of mine retweets everything about "#wordpress". In this "all things WordPress" tweetage there will be a smaller signal/noise ratio but there are quite a few requests that could end up being your next little contract.
Know any other interesting Twitter source?
Ozh. Retweeting hashtags like that is evil.
It ruins the feeds by creating duplicate content in a search for the hashtag.
If people want to subscribe to a hashtag they should use a search feed!
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23wordpress
westi » well actually I like it, quite some noise I admit but I've found cool stuff following this retweeting account (and it gains new followers everyday so I guess others like it too). I'm pretty sure there are a lot of people using Twitter who don't use a feed reader.
This said, it's easy to refine a query on search.twitter to filter junk out: something like "#wordpress -source:twitterfeed -RT -from:hashwordpress" …