Assistive Technology on Twitter: Who to follow? Where to go?

Twitter is very useful for following a specialist area. like AT For example, Karl O’Keeffe, (@electroat) AT and E Learning Specialist wtih our AT Team is particularly interested in Assistive Music Technology, AT for Arts, Gaming and all kinds of Emerging Tech, Open Source and DIY AT solutions.

If you want to use Twitter to support your AT learning and network , we suggest that you start with organisations, manufacturers, well-known bloggers or academics in the area. Often, these will not prove to be the best sources of information in themselves but by trawling through their followers (look at their previous tweets) you will find the right accounts to follow It might take a few weeks but by the time you are following about 50 people and organisations, if they are reasonably prolific tweeters you should have a stream of quality information in no time.

You will probably have to unfollow a few here and there (or if you don’t want to risk offending them you can just hide their tweets). Be ruthless, you will quickly get to know who is using twitter as a means of disseminating quality information on your subject of interest and who has it connected to their Fitbit;-)
If you are interested in using Twitter as an AT information source listed below are some of the people that we follow under general headings. If you are familiar with other useful Tweeters in AT, please share via the reply function on this blog post and/or via Twitter @atandme

General AT
https://twitter.com/FreedomTech_IRL

https://twitter.com/diyability

https://twitter.com/iAmMaccing

https://twitter.com/get_tecla

https://twitter.com/atmacjournal

https://twitter.com/AAATE_net

https://twitter.com/longsiobhan

https://twitter.com/cognable

https://twitter.com/SteveALee

https://twitter.com/sensoryguru

https://twitter.com/TobiiEyeX

https://twitter.com/RaisingTheFloor

https://twitter.com/jwinchester25

https://twitter.com/trinityfieldsit

https://twitter.com/atandme

https://twitter.com/si_judge

https://twitter.com/AejazAssistech

https://twitter.com/TechACCESSRI

https://twitter.com/MSFTEnable

https://twitter.com/IBMAccess

https://twitter.com/RachelleBernier

https://twitter.com/ToyotaMobFdn

https://twitter.com/at_makers

https://twitter.com/SarahGBoland

https://twitter.com/FilMcIntyre

https://twitter.com/DaveBanesAccess

https://twitter.com/hminto

https://twitter.com/MIAssistTech

https://twitter.com/ATBlog2

https://twitter.com/DangerOT

Music
https://twitter.com/barryfarrimond

https://twitter.com/Epiphany_Ltd

https://twitter.com/HeartnSoulArt

https://twitter.com/BigEarsBelfast

https://twitter.com/1nclusiveMusic

https://twitter.com/MusInclusion

https://twitter.com/DrakeMusicTandC

https://twitter.com/DrakeMusicRandD

https://twitter.com/musicndeafness

https://twitter.com/deejaybott

https://twitter.com/Apollo_Ensemble

https://twitter.com/openupmusic

https://twitter.com/Drake_Music

https://twitter.com/SoundbeamUK

https://twitter.com/openPLAYmusic

https://twitter.com/MakeSoundLab

https://twitter.com/BillyAndyMusic

https://twitter.com/InclusiveCreati

https://twitter.com/jonathanwestrup

https://twitter.com/GardenOfMusicEd

https://twitter.com/fusedmusic

https://twitter.com/alexaudio

https://twitter.com/SophiaAlexand

Arts
https://twitter.com/sarahezekiel

https://twitter.com/PadraigNaughton

https://twitter.com/ADIarts

https://twitter.com/WacArts

https://twitter.com/aamedia_org_uk

https://twitter.com/orpheuscentre

https://twitter.com/sharemusicswed

Gaming
https://twitter.com/OneSwitch

https://twitter.com/ianhamilton_

https://twitter.com/SpecialEffect

https://twitter.com/includification

https://twitter.com/AbleGamers

https://twitter.com/brycej

https://twitter.com/djhofficial

https://twitter.com/VoicedGaming

Education
https://twitter.com/georginaomahony

https://twitter.com/tjoshaughnessy

https://twitter.com/mtholfsen

https://twitter.com/Howell_MSFT

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