An essential resource for breaking news and community organizing, Twitter has become much more than a way to broadcast what you're having for lunch. It's also a great place to lean more about the sharing revolution. As something of a super-Follow Friday, we've compiled the following list of our favorite Twitter users who are posting news and information about the new sharing economy. This is far from an exhaustive list, so please share your favorites in the comments below. And while you're checking out these great tweeps, how about following Shareable at shareabledesign?
@ShareableDesign
That's us folks. Shareable Magazine's Twitter stream covering the sharing trend and offering the largest collection of sharing how-to posts.
@mbauwens
Founder of p2pfoundation with updates on open and free, participatory, and commons developments.
@onthecommons
On the Commons is a citizens’ network that highlights the importance of the commons in our lives, and promotes innovative commons-based solutions.
@rachelbotsman
Author on the power of collaborative technologies to transform business, public services and the way we live.
@collcons
Collaborative Consumption is the explosion in traditional sharing, lending, renting and swapping redefined through tech and peer communities
@camerontw
Sustainable service systems designs, critical design thinking from the Chair of Design Thinking and Sustainability department, School of Design Strategies, Parsons
@instigating
Lisa Gansky, entrepreneur and author of The Mesh, a book about the sharing economy and more.
@rushkoff
Influential media theorist, author of Life, Inc. and Program or be Programmed, and convener of the upcoming Contact p2p festival.
Art and Life
@rowdykittens
Social change through simple living.
@creativecommons
A nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others.
@ninaksimon
Designs participatory, interactive, slightly strange museum exhibits all over the place.
@freeculture
A diverse, non-partisan group of students and young people who are working to get their peers involved in the free culture movement.
@GAFFTA
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts is dedicated to building social consciousness through digital culture. They nurture connections between art, design, sound and technology.
@writesinla
Los Angeles freelance writer covering culture, literature and sustainable living.
Business
@trustcurrency
Alternative economy – coops, timebanking, currencies, community self-sufficiency, and more.
@opensourceway
Open source as applied to everything in work and life.
@harkopen
Open source hardware community. News, projects and tutorials from the first dedicated open hardware hosting service.
@Deskmag
Twitter account for the magazine about coworking.
@jenangel
Media activist and publicist interested in food, activism, media, communications, and progressive business development
@accesstrumps
News and insights around the sharing economy
@socialadvoc8
Collaborative consumption and social innovation tweeter extraordinaire.
Cities
@TracyDavis
Planning commissioner & civic blogger, tweeting about land use and local issues.
@LocalManagers
City/County Management Association: Leaders at the Core of Better Communities
@urbandata
Local & global urban affairs: City planning, health equity, governance 2.0, design, data & community indicator
@BrokenCityLab
Broken City Lab is an artist-led collective working in art and collaborative social practice, interested in the city, tactics, interventions, Windsor & Detroit.
@MikeLydon
Founding Principal of The Street Plans Collaborative. Co-Author of The Smart Growth Manual. Life is better on two wheels.
@UrbanSubversion
Passionate about acitivites that broaden our usage of urban functionality
@ehooge
Cities and social innovation in the digital age. Tweets a steady stream of urban goodness with a European perspective.
@pps_placemaking
The Project for Public Space's news stream of the placemaking movement.
Communities and Neighborhoods
@leoromero
A great source of neighborhood community building tools and insights.
@rentalic
A fast growing peer to peer rental service.
@NeighborGoods
Save and earn money by sharing your stuff with your neighbors.
@hyperlocavore
Hyperlocavore.com is a yardsharing community.
@ShareSomeSugar
Social & Community Entrepreneur, Brand & Business Strategist, Design Management.
@sharethemesh
A global community where access to goods and services trumps ownership.
@cohousing
A news stream of the cohousing movement, US focus.
Gov 2.0
@govfresh
Gov 2.0, open gov news, guides, TV, tech, people. Focusing on open air government.
@digiphile
Alex Howard, the Gov 2.0 Radar Correspondent for O'Reilly Media.
@codeforamerica
Recruiting top web professionals to give a year of service building web 2.0 apps for city governments.
@ushahidi
Africa-based non-profit tech company that specializes in developing free and open source software for information collection,visualization and interactive mapping.
@Tech4Dev
Using mobile technologies to support & strengthen humanitarian work in the fields of global health & disaster relief.
