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25 Twitter Feeds Every Oracle User Should Follow

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Alexander Wolfe
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Everybody talks about Twitter, but few of us have arranged our “following” list so that it’s #justright. The purpose of this post is to tell you that it’s OK to drop @ladygaga (39,518,575 followers) and @KimKardashian (sadly, only 18,293,384) and instead load up on the technically astute epigrams sourced from the fingertips of Oracle experts.

I’m not talking only company-approved feeds, either. (We’ll get to those, later.) There’s a whole community of Twitterers I’ve dubbed the “Oraclerati”—like digerati except without the overweaning sense of self-importance—who provide the best insight anywhere on analytics, big data, cloud, customer experience, engineered systems, and human capital management.

True, it’s an anecdotally vetted list—I picked it. Note that some of these folks are undiscovered gems—I’m talking about you, @eddieawad and @sudip_dat. They don’t have many followers yet, but deliver value and thus deserve attention. So, consider this list a great starting point if you’re intent on getting your Oracle on.

Plus, thanks to Twitter’s “embed” feature, you can click on the actual links in the graphics throughout this article to follow the folks I’ve mentioned.

We’ll start with a selection of Oracle authorities; some work at the company, others are independent. That’ll be followed by a list of selected company-sanctioned feeds. I’ll conclude with a thinly veiled appeal for my fellow OracleVoice bloggers. Oh, and did I mention: The opinions expressed on Twitter by people who work for Oracle are entirely their own and not necessarily those of Oracle.

Let's meet our twitterers:

Name: Thomas Kyte

Handle: @OracleAskTom

Position: Database architect, Oracle

Name: Rich Schwerin

Handle: @Greencognito

Position: Oracle director of social content strategy

Name: Paul Sonderegger

Handle: @PaulSonderegger

Position: Oracle big data strategist

Name: Harry J. Foxwell

Handle: @hjfphd

Position: Oracle principal sales consultant and adjunct professor of computer science at George Mason University

Our list of individual Oracle authorities continues:

Name: Eddie Awad

Handle: @eddieawad

Position: Independent Oracle developer and Oracle ACE director

Name: Sudip Datta

Handle: @sudip_dat

Position: Oracle vice president of product management working on cloud management, data center automation, and configuration management

Name: Amy Sorrells

Handle: @amyssorrells

Position: Principal product manager for Oracle’s social platform

Name: Wim Coekaerts

Handle: @wimcoekaerts

Position: Oracle senior vice president, Linux and virtualization

Name: Chris Warticki

Handle: @cwarticki

Position: Oracle support services account manager

Name: Uwe Hesse

Handle: @UweHesse

Position: Independent Oracle certified master and instructor, based in Germany

Name: Paul Mitchell

Handle: @pxmtech

Position: Oracle software development senior director

Name: Independent Oracle Users Group

Handle: @IOUG

What: Illinois-based group of database pros

Name: Rex Wang

Handle: @wrecks47

Position: Oracle vice president of product marketing, technology software

While company-authorized tweets are never going to be as “out there” as the musings of our aforementioned thought leaders, that doesn’t mean Oracle’s own Twitter feeds aren’t worth your short-attention-span while. In many cases, they alert you to upcoming events or product announcements, point you to interesting content, or reference some arcane technical points.

Oracle has roughly 100 officially sanctioned Twitter feeds. I’m not going to list them all right now—you don’t have the bandwidth and I need to save some fodder for future Forbes posts. Instead, here’s a useful starter collection covering some great internal magazines—yes, such things still exist, albeit online—and most of the major subject-area buckets.

Name: Oracle

Handle: @Oracle

What: Oracle’s main corporate feed

Name: OracleCloudZone

Handle: @ OracleCloudZone

Name: Oracle Public Sector

Handle: @OracleGov

Name: OracleBlogs

Handle: @OracleBlogs

Our list of selected Oracle company Twitter feeds continues:

Name: Profit Online

Handle: @OracleProfit

Position: Oracle’s online magazine, Profit

Name: Oracle Magazine

Handle: @oraclemagazine

Position:  Oracle Magazine

Name: Java Magazine

Handle: @Oraclejavamag

Name: Oracle Exadata

Handle: @ oracleexadata

What: Info on Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic

Name: Oracle Social

Handle: @oraclesocial

What: Oracle Social Relationship Management platform

Name: Oracle Customer Experience

Handle: @OracleCX

Name: ORACLE TEAM USA

Handle: @OracleTeamUSA

What: America’s Cup sailing

Name: Oracle Database

Handle: @OracleDatabase

What:  News on Oracle Database 12c

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Oh, and please don’t forget to follow the OracleVoice musketeers: John Foley, at @jfoley09, Bob Evans at @bobevansIT, and me at @awolfe58.

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Alexander Wolfe
Alexander Wolfe