Twitter is the best place to reach some of the top people in tech (in the big data niche at least). It's a great place to market projects, get a following, and

Twitter is the best place to reach some of the top people in tech (in the big data niche at least). It's a great place to market projects, get a following, and find open source collaborators. It can also be a toxic place that puts you in a bad head space and wastes time. A ticking time bomb that can blow up your productivity at any moment. I recommend aggressively muting / unfollowing to keep your feed clean. Anything offensive / negative deserves an unfollow. Irrelevant stuff deserves a mute. For me, ratio of programming posts / other posts should be 10:1. Also mute people that retweet too much. Having a follower strategy is also important. For me, Twitter is a part time job, similar to open source work. It's not "fun".