Task: Explore Atari Tweets
Needed: web browser
Time: 10-15 mins
Introduction
I am very active on twitter and love to post Atari-related items from time to time. Twitter is a great way to get information and interact with a slice of the Atari community. I find that Facebook, and certainly Atari Age, are a bit more active, but twitter has its place and it is not uncommon to see interesting Atari posts as a tweet before it reaches other social media outlets. I list below some hashtags and people to explore on twitter.
Instructions
- Here is a list of commonly used Atari hashtags to explore and a few active Atari tweeters to follow.
#Atari – anything Atari
#Atari800 – tweets specific to the Atari 800 and other 8-bit computers
#Atari8bit – tweets specific to the 8-bit computers
#Atari2600 – tweets about the Atari 2600 VCS
#retrocomputing – general tweets about retro computing with occasional Atari content
#vintagecomputing – general tweets about retro computing with occasional Atari content
2. Here is a list of a few people I follow who regularly tweet about Atari
@moorejh – me! (Atari Projects)
@jlendino – Jamie Lendino (Author of multiple Atari books)
@kaysavetz – Kay Savetz (ANTIC Podcast, Terrible Nerd)
@tschak – Thomas Cherryhomes (irata.online, Fujinet)
@billlange1968 – Bill Lange (Atari Party East)
@montanaboiler – Randall Kindig (ANTIC & Floppy Days Podcasts)
@recta_pete – Pete Fletcher (Atari 8-bits and STs)
@fultonbot – Steve Fulton (Into the Vertical Blank Podcast)
@AtariAge – Atari Age
@AtariPodcast – ANTIC Atari Podcast
@Atari_VB_Podcast – Into the Vertical Blank Podcast
Comments
The above is not meant to be an exhaustive list. Rather, this is how I experience Atari on twitter. I encourage you to explore and find hashtags and tweeps to follow with the kind of content you are looking for. Feel free to contact me with suggestions!
This post is now out of date. I highly recommend Bluesky as an alternative.
