The Twitter devs vetoed that idea back in 2009 -- too much spam potential. Here's my 5-minute effort anyway:
http://www.wmorgan.net/lw_twitter.html
I don't have a Twitter account so the page isn't tested, but it looks like it works -- give it a second to load, though.
Edit: The following JavaScript will turn all Twitter links on this page into follow links. Couldn't figure out how to make a bookmarklet in markdown:
jQuery('a[href*="twitter.com"]')
.addClass("twitter-follow-button");
jQuery(document.createElement("script"))
.attr({"id": "twitter-wjs", "src": "//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"})
.appendTo("head");
After the addition I just made, my list contains 58 items, and yours contains 47. If you feel like updating. (Also, I removed one, because William Eden deleted one of his accounts.)
Step by step:
By the way, thanks for the code
There is, sort of. You can create a list of people, and then other people can follow that list as a group. If people are added to the list later, you'll end up following them as well.
So, you could create a global LW list and various local LW lists, if you wanted.
https://twitter.com/capsmac is my twitter account. I've made a twitter list of lesswrong members from the upper list, updated October 14, 2012
Is Venkatesh Rao (ribbonfarm.com) a useful LW-adjacent twitter account?
If you have python you can run the following script which will subscribe your account to the aforementioned users: https://github.com/afiodorov/mass_twitter_follow
Great idea! Tagging this community or networking or something might be useful.
I've added a link to this post from my LWer blogs list. Mind reciprocating? :)
List of members of Less Wrong who are on Twitter:
Twitter accounts by people who aren't really "LWers" but recommended for LWers anyway:
If I missed anyone in either category, let me know. I'll keep this updated.
Last update: May 18, 2015.