About an hour ago, @TwitterMedia, tweeted a “Fall TV (staff picks)” who to follow list. The list, which they later tweeted “is not in any order,” lists 198 handles, a combination of official show accounts, writers, producers and actors.
Most of the accounts wear the coveted blue and white verification symbol, but not all. This list is something to note for a number of reasons. The fact that Twitter, as a company continues to increase their editorially-created lists might mean that they might take more of an active role in telling people who you should follow in different verticals. Maybe they’ll even start to hire a new-age kind of journalists eventually. Most likely this list is meant to get the TV world excited about Twitter and encourage them to continue to put tweets on air and buy promoted trends and accounts for big TV events.
Either way, it’s interesting to see who they picked. We took a quick tally and among the top 5 networks and CBS has the most shows (20) listed.