Explaining My Tweep List

I chose to add Philip Defranco as one of my “tweeps”because I believe he is very knowledgeable about literately starting from nothing but a camera and Internet access, keeping one’s self afloat, becoming one’s own broadcaster and eventually develop not only a business, but essentially a franchise, and all the while working with the Internet community eventually forming his own community. To explain: (1) Philip Defranco starting posting videos to YouTube in 2006 and created the Philip Defranco Show. DeFranco began building an audience by speaking frankly in his videos about pop culture, entertainment news, politics and world events. (2) In 2007 he created Like Totally Awesome, a YouTube channel which generally reviews movies, game, or technology. (3) In 2007, he also created The Vloggity, a YouTube channel, which is an informal video log. (4) In April 2011, he created his website/blog. (5) In December 2011, he created Sourcefed, a website and YouTube channel, which he hopes to be the next news network. Overall, Defranco has built a considerable audience with over 2.2 million subscribers, has created successful YouTube channels and so far, a successful company, Defranco Inc.

Secondly, I chose to add both Lewis Brindley and Simon Lane as two more “tweeps” because they too appear to be very knowledgeable about starting a company and Internet community by using technology. To explain: Lewis Brindley and Simon Lane are the creators of the Yogscast, a group of producersof highly successful videos and podcasts, generally about video games. They have a community of Yogna(ugh)ts which gather on their website, a podcast, multiple YouTube accounts [1, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9], and remarkably, the two people who began the Yogscast started with the idea of sharing Simon’s natural humor with the world.” A lot of people enjoyed hearing his unique perspectives on things as they played games together- and it all started from there.” [Link]. Overall, Lewis and Simon have built a remarkable audience with over 2.5 million subscribers on their main account; have created successful YouTube channels and a successful brand, the Yogscast.