I follow 3700-or-so Twitter accounts. Some of them are companies, but most are people. And I'm interested in people's personal websites.
So I looked through all their profiles to see who had a link to their personal website. I was only interested in the personal websites, domain names their they own, not company websites, linkedin profiles, their substack, et, and not their university profile page for the lecturers and professors that I follow.
I was going to create a list of all of them but by the time I reached fifty I got bored, so the title of this blog changed from 'The personal websites of people I follow on Twitter' to 'The personal websites of 50 people I follow on Twitter'.
Why do we have personal websites?
Personal websites serve many purposes: Digital gardens to record and explore ideas, blogs, portfolios of previous work, lead generation for their business, somewhere to publish where we feel we own the content and so own our personal brand.
Salmon Ansari introduced me to the ideas of POSSE, Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, and PESOS, the Publish Everywhere Syndicate (to your) Own Site