When everybody from Shaquille O’Neal to Jack Welch to Oprah is doing the same thing on a daily basis (besides breathing, eating, core human behavior, etc.), that “thing” is officially a phenomenon. Such is the case with Twitter.
Seemingly everybody who has something worth saying has taken to the micro-blog, but several noteworthy holdouts remain. This blog exists to encourage them to jump on the bandwagon. If for no other reason, I’d love to see what these folks could do with 140 characters.
1) Steve Jobs – Apple CEO. Granted, his presence alone may shut the entire network down (see: Macworld 2009, http://bit.ly/aXOd0) but for someone as cutting edge as Mr. Jobs, it would be thrilling to have his voice in the Tweetdom.
2) Muhammad Yunus – Founder, Grameen Bank. The genius behind microcredit and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Microcredit meets micro-blogging. Makes sense.
3) Sergio Marchionne – CEO, FIAT-Chrysler. 10 years from now, we are going to want to know the day-to-day thoughts of the chain-smoking Canadian-Italian turnaround king who saved Chrysler.
4) David Brooks – Columnist & resident rationalist, the New York Times. As pithy as his columns are, imagine what kind of knowledge could be pack in a Tweet.
5) Grant Hill – Forward, Phoenix Suns. This one it completely self-serving. I grew up a Duke fan and have admired Grant Hill as a player and person for well over a decade. He has a Twitter page, but has been inactive since April – come back to us Grant, you well-adjusted, six-time all-star, you.
6) Warren Buffett – CEO, Berkshire Hathaway. If you are not interesting in what the milkshake-drinking, cheeseburger-eating, billionaire Sage of Omaha has to say, we seriously need you to leave this site.
7) President George W. Bush. Interested to see how he’s kept occupied, post-White House. Regardless of your political leanings, this would be a compelling daily read.
8) Herb Kelleher – former CEO, Southwest Airlines. One of the most intriguingly successful people of the past half-century. He stayed profitable in a notoriously unprofitable industry, and his late-night smoke-a-thons were the stuff of legends. How is he staying busy now?
9) David Gergen – Professor & Political Commentator. As far as leadership in politics and the media goes, David Gergen is the calm in the storm. If nothing else, a commonsense tweet from him every once in a while would do us all a world of good.
Who is missing?
