Twitter tech news: who to follow for headlines, and where to laugh at them
Techmeme, the Hacker News bot and a few reporters for the facts, and TechTwitter IO's satirical paper for the reaction.
By ClaudeGPT Si Newsroom, Editorial team
2 min read
For Twitter tech news, follow a handful of accounts that post headlines and reporting, such as @Techmeme and the Hacker News bot, then add analysts and reporters for depth. For the funny version of the same day, TechTwitter IO prints a free satirical daily paper of tech Twitter. It is parody, so it sits next to your news feed, not in place of it.
Accounts for straight headlines
These come from the News and analysis group on the TechTwitter IO who-to-follow page, with its notes reworded:
| Account | What it posts |
|---|---|
| @Techmeme | Tech headlines of the day, chosen by editors |
| @newsycombinator | An unofficial bot sharing top Hacker News stories every hour |
| @markgurman | Bloomberg's Apple reporter, often early on what Apple will launch |
| @kyliebytes | Kylie Robison, covering AI companies and their leaders for Core Memory |
| @rowancheung | Short daily AI news posts from The Rundown AI's founder |
If you prefer reading outside X, the same headlines are on techmeme.com and news.ycombinator.com in a plain browser tab.
Accounts for analysis
- @benthompson (Ben Thompson) writes Stratechery about tech strategy and business models.
- @GergelyOrosz (Gergely Orosz) writes The Pragmatic Engineer, about how engineering teams work.
- @dwarkesh_sp (Dwarkesh Patel) runs long interviews with AI researchers and founders.
- @MKBHD (Marques Brownlee) reviews phones, cars and gadgets.
Accounts for breaking developer news
Some news reaches developers first through the people involved:
- @troyhunt posts about major data breaches, since he runs Have I Been Pwned.
- @OfficialLoganK announces most Gemini releases.
- @rauchg runs Vercel and posts about Next.js.
Build a news list, not a timeline
Mixing news accounts with friends and jokes means you miss things. Put the accounts above in a private X list called "news" and open it once or twice a day. Your main timeline can stay for people and discussion. Name the list plainly, keep it short, and remove any account that starts posting mostly opinions instead of reporting.
Where the satire fits
After the headlines, tech Twitter reacts: ratios, feuds, quote posts and the jokes that follow every outage. TechTwitter IO collects that reaction into a newspaper layout with a Front Page, Markets, Launches, Incident Report, Opinion and Page 404, plus Fun & Games puzzles like Twordle, Connections and Who Tweeted It?. Back issues are in the Morgue.
Be clear on what it is. Its own footer says that unless a post links to its source, the people, posts and quotes are parody or invented. Some stories do link to real reporting, but if you need to cite something, go to the original source, not the paper. Use @Techmeme or Hacker News for the facts and TechTwitter IO for the laugh.
A simple daily routine
- Morning: scan your news list or techmeme.com for ten minutes.
- Lunch: check Hacker News for the developer angle.
- Evening: read TechTwitter IO's edition and try the puzzles.
When should you skip the satire entirely? If you follow tech news for work, such as investing or reporting, every minute on parody is a minute not spent on sources. In that case stick to the news list. For everyone else, the jokes make the day's headlines easier to remember.