Tech Tip: Twitter Follow

Hey and welcome back to my blog! In this blog I will be talking about the tech tip I did for this week.

This week I learned how to follow someone on twitter. I read an article which talked the top accounts for game design students to follow. I decided to follow @Gamasultra. Gamasutra is a web site dedicated to the “art and business of video games.” It’s chock full of articles related to game design and the video game business.

Can't wait to learn more!

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