I would like to hear announcements of new YC company launches. That way people can see a list of all companies YC funded by following the twitter feed.

I second this, and would include major follow-up launches, too.

It would also be good to see some announcement of launches by HNers (not just YC funded).

Set a cap of 2-3k karma or something to keep the volume down - a bit of promotion would be a nice reward for those who do a lot to keep the community going. (Plus it'd be interesting.)

May be RT some good tweets from YC members, News, updates.

Curate lists of YC companies, founders, VCs, etc.

Yes, I'd like to see a /ycombinator/founders list and a /ycombinator/companies list.

I would like minute details and stream of thoughts during key YC moments. :) also what PG is having for breakfast - everyday.

I would enjoy that unironically — play to the strengths of the medium, don't just syndicate stuff from elsewhere.

Post pithy commentary, triumphant twitpics of shit you're doing, praise/respond/slam others on the web talking about you (via RT where sensible) selectively respond to @repiles, etc.

exactly!

I would like to hear quality PG essays, or rather similar new content condensed to Twitter format.

Also, it's always good to retweet interesting things the people you follow say, or things that get said over the course of YC presentations and the like.

"I would like to hear quality PG essays, or rather similar new content condensed to Twitter format."

Not impossible! pg's written one-sentence essays--he just noted once in this thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554907) that "you have to attribute them to someone else". Oddly enough there is a http://twitter.com/taraploughman

I think this might be one of the best uses of Twitter, personally--one sentence essays. Isn't that what shitmydadsays boils down to?

@shitmydadsays is my favorite twitterer :)

I also like @kurt_vonnegut... he is a bot my friend set up that tweets quotes from the dead author.

Other good people are @ev, @kn0thing, @raganwald, @jwc, @jeresig... people you might expect would be good. @kn0thing keeps me on top of my reddits :)

Check out @fireland and also read his past tweets. Probably not to everyone's tastes, but I think he's hilarious.

You can check out some of his best efforts at FavStar:

http://favstar.fm/users/fireland

Clickable: http://twitter.com/ycombinator

If the twitter YC account follows mostly YC Alumns, that's pretty useful in itself for keeping up with the brands and people that have graduated.

It would be helpful if they created Twitter lists, separating alumni by the year and season when they joined...

can just setup a few lists: companies / founders / current batch companies / current batch founders

Switch on Posterous auto-tweet into that stream.

- Also, I'd switch on commenting on the Posterous blog, or else place a link under each article to the HN entry.

If I would chart the timedate of when various yc people or companies get followed by the ycombinator account, I bet I would have a lot of information about what is currently happening at the office. But I'm too lazy and I don't really care.

On a slightly related note, the @newsycombinator bot hit 10,000 followers yesterday: http://twitter.com/newsycombinator

Is this your bot? If so a second link to the Hacker News discuss page would be nice.

The remaining 60 chars should be enough for three URLs!