Michaeldthomas is, in real life, Michael D Thomas. He is the only Tweeter who posted to the #Torchwood tag on 1st November whose Twitter name matches his real life name. Michael describes himself on Twitter as:" I am the primary caregiver for my daughter who has Aicardi syndrome. I write books about Doctor Who."
Michael's tweets tend to reflect both of these areas mixing detailed updates about his daughter's health, wellbeing and medical encounters along with postings about Doctor Who and, less frequently, Torchwood.
Michael has been on Twitter since August 2008. He follows 83 people and is followed by 87 people and has posted about 1300 Tweets today. Looking through a typical day of his twitter stream finds a high number of replies and conversations indicating that those he does connect to on Twitter are valued and close friends - something also reflected in the consistent posting of comments on his blog.
Michael has bi-directional (following and followed by) connections to @2minutetimelord and @spastasmagoria. These three Tweeters are clearly linked by their enthusiasm and activity around Torchwood and Doctor Who with 2minutetimelord podcasting, spastasmagoria creating an original Torchwood comic book and Michael writing short science fiction stories about Doctor Who. His blog also makes mention of his frequent attendance of conventions, something which I think allow occasional real world connections with the electronic communities of some of the #Torchwood twitterers.
These contacts are clearly also strong personal bonds beyond the scope of the programmes with Michael particularly engaging in lots of back and forth Twitter conversations with spastasmagoria and mentioning the spastasmagoria blog from time to time in his own blog (e.g: "I love it when my friends become successful"). He also sits within a wider livejournal community of writers and science fiction writers and was, in August 2009, attempting to set up a virtual club for science fiction writers to support each other.
Michaeldthomas Twitter Page is: http://twitter.com/michaeldthomas/
Michael's blog can be found here: http://michaeldthomas.livejournal.com/