Deadpeople

Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer of Dr Johnson's Dictionary of Modern Life, publish'd by Square Peg on 2nd September. Celebrity Gout-Sufferer of the Year 1768
20,303 followers |

John Quincy Adams

The line-a-day diary entries of John Quincy Adams, beginning with his journey to Russia on 5 August 1809. A project of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
17,912 followers |

Kurt Vonnegut

12,469 followers |

Edgar Allan Poe

Woebegone Poet, Prickly scribbler of the Fantastic, Inebriate, Literary Critic, Editor
11,286 followers |

Historical Tweets

Humorous Twitter messages from the history books, now in book form: Historical Tweets is in stores and online.
7,126 followers |

Samuel Pepys

17th century London diarist Twittering 1667's events.
6,642 followers |

Charles Darwin

Geologist, naturalist and gentleman. On board The Beagle with Capt Fitzroy on a voyage around the world
4,018 followers |

George Washington

3,924 followers |

gandhi_bot

Quotes from the Mahatma, always served fresh !
3,702 followers |

Kennedy1960

On the campaign trail with John F. Kennedy -- 50 years later. Experience the day-to-day workings of JFK's road to the White House. A project of the JFK Library.
3,552 followers |

Sigmund Freud

Austrian psychiatrist.
3,157 followers |

William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit. http://www.flocabulary.com/macbeth.html
3,026 followers |

William Shakespeare

What, pray, ist thou doing?
2,654 followers |

Thomas Jefferson

Author of the Declaration of American Independence of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom and Graduate of the College of William and Mary
1,878 followers |

Tiny Confucius

SEND ME YOUR Quotes from Confucius, Ancient Chinese philosophy.
1,705 followers |

Boston Globe Books

News and reviews from the Boston Globe
1,524 followers |

A Genius

Lover, genius, poet, playwright, lover, popinjay, lover
1,266 followers |

Julia Child

Master Chef-Teaching the world the art of fine food
826 followers |

Friedrich Nietzsche

Der Wanderer
791 followers |

Ernest Hemingway

American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist.
757 followers |

Jonathan Swift

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
568 followers |

William S. Burroughs

exterminator, novelist, social critic, opiate addict
551 followers |

Paul Revere

The famous Midnight Rider learning to spread news in the 21st century.
549 followers |

George, Lord Byron

Poet and revolutionary.
542 followers |

Charles Dickens

Author and journalist, living among the merry horrors of London
440 followers |

Marshall McLuhan

High Priest of Popcult, Metaphysician of Media
369 followers |

Paul Lessing

Inventor of advertising. Original Ad Maverick. Founder of Lessing-Flynn, the oldest ad agency west of the Mississippi. Loves a juicy steak over an open fire.
91 followers |

HenryThoreau

Henry David Thoreau, American Writer, Philosopher, Naturalist
82 followers |

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