Web Innovators

Twitter

Always wondering what's happening.
7,654,245 followers |

Bill Gates

Sharing things I'm learning through my foundation work and other interests...
5,421,361 followers |

Zappos.com CEO -Tony

deliveringhappiness.com www.zappos.com
1,967,651 followers |

Jack Dorsey

Executive Chairman of Twitter, CEO of Square, a founder of both.
1,857,749 followers |

Biz Stone

Co-founder of Twitter, Inc.
1,852,932 followers |

Evan Williams

Farm boy from Nebraska. Husband and father. Co-founder of Twitter. Partner at @ObviousCorp
1,451,987 followers |

Chris Anderson

TED = Ideas worth spreading!
1,332,000 followers |

Kevin Rose

Co-Founder and CEO of Milk Inc (@milk). Founder of digg.com. @tea drinker.
1,315,882 followers |

Eric Schmidt

Executive Chairman & former CEO
429,942 followers |

Chad Hurley

Co-Founder, YouTube; CEO, Delicious; Chairman, Hlaska.
375,626 followers |

Dave Morin

Co-Founder and CEO of Path.
299,912 followers |

Ryan Sarver

platform/api at twitter
276,228 followers |

Laughing Squid

An online resource for art, culture and technology run by editor-in-chief and head curator @ScottBeale.
260,885 followers |

Cory Doctorow

Writer, blogger, activist. If you want a reply, use email. Blog suggestions here: http://boingboing.net/submit/
222,147 followers |

Danny Sullivan

Editor of SearchEngineLand.com, covering Google, SEO, PPC and all aspects of search engines and search marketing.
220,337 followers |

Lessig

law professor, reformer.
177,545 followers |

Mark Zuckerberg

133,645 followers |

John Doerr

111,226 followers |

John Lilly

Partner @ Greylock, former CEO @ Mozilla, dad, husband, son, nerd
96,402 followers |

Nick Kallen

Wealth and personal achievement expert
91,216 followers |

Tom Conrad

Music, Tech, TV, @kate8. CTO/EVP Product at Pandora.
77,983 followers |

John Resig

Creator of jQuery, JavaScript programmer, blogger, author, work on Khan Academy.
68,582 followers |

Avinash Kaushik

Author, Web Analytics 2.0 & Web Analytics: An Hour A Day | Digital Marketing Evangelist, Google | Co-Founder, Market Motive
68,046 followers |

Jimmy Wales

With your help, we stopped #SOPA!
63,826 followers |

Caterina Fake

Cofounder of Flickr and Hunch
62,526 followers |

Tim Berners-Lee

Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) w3.org, the place to agree on web standards. Founded webfoundation.org - let the web serve humanity
61,334 followers |

danah boyd

social media scholar, youth researcher & advocate | Microsoft Research, Harvard Berkman Center | zephoria@zephoria.org
59,141 followers |

Wikipedia

Wikipedia's official Twitter account!
54,181 followers |

DHH

Creator of Ruby on Rails, Partner at 37signals, Co-author of Rework and Getting Real
53,438 followers |

Scott Guthrie

I live in Seattle and build a few products for Microsoft
53,399 followers |

Reid Hoffman

Entrepreneur. Investor. Strategist.
50,521 followers |

Mitch Kapor

startup investor and advisor, social change advocate/activist
49,358 followers |

Dave Winer ☮

Developed first blogging software, RSS and podcasting, outliners, web CMS. Media hacker. Boot strapper. Writer. Academic. Friendly. :-)
44,688 followers |

Dennis Crowley

I like snowboards, foursquare and unemployment.
40,073 followers |

Matt Mullenweg

WordPress, Automattic, Akismet, Polldaddy, VaultPress, Gravatar...
37,252 followers |

Chris Messina™

Bachelor of Arts. I work at Google. #godfather (http://nyti.ms/lJ6Kdj) I am not the actor. http://wiki.factoryjoe.com/140-Character-Bios
36,660 followers |

Joe Hewitt

Software developer. Voluntaryist.
35,286 followers |

Alex Payne

CTO, Simple. Programmer, writer, secular humanist, beverage enthusiast.
34,082 followers |

Esther Dyson

Internet court jEsther -- I occupy Esther Dyson. www.flickr.com/photos/edyson
26,110 followers |

Tantek Çelik

barcamp bike climb code create css design evolve hack html5 listen microformats mozilla open optimist pescatarian scientist skeptic standards teach think ux web
25,958 followers |

Adam Curry

Lone Wolf Belligerent from the Lone Star State
25,758 followers |

Leah Culver

Founder of Grove (grove.io) and Convore (convore.com). Former co-founder of Pownce.
23,452 followers |

Max Levchin

entrepreneur (PayPal, Slide), investor (Yelp, etc), l33t h@x0r, cyclist
23,429 followers |

Narendra Rocherolle

President, Message Bus. Creator Webshots, 30 Boxes, Power Twitter, The Start Project, and inventor of the little things like the retweet.
23,410 followers |

Andrew Mason

Founder/CEO of Groupon, online enthusiast
23,000 followers |

Tim Bray

Web geek with a camera, currently doing Android stuff at Google.
21,984 followers |

Rackspace Hosting

Fanatical Support™. Have questions? Need help? E-mail help@rackspace.com or call us toll-free or internationally: http://bit.ly/D0Zcv
20,327 followers |

Molly E. Holzschlag

-webkit-molly is feeling incompatible with all y'all.
19,195 followers |

joshua schachter

Entrepreneur and Angel Investor
18,245 followers |

Kevin Marks

Reading your thoughts. if you write them first.
17,716 followers |

Dries Buytaert

Creator of Drupal, Drupal project lead, co-founder and CTO of Acquia, and Mollom spam fighter.
16,988 followers |

Jason Shellen

Head of AIM Products at AOL. Formerly, of Thing Labs (Brizzly), Pyra Labs (Blogger) & Google. Married to @ashellen (since '98!) & father of two little dudes.
16,364 followers |

wycats

HTML5 is a jewel that we need to cut into a weapon @dalmaer
16,361 followers |

Ross Mayfield

Internet entrepreneur. VP Biz Dev at SlideShare. Chairman and Co-founder of Socialtext.
16,329 followers |

Paul Buchheit

I don't exist.
15,424 followers |

Ward Cunningham

Objects, Patterns, Agile, Wiki
15,148 followers |

Rod Beckstrom

CEO-Catalyst/Starfish&Spider Co-author/CyberSecurity/ex-Fed/YPO/ICANN
15,039 followers |

Bret Taylor

CTO of Facebook. Previously co-founder/CEO of FriendFeed.
14,686 followers |

Dion Almaer

technologist and human dev aggregator
13,629 followers |

Andy Baio

I make web stuff. Waxy.org, Expert Labs, Supercut.org, Kind of Bloop, Upcoming.org. Wired columnist. Helped build Kickstarter. P.S. I love you.
13,287 followers |

Blaine

12,445 followers |

Nova Spivack

Serial Web entrepreneur & venture producer. Follow for news & ideas about emerging tech, innovation and startups. Full bio: http://novaspivack.com/about
12,164 followers |

Tariq KRIM

jolicloud and netvibes founder
12,021 followers |

Matt Galligan

Entrepreneur, craft beer enthusiast, musician, photographer. Co-Founder & CEO of @Circa. Co-Founded @1PercentOf, @SimpleGeo & @Socialthing.
11,882 followers |

Chris Wetherell

Making new, unreleased things. Former head of AIM products at AOL. Co-founder of Thing Labs. Started Brizzly.com. Started Google Reader.
10,530 followers |

Tom Preston-Werner

GitHub Cofounder - Social Coding (github.com)
10,136 followers |

Derek Powazek

Your opinion of me is none of my business. http://bit.ly/cYC9Fg
9,294 followers |

Jyri Engeström

Ditto and Jaiku founder
9,207 followers |

Aaron Patzer

Founder of Mint.com, Founder Swift PRT
9,207 followers |

Don MacAskill

Co-Founder, CEO & Chief Geek @SmugMug. Leia, Logan, and Audrey's Papa. Lover of Liz.
9,037 followers |

Adam D'Angelo

8,623 followers |

David Recordon

8,284 followers |

Martin Odersky

lead designer of Scala
7,654 followers |

Andrew Baron

Creator of Rocketboom, Know Your Meme and Magma
7,644 followers |

Thomas Cook

Entrepreneur and Web Strategist
7,452 followers |

Joseph Smarr

Social Web Engineer at Google. Former CTO of Plaxo. Opening up the Social Web.
7,428 followers |

Kevin Fox

I fight for the users.
7,095 followers |

Brad Fitzpatrick

hacker, drinker, gopher.
7,095 followers |

Chris Saad

Co-Founder of APML & Backplane, DataPortability.org, SynapticWeb.org and others. Co-Founder & VP Strategy @EchoEnabled
6,862 followers |

Bram Cohen

The Creator of BitTorrent. Also father, entrepreneur, puzzle inventor, and juggler
6,298 followers |

Apache Hadoop

Open source software for reliable, distributed, scalable computing.
6,228 followers |

David Kaneda

Creative director at Sencha. Pushing pixels, crafting code, and abusing alliterations since 1983.
6,067 followers |

Stewart Butterfield

I'm trying my hardest!
6,038 followers |

Avi Bryant

Now just on Twitter instead of at Twitter.
5,873 followers |

Lars Rasmussen

5,658 followers |

Kaliya-IdentityWoman

User-Centric ID expert, Facilitator of the Internet ID Workshop +unconf's. Founder Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium. Nymwarrior: Persona's are People too!
5,272 followers |

Nicholas Negroponte

founder, MIT Media Lab, One Laptop per Child
5,269 followers |

Andrew Crow

Design Director at GE. Speaker, designer, strategist. Past lives include VP at Razorfish and designer at Adaptive Path. I like to poke things with sticks.
4,880 followers |

Brian Fitzpatrick

Liberator of Data, Googler, Open Source Dude, Geek.
4,662 followers |

DeWitt Clinton

Googler, mostly
4,346 followers |

Rich Hickey

4,132 followers |

Cassandra Database

The Cassandra distributed database combines the replication model of Amazon's Dynamo with the data model of Google's Bigtable
3,922 followers |

Dan Bricklin

One of the VisiCalc guys, DB Demo, Trellix, blogging, podcasting, SocialCalc, iPad apps (Note Taker HD), etc., and president of Software Garden, Inc. (SGI)
3,887 followers |

Scott Raymond

Co-founder & CTO of Gowalla. Ruby/ Cocoa/ JavaScript developer. Author. Indoorsman.
3,563 followers |

Jason Hoffman

I am a Joyeur. CTO and founder @joyent (http://joyent.com/ http://joyentcloud.com/ http://nodejs.org/ and http://smartos.org/)
3,268 followers |

Chris Wilson

Daddy, Web platform guy, heretic, Googler, photographer, diver & general troublemaker. hasBeenLayout == true.
3,236 followers |

Lili Cheng

3,021 followers |

raanan bar-cohen

Head of media services at @Automattic / WordPress.com VIP: http://vip.wordpress.com
2,918 followers |

Roy T. Fielding

Principal Scientist at Adobe Systems Inc. Co-founder Apache, author HTTP and URI standards, defined REST architectural style
2,836 followers |

Sam Ruby

Open Web Communities
2,749 followers |

Doug Cutting

2,514 followers |

Evan Prodromou

Hacker and entrepreneur. Montreal and San Francisco. Founder and CEO of StatusNet Inc.
2,299 followers |

MitchellBaker

2,284 followers |

Brad Neuberg

Geek hippie
2,145 followers |

Ali Sohani

Startup Advisor, system designer & architect, entrepreneur, seed-stage angel. Likes: agile, emergence, machine learning, open source, decentralized systems.
1,897 followers |

Kraig Swensrud

marketing @salesforce, entrepreneur, startup advisor, product strategy/design.
1,758 followers |

Nick Bradbury

Creator of HomeSite, TopStyle, FeedDemon, and Glassboard Android.
1,741 followers |

Mike Milinkovich

Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation.
1,560 followers |

Fred Davis

Media guy, tech visionary. Start-up guy: CNET, Wired, & Ask Jeeves. Award-winning journalist. Editor of A+, MacUser, PC Magazine, & PC Week. Author of 12 books
1,438 followers |

Jonathan Glick

Sulia
1,431 followers |

bartd

Entrepreneur. Founder and CEO of Tapulous, the company behind Tap Tap Revenge, the most popular game on the iPhone. www.decremental.com
1,090 followers |

Mark Atwood

Open Source & Open Standards advocate. Resident of the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle.
1,051 followers |

Brad Templeton

EFF Chairman, Entrepreneur
1,014 followers |

Gary Burd

Vim, of course.
988 followers |

Rick Clark

Principal Engineer, Cisco. Founder and former Project Lead of OpenStack. In a previous life I was the Dev manager for Ubuntu Server, which I still love.
956 followers |

Bryan Zmijewski

I'm the chief instigator at ZURB, an interaction design and strategy studio. We've helped over 150 start-ups since 1998. Love my wife and 3 kiddos!
917 followers |

Mark Birbeck

889 followers |

John Panzer

I hack social software
828 followers |

David Shadle

Helping to create customer experiences that are data driven, connected, socially enabled & contextual/relevant across multiple touch points.
680 followers |

Bill Atkinson

Apple pioneer QuickDraw, MacPaint, HyperCard, Within the Stone, PhotoCard, nature photos, fine-art prints, color management, neuroscience, inventor, Numenta
586 followers |

Tony Chor

I work on Bing, so I'm also a whisky drinker (and bacon lover.)
558 followers |

Alex Kosorukoff

I do research in human-based computation, evolutionary computation, machine learning, collective intelligence
516 followers |

Nicolas Keller

Dad - Husband - Stacker - Cloud - Mountain Biker - Reefkeeper
476 followers |

Ryan King

CTO @ Plaxo / Comcast Silicon Valley
329 followers |

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