Intellectual Repository
Neil Gaiman
will eventually grow up and get a real job. Until then, will keep making things up and writing them down.1,685,151 followers | Follow
BBC News (World)
The latest stories, features and updates from BBC News (World edition). For UK edition, follow @BBCNews. For breaking news, follow @BBCBreaking1,554,264 followers | Follow
Tim O'Reilly
Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Watching the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold.1,532,627 followers | Follow
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is a weekly magazine with a mix of reporting of politics and culture, humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry, and reviews and criticism.1,345,856 followers | Follow
Lonely Planet
Tweeting (& retweeting) the best in travel. 1. Follow us. 2. Tag your tweets with #lp 3. We read your posts 4. We re-tweet the best of them612,139 followers | Follow
New Scientist
New Scientist is the world's leading science and technology weekly479,475 followers | Follow
NY Review of Books
‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’328,681 followers | Follow
Fake AP Stylebook
Style tips for proper writing. contact: fakeapstylebook at gmail dot com. No submissions, please. All material copyright The Bureau Chiefs, LLC.268,724 followers | Follow
The Paris Review
Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953. Who's tweeting? @NatalieJacoby.185,700 followers | Follow
BP Public Relations
This page exists to get BP's message and mission statement out into the twitterverse!158,848 followers | Follow
The Nation
As America's oldest and most widely read weekly magazine of opinion, The Nation is committed to expanding the reach of principled journalistic voices.157,252 followers | Follow
Timothy McSweeney
The Twitter feed of Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and McSweeney's Books.152,687 followers | Follow
Maria Popova
Interestingness curator and semi-secret geek obsessed with combinatorial creativity. Editor of @brainpickings. Bylines for @WiredUK @TheAtlantic @DesignObserver141,768 followers | Follow
Nouriel Roubini
Professor at Stern School, NYU, Chairman of Roubini Global Economics (www.roubini.com), blog at www.economonitor.com/nouriel/ , co-author of Crisis Economics138,624 followers | Follow
Boing Boing
The official BoingBoing.net feed: headlines and links to each blog post, video, and feature we publish.120,335 followers | Follow
SundanceFilmFestival
We find, love and share the best independent films in the world. We are presented by the non-profit Sundance Institute.110,310 followers | Follow
The Millions
'The indispensable literary site' - The New York Times | 'Lots of reasons to love The Millions' - The Guardian | 'A fantastic website' - Utne Reader98,855 followers | Follow
nyrbclassics
Tweets from the Managing Editor of NYRB Classics, independent publishers of little-known classics. Website: www.nyrb.com93,241 followers | Follow
William Gibson
71,122 followers | Follow
danah boyd
social media scholar, youth researcher & advocate | Microsoft Research, Harvard Berkman Center | zephoria@zephoria.org59,222 followers | Follow
Harper's Magazine
An American general-interest magazine published since 1850. Tweetings by @jeremy_keehn, sundry Harpies.48,244 followers | Follow
Samuel Johnson
Gouty Lexicographer of Dr Johnson's Dictionary of Modern Life, publish'd by Square Peg. Currently in the American Colonies with Mrs THRALE.39,625 followers | Follow
London Review (LRB)
'The London Review of Books is the liveliest, the most serious and also the most radical literary magazine we have.' Alan Bennett36,340 followers | Follow
Jennifer 8. Lee
Journalist, writer. Awesome Food trustee. Hacks/Hackers organizer. Dreaming of the future of media: The story continues. jenny@jennifer8lee.com.32,743 followers | Follow
Open Society
The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens.32,072 followers | Follow
Robert Cettl
Digital Publisher | ALIA member | Author | Filmmaker | TESOL Teacher | Atheist | Film Reviewer | Eroticist31,371 followers | Follow
Howard Rheingold
Independent thinker, online instigator, novice educator, expert learner, offline gardener.27,234 followers | Follow
William Easterly
NYU Econ Prof; author White Man's Burden, critic of nonsense in fighting global poverty, advocate of individual rights for all; keep your irony alert on.23,921 followers | Follow
O'Reilly Radar
O'Reilly Media's group blog about emerging technologies. Twitter feed managed by Mac Slocum, Alex Howard and Jenn Webb.21,764 followers | Follow
Kurt Andersen
I have a new novel called True Believers coming out in July (Random House).21,635 followers | Follow
This American Life
I am a radio and TV show. This is my story in 140 characters. Unofficial RSS feed.21,386 followers | Follow
Greg Mitchell
Blogger for The Nation. Author of 13 books (see link below) on OWS, WikiLeaks, Beethoven, Atomic Cover-Up. Former ed. at Editor & Publisher and Crawdaddy.19,904 followers | Follow
kottke.org
Officially verified Twitter account of kottke.org, the home of fine hypertext products19,840 followers | Follow
Kristina Halvorson
CEO, Brain Traffic. Author, Content Strategy for the Web. I like content strategy. I think you should, too.17,415 followers | Follow
Sarah Milstein
Co-author of The Twitter Book. New edition! http://amzn.to/TwitterBook2e. Vegetables. Art. Dogs. Shoes. Social justice. Between gigs. http://dogsandshoes.com14,399 followers | Follow
StoryCorps
Our mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives.14,143 followers | Follow
Lapham's Quarterly
Lapham's Quarterly is a journal of history and ideas edited by Lewis Lapham. The current issue is on Family11,579 followers | Follow
Scott Berkun
Writer, Author of Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds, The Myths of Innovation, Making things Happen, & Confessions of a Public Speaker11,090 followers | Follow
Ecco Books
Book publisher, imprint of HarperCollins. Home to Russell Banks, Joyce Carol Oates, Anthony Bourdain, Patti Smith, Charles Bukowski, Richard Ford, & many more.8,897 followers | Follow
Mark Twain
8,632 followers | Follow
Book Culture
Independent Bookstore with two locations in Morningside Heights7,358 followers | Follow
Oxford Academic
Oxford University Press’s academic news and insights for the thinking world, brought to you by OUPblog editors Alice & Nicola.7,076 followers | Follow
Useless Knowledge
6,921 followers | Follow
Len Edgerly
Host of the weekly Kindle Chronicles & Edge of the Road podcasts. Co-Founder of E-Books for Troops.4,650 followers | Follow
h+ Magazine
h+ Magazine covers technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing human beings in fundamental ways.4,043 followers | Follow
FOUND Magazine
We collect FOUND stuff -- love letters, photos, to-do lists, poetry on napkins, doodles -- anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's life.4,021 followers | Follow
Library of America
Nonprofit publisher dedicated to preserving America's best and most significant writing3,912 followers | Follow
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 Mary3,394 followers | Follow
Word of Mouth
Word of Mouth is produced @NHPR. Our feed is managed by Senior Producer Rebecca Lavoie.2,635 followers | Follow
Michel Foucault
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same . . . Let us leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order’2,551 followers | Follow
Genevieve Spencer
This is the real line-a-day diary of a young farmgirl in the late 1930s. It is maintained by her great-nephew, @griner2,399 followers | Follow
The American Scholar
A quarterly journal of literature, science and culture published for a general readership since 1932.2,152 followers | Follow
Robert Scoble
1,852 followers | Follow
Matthew Battles
Uncanny riffs on nature, culture, technology, & imagination; editor & curatorial practice fellow with @metaLABharvard, Berkman Center for Internet & Society.1,762 followers | Follow
Heshan Weeramuni
designer, sociologist, blader, cravat wearer, dreams of a 1986 928s3.5223 followers | Follow
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