Technology Elite

Bill Gates

Sharing things I'm learning through my foundation work and other interests...
6,808,269 followers |

Noah Everett

The nice guy that finished first - founder of Twitpic
4,368,938 followers |

Biz Stone

Co-founder of Twitter, Inc.
1,908,342 followers |

Tim O'Reilly

Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Watching the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold.
1,563,662 followers |

Evan Williams

Farm boy from Nebraska. Husband and father. Co-founder of Twitter. Partner at @ObviousCorp
1,484,553 followers |

Steven Johnson

Writer. (7 books, most recently Where Good Ideas Come From.) Web site creator (3 companies, most recently outside.in.) Dad (three boys.)
1,439,101 followers |

Kevin Rose

Venture Partner at Google Ventures. Founder of digg.com. @tea drinker.
1,337,284 followers |

Om Malik

Founder of GigaOM. Venture Partner at True Ventures
1,297,009 followers |

Arianna Huffington

president and editor-in-chief of the huffington post media group. mother. sister. flat shoe advocate. sleep evangelist.
922,140 followers |

Steve Case

Co-founder of AOL; now Chairman of Case Foundation and Revolution (Zipcar, LivingSocial, Exclusive Resorts, Everyday Health, Revolution Money, Miraval, etc)
505,154 followers |

Eric Schmidt

Executive Chairman & former CEO
473,959 followers |

Anil Dash

I love NYC, tech & funk. You can see all the things I'm up to at http://anildash.com/ or reach me at anil@dashes.com or 646 833-8659.
409,284 followers |

Pierre Omidyar

Be you. Be cool. eBay, Omidyar Network, Peer News/Civil Beat.
407,440 followers |

Chad Hurley

Co-Founder, YouTube; CEO, Delicious; Chairman, Hlaska.
402,406 followers |

Matt Flannery

co-founder/CEO kiva.org
312,732 followers |

Fred Wilson

I am a VC
219,112 followers |

Clay Shirky

Bald. Unreliable. Easily distracte
208,611 followers |

Lessig

law professor, reformer.
192,766 followers |

John Battelle

A Founder of Federated Media, Web 2 Summit, Wired, Industry Standard; writer on Media, Technology, Culture, Business
180,509 followers |

Mark Zuckerberg

159,677 followers |

Jason Calacanis

I angel invest in awesome startups... and try to build them myself. Be excellent to each other.
143,466 followers |

Naomi Klein

they say I'm polarizing
126,815 followers |

John Doerr

123,613 followers |

John Lilly

Partner @ Greylock, former CEO @ Mozilla, dad, husband, son, nerd
104,874 followers |

Richard Rosenblatt

Co-Founder, Chrm and CEO, Demand Media. Let's talk business, social, and whatever is interesting at that moment
88,987 followers |

Loic Le Meur

Seesmic.com founder LeWeb.net conference founder and blogger. Loves kitesurfing and running!
87,204 followers |

Jason Fried

Founder of 37signals. Co-author of REWORK. Credo: It's simple until you make it complicated.
84,610 followers |

Chris Anderson

Wired EIC, Long Tail, FREE, DIY Drones, 3D Robotics, GeekDad, etc. (five kids in there, too)
78,845 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
69,812 followers |

Caterina Fake

Founder, Pinwheel. Cofounder of Flickr and Hunch
69,213 followers |

Jimmy Wales

With your help, we stopped #SOPA!
68,286 followers |

Paul Graham

67,586 followers |

Reid Hoffman

Entrepreneur. Investor. Strategist.
65,920 followers |

Martin Varsavsky

Tech entrepreneur and investor, founder of Viatel, Ya.com, Jazztel, and Fon. Contact email martin@fon.es.
57,219 followers |

Bill Gross

Founder of Technology Incubator Idealab and 100 companies in last 30 years. Tweeting while on my quest for learning in life and at conferences.
56,011 followers |

Mitch Kapor

startup investor and advisor, social change advocate/activist
54,494 followers |

craignewmark

customer service rep & founder for craigslist & craigconnects. Media inquiries please email: press@craigconnects.org.
53,087 followers |

Joel Spolsky

Co-founder of Fog Creek Software and Stack Overflow
52,773 followers |

Joi Ito

Director, MIT Media Lab
51,821 followers |

Paul Allen

Philanthropist, investor, entrepreneur, author, Seahawks & Blazers team owner, guitarist, neuroscience supporter, space pioneer & Microsoft co-founder
48,901 followers |

Dave Winer ☮

Developed first blogging software, RSS and podcasting, outliners, web CMS. Media hacker. Boot strapper. Writer. Academic. Friendly. :-)
48,247 followers |

Oliver Reichenstein

Designer
40,617 followers |

Marco Arment

Creator of Instapaper. Writer. Podcaster. Coffee enthusiast. Formerly of Tumblr.
38,609 followers |

Don Tapscott

Author (most recent book Macrowikinomics), consulting company CEO, Hammond B3 player, striving to live a principled life of consequence.
36,368 followers |

Marc Benioff

http://www.salesforce.com/company/leadership/executive-team/#benioff
34,195 followers |

Werner Vogels

CTO @ Amazon.com
33,341 followers |

martha lane fox

By day i am UK govt's digital champion+ founder/chair of @go_on_uk +by night @luckyvoice NED @mydeco, @marksandspencer, @orangeprize. Co-founded lastminute.com
32,177 followers |

Miguel de Icaza

Founder Xamarin, Ximian companies; Software programmer, founder Mono and Gnome projects.
29,806 followers |

Esther Dyson

Internet court jEsther -- I occupy Esther Dyson. www.flickr.com/photos/edyson
29,493 followers |

Howard Rheingold

Independent thinker, online instigator, novice educator, expert learner, offline gardener.
29,416 followers |

Max Levchin

entrepreneur (PayPal, Slide), investor (Yelp, etc), l33t h@x0r, cyclist
28,895 followers |

TedLeonsis

Entrepreneur, Sports Team Owner, Philanthropist, Venture Capitalist, and Filmmaker. Follow me for regular updates from my blog, Ted's Take.
26,628 followers |

Gabe Rivera

I run Techmeme. Sometimes I tweet what I mean. Sometimes I tweet the opposite. I'm not as nice as my picture here suggests. .
25,843 followers |

Clayton Christensen

Professor at Harvard Business School. Author of @MeasureYourLife. Tweets with occasional assistance from the Fellows at the Forum for Growth & Innovation.
24,680 followers |

Tim Bray

Web geek with a camera, currently doing Android stuff at Google.
23,118 followers |

Daniel Ek

CEO and founder of Spotify
22,950 followers |

Jonathan Zittrain

Professor @Harvard_Law, @Kennedy_School, @HSEAS Comp Sci Dept. + @BerkmanCenter; @EFF and @InternetSociety board member
20,735 followers |

John Brockman

Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein and Frankenstein
20,675 followers |

Sheryl Sandberg

Facebook, mother of 2, wife of awesome guy, friend to many great women
19,659 followers |

John Borthwick

CEO @betaworks
19,214 followers |

Andrew Keen

The Anti Christ of Silicon Valley
19,073 followers |

Ross Mayfield

Biz Dev for SlideShare, a LinkedIn company. Social, I called it...
18,099 followers |

Don Dodge

Start-up guy; Forte, AltaVista, Napster, Bowstreet, Groove, Microsoft, Google
16,807 followers |

douglas rushkoff

Media theorist, author; A.D.D. Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc. http://rushkoff.com
16,271 followers |

linus_torvalds

14,861 followers |

Andrew McAfee

Curious about the business impact of technology
14,100 followers |

Garrett

Founder of @StumbleUpon & @Uber
13,268 followers |

Tim Westergren

Founder of Pandora
11,652 followers |

Josh Williams

Product Manager, Location & Events at FB; Co-founder of Gowalla; Urban Cowboy Fashion Consultant; Inventor of the Rainbow Bar™
11,452 followers |

David Sifry

Dave is just this guy, see? Founder of Offbeat Guides, Technorati, Linuxcare, others...
11,008 followers |

Mike McCue

Flipboard co-founder, ceo
10,854 followers |

Bob Metcalfe

Bob Metcalfe is UTAustin Prof of Innovation, Murchison Fellow of Free Enterprise; Polaris Partner; MIT Trustee. Past: Harvard, PARC, Stanford, 3Com, InfoWorld.
10,411 followers |

Blake Ross

Cofounder of Firefox, Director of Product at Facebook
10,127 followers |

Jyri Engeström

Ditto and Jaiku founder
10,045 followers |

brenthoberman

cofounder lastminute.com, made.com, mydeco.com, founders forum,profounderscapital, non exec, gmg, talktalk,easycar and timeout
9,736 followers |

Ray Kurzweil

While my physical self remains cryogenically preserved in Yucca Mountain, I maintain an active VR life where I blog in anticipation of the singularity.
8,934 followers |

john seely brown

Chief of Confusion but was Chief Scientist of Xerox and head of the PARC. Big believer in the importance of cultivating imagination & a questing disposition.
8,512 followers |

Marko Ahtisaari

Nokia Design
8,271 followers |

Rahul Sood

founded voodoopc 1991 - sold to hp 2006 - now @ microsoft running the bing fund - i enjoy living life.
8,269 followers |

Rahul Vohra

CEO of Rapportive. Computer Scientist, Gamer, Entrepreneur.
8,170 followers |

Andrew Baron

Creator of @Rocketboom, @KnowYourMeme and @Magmavideos
7,659 followers |

Tom Eisenmann

Harvard Business School professor who studies lean startups, entrepreneurship, platforms, and network effects
7,549 followers |

Nick Halstead

Founder of DataSift Inc
7,048 followers |

Nolan K Bushnell

Serial Entrepreneur Founded Atari, Chuck E. Cheese, Etak, ByVideo, Axlon, uWink, and more to come...
6,755 followers |

Mike Davidson

Founding Designer & CEO of Newsvine, now a property of msnbc.com. Inventor of the catapult.
6,644 followers |

Stewart Butterfield

I'm trying my hardest!
6,350 followers |

thomas marban

startup creator and long-distance runner.
6,090 followers |

Charlie Leadbeater

Author We Think, co founder Participle, trustee Apps for Good, advisor Ministry of Stories, associate Demos, fellow Nesta, husband, father and Arsenal fan
5,964 followers |

James Gleick

author The Information Chaos
5,827 followers |

Nicholas Negroponte

founder, MIT Media Lab, One Laptop per Child
5,818 followers |

Xavier Damman

Cofounder/CEO of @storify. Free exchange of information has a positive impact on society. Go excite some electrons and change the world.
5,399 followers |

Jean-Louis Gassée

5,124 followers |

Jon Udell

http://jonudell.net/bio.html
4,491 followers |

Gian Fulgoni

comScore Chairman. Internet, Digital Media, Advertising, SEM, SEO, e-commerce, Information, Market Research, IRI, Sports, Porsche, Pittsburgh Steelers
4,249 followers |

Rob Glaser

Founder & Chairman, RealNetworks; Co-founder & Chairman, SocialEyes; President, RealNetworks Foundation; Trustee, Glaser Progress Foundation
4,207 followers |

Paul Allen

Entrepreneur. Founded Ancestry.com, 10 other companies. Thinking about going into politics, financial regulation. #rootstriker Blog at http://www.paulallen.net
4,204 followers |

Rich Skrenta

ceo blekko
3,290 followers |

nik cubrilovic

entrepreneur, hacker & writer
3,056 followers |

Alan Meckler

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of WebMediaBrands
3,017 followers |

alex hoye

CEO Latitude Digital Co-founder GoIndustry (listed), Faction Sports Yank in Europe rocking digital, rap &, yes, country http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexhoye
2,772 followers |

jerallaire

Founder and CEO of Brightcove. Former CTO Macromedia and Co-Founder Allaire
2,241 followers |

Marc Andreesen Blog

2,117 followers |

Gideon Gartner

Founder: Gartner, Inc.; GiGa Information Group (now Forrester); Soundview Technology. Blogging about the IT Advisory industry, middle-east politics, MIT, & more
1,883 followers |

Brewster Kahle

Digital Librarian http://openlibrary.org http://brewster.kahle.org http://archive.org @internetarchive @openlibrary
1,513 followers |

Shashi Seth

Sr. VP of Search for Yahoo. Formerly CRO for Cooliris, Head of Monetization YouTube, Product Lead for Google Search, Product at eBay etc.
512 followers |

Mark Makela

Philadelphia based photojournalist covering editorial and documentary. Father of two. Aloofian dreamer. Hydration aspirant. Rabid SF Giants/49ers fan. Ad hoc.
210 followers |

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