Gov20

Gavin Newsom

49th Lt. Governor of California
1,290,537 followers |

Cory Booker

Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
1,116,972 followers |

Joe Trippi

Fmr Dean Campaign Mgr. Author of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Tweets important causes. Internet and Democracy. Social media and business.
1,031,954 followers |

Steve Case

Co-founder of AOL; now Chairman of Case Foundation and Revolution (Zipcar, LivingSocial, Exclusive Resorts, Everyday Health, Revolution Money, Miraval, etc)
482,445 followers |

Open Government

Official Twitter account of the White House Open Government Initiative
395,708 followers |

Alec Ross

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Senior Advisor for Innovation.
374,808 followers |

StateDept

Welcome to the official U.S. Department of State Twitter! Currently on Duty: Luke
236,502 followers |

Alex Howard

Gov 2.0 @Radar Correspondent, @OReillyMedia: alex@oreilly.com. Intrigued by technological change, taken with ideas, cooking, the outdoors, books, dogs and media
119,247 followers |

West Wing Report

Independent White House journalist. Paul's bio: 5 yrs Moscow, 5 yrs network TV, 5 yrs Wall St.; foreign correspondent, private investor. 53 countries & counting
102,530 followers |

Jay Rosen

I teach journalism at NYU, direct the Studio 20 program there, critique the press and try to grok new media. I don't do lifecasting but mindcasting on Twitter.
76,964 followers |

Claire McCaskill

63,653 followers |

The Joint Staff

News about the Joint Staff and services. Presence of external links, follows do not constitute endorsement from the Joint Staff or DoD.
62,598 followers |

Mitch Kapor

startup investor and advisor, social change advocate/activist
49,420 followers |

craignewmark

customer service rep & founder for craigslist & craigconnects
48,341 followers |

Mayor Sam Adams

Sam Adams is Mayor of Portland, Oregon USA http://www.linkedin.com/in/mayorsamadams http://www.facebook.com/PortlandMayorSamAdams
46,409 followers |

Don Tapscott

Author (most recent book Macrowikinomics), consulting company CEO, Hammond B3 player, striving to live a principled life of consequence.
33,721 followers |

Dr. Mark Drapeau

I'm technically part of the Microsoft Office of Civic Innovation, but mostly I wake up, talk to people, and enjoy cocktails (not necessarily in that order).
20,929 followers |

Ariel Waldman

creator of @ScienceHackDay SF + @Spacehack, a directory of ways to participate in space exploration. interaction designer + Institute For The Future researcher.
16,728 followers |

johnculberson

John Culberson: Proud father, happy husband. TX Congressman-Jeffersonian Republican. Let Texans Run Texas. Amateur astronomer
14,989 followers |

Steve Ressler

Social Network Connecting Gov't Community Passionate about public service innovation
10,002 followers |

Peter Corbett 

CEO of @iStrategyLabs. Co-Creator of @getgrandstand @dcweek and @dctechmeetup. Fmr TV exec. Interactive strategist and producer. Makin' it happen since 1980.
9,422 followers |

Micah Sifry

Editor, Writer, Strategist, Agitator. Co-founder Personal Democracy Forum; advisor to Sunlight Foundation
9,300 followers |

urbandata

Cross-Sector Urban Affairs: City Planning, Health Equity, Governance 2.0, Data & Community Indicators. Views are my own. Mark Abraham, Exec.Director @CTData
9,231 followers |

Alan W. Silberberg

Innovator. Philanthropic Capitalist. CEO. Founder @Gov20LA, Co-Founder Twain Group. Digital Diplomacy. Think Fast. Don't be afraid.
8,567 followers |

Brian Ahier

Passionate about healthcare, technology and government 2.0
8,551 followers |

Adrian Holovaty

Web developer, Python programmer, founder of EveryBlock.com, cocreator of the Django Web framework, poster of YouTube guitar videos.
8,347 followers |

Ellen Miller

Co-Founder and ED of Sunlight Foundation. Also founder of Center for Responsive Politics and Public Campaign. Money, power, influence and transparency expert.
8,087 followers |

Code for America

We recruit top web professionals to give a year of service building web 2.0 apps for city governments.
8,000 followers |

Andrew McLaughlin

Vice President, Tumblr. Lecturer, Stanford Law School. [And Ex-X: Ex-White House. Ex-Google. Ex-ICANN. Ex-Berkman. Ex-Civic Commons. Ex-vegetarian. Ex-Xbox.]
7,969 followers |

Jennifer Pahlka

Founder and ED of Code for America. Mom. Keeper of chickens.
7,171 followers |

Jeffrey Levy, EPA

EPA Director of Web Communications, Co-Chair of the Federal Web Managers Council, Gov't 2.0er.
6,887 followers |

Gov 2.0 Events

Twitter account for Gov 2.0 Summit and Gov 2.0 Expo. Tweets by @jaimeywb, @digiphile, @laurelatoreilly.
6,543 followers |

Clay Johnson

Confirmation Bias is the new H1N1. Read The Information Diet by me: http://amzn.to/infodiet
6,499 followers |

John Halamka

CIO of BIDMC, Harvard Medical School
6,487 followers |

United Republic

We fight the corrupting influence of money in politics.
6,282 followers |

Sunlight Network

6,211 followers |

Bob Gourley

A CTO. Also find me @CTOvision and @CTOlist. National Security, Cyber Security, Enterprise IT and tech fun are key topics of interest.
5,950 followers |

GovFresh

Gov 2.0, open gov news, guides, TV, tech, people. Open air government. (@lukefretwell)
5,713 followers |

mysociety

We build civic and community websites, like FixMyStreet, TheyWorkForYou, WhatDoTheyKnow, WriteToThem - and plenty more.
5,708 followers |

Andrew Rasiej

Political and Social Entrepreneur, Professional Doer. Founder of Personal Democracy Media, Senior Advisor to the Sunlight Foundation, Chairman of NY TechMeetup
5,515 followers |

David Eaves

Connecting: public service renewal, public policy, open-source, open data & government, negotiation, collaboration, life, fun and rockband drumming
5,489 followers |

Carl Malamud

Open Source America's Operating System. It's not just a good idea, it's the law.
5,480 followers |

W. David Stephenson

author: Data Dynamite http://amzn.to/ly9Ng9 Gov/Ent.2-3.0 strategist/theorist.Homeland sec.&disaster response.Liberal.Twitter user #262 BoSox!
4,797 followers |

Lewis Shepherd

Live in Virginia, work in DC and Redmond, play on the web. Director of Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments.
4,556 followers |

Jake Brewer

Smarter Government, visual story-telling, and the business of making good things (actually) happen.
4,347 followers |

Andrew Wilson

Do. Learn. Improve. Repeat. Note: These are my views and my voice alone - no broader implications implied
4,015 followers |

ccoletta

Creative Placemaking*Cities*Future*Talent*Design* Chicago*Politics*Art
4,000 followers |

Laurel Ruma

Director of Talent (speaker and author relations) at O'Reilly Media. Homebrewer, foodie, farmer in the city.
3,943 followers |

Susan Crawford

professor and advocate; future book, #thebigsqueeze, explains crisis in American communications; also focused on use of tech by govt.
3,937 followers |

noel hidalgo, frsa

Asoc. Director of Engagement Technologies for @WEF USA; co-founder of @NuAMS; member #BikeNYC, #TN2020 & @RSAorg; txt msg noneck to 41411 for eCard
3,924 followers |

Andrew Hoppin

former New York State Senate CIO; social entrepreneur; grassroots organizer; planetary geologist
3,821 followers |

Votizen

Discover which of your friends are voters, and campaign with them to elect candidates you believe in.
3,759 followers |

Craig McKinley

General Craig McKinley is the 26th Chief of the National Guard Bureau.
3,614 followers |

Red Hat Government

Official updates from Red Hat's Government Team related to federal, state, and local government, K-12 education, and higher education IT markets.
3,532 followers |

Steve Lunceford

Communications strategist working for @Deloitte. Creator of GovTwit.com; tweets don't represent employer.
3,479 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
3,394 followers |

U.S. Mayors

The United States Conference of Mayors
3,387 followers |

ArmyCIOG6

The U.S. Army's Chief Information Officer/G-6. Following or Retweeting does not = endorsement
3,090 followers |

brianbehlendorf

CTO at the World Economic Forum. Board member at the Mozilla Foundation, CollabNet, & Benetech. Former advisor to HHS & White House. Open technology maven.
2,950 followers |

Ian Bicking

2,943 followers |

ChangeCamp Canada

Canadians re-imagining government and citizenship in the age of participation. This account tended by @remarkk
2,907 followers |

SeeClickFix

I let you document non-emergency issues to the world, so that they can be fixed. Improving your community is just a click away!
2,510 followers |

NoelDickover

Work on #TechCamp for eDiplomacy at the State Dept. Co-founded CrisisCommons. #Gov20, #ICT4D, #Development, Also carves pumpkins.
2,420 followers |

Bev Godwin

Public Servant. Federal Citizen Info Center @ GSA. All tweets are my personal views, not that of any current or former employer.
2,419 followers |

GLinsights

top gov't news
2,260 followers |

Mary Davie

Career civil servant, Hokie, Cyclist, pushing intersection of web2.0 & federal acquisition; President of ACT www.actgov.org
2,222 followers |

Dan Munz

Nice Jewish boy who watches C-SPAN to relax. Husband of @MunzyJ, public servant, aspiring geek. All opinions = mine alone.
2,128 followers |

NY Senate Tech Team

We're the Tech department of the @NYSenate
2,002 followers |

John Wonderlich

sunlight foundation policy director
1,969 followers |

Tom Lee

Director of Sunlight Labs
1,764 followers |

rewiredstate

We run hack days
1,685 followers |

Tony Webster

Designer / developer / data nerd #mhealth #opendata #gov20
1,602 followers |

Kevin Curry

I organize things. Code for America, Bridgeborn, CityCamp, Hokies, King's Grant Community League, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, HRVA
1,500 followers |

Mike Mathieu

Civic software entrepreneur, founder of Front Seat, Walk Score. Working on New Media Ventures, KUOW, Seattle Center Next50, Debate 2.0.
1,485 followers |

Philip Ashlock

I craft civic technology and coordinate local level open governance initiatives at OpenPlans.org. My current focus is Open311.org and CivicCommons.org
1,470 followers |

Dustin Haisler

Director of Government Innovation for Spigit, Disruptive Innovator, Dad, Husband, Christ-follower
1,428 followers |

OCTO Labs

Research and Development group in Office of the CTO, DC Government - Innovation, Open Source, Data Transparency, Government 2.0
1,366 followers |

Civic Commons

Sharing technology for the public good.
1,285 followers |

Sally Lieber

Geek + Wonk
1,276 followers |

TFCN

The Federal Contractor Network
1,247 followers |

Dmitry Kachaev

Human at http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/ ; ex-Gov 2.0 Hero; hacking on open data and arduino; climbing and longboarding for fun; (My favorites are just bookmarks)
1,090 followers |

John Scott

defense, technology transparency, military, open source software, OSS
975 followers |

Jason Miller

Federal News Radio executive editor
957 followers |

GovITwiki

GovITwiki Site Manager, gather IT data and statistics, monitor of government budgets and procurement efforts. Accuracy is a must. servicedesk@govitwiki.com
956 followers |

Brett horvath

Designer, Entrepreneur, Teacher, Global Development, Government 2.0, Future of Learning
827 followers |

sean mccormack

Former State Dept Spokesguy
825 followers |

maureenjennings

media relations manager o'reilly conferences
792 followers |

Nigel Jacob

Trying to make Boston the City of the Future
759 followers |

Melody Hildebrandt

formerly wargames, now software
732 followers |

STAR_TIDES

STAR-TIDES (Transformative Innovation for Development and Emergency Support) international research project
651 followers |

Alissa Black

550 followers |

LittleSis

An involuntary facebook of powerful Americans, collaboratively edited by people like you
520 followers |

Sunlightlabs API

information about the sunlightlabs API
469 followers |

Capitol Tweets

From the Sunlight Foundation. Following Members of Congress who use Twitter.
347 followers |

ltrudeau

267 followers |

katie jacobs stanton

Howdy folks! I no longer tweet here. Come and follow me @KatieS
224 followers |

linwells

192 followers |

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