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Top 50 Twitterers to Follow for Developers

4 December 2008
Posted in Top Lists

(Note: this is an old list. The newer version can be found here.)

I'm very, very busy researching blogs for a new edition of the Top 100 Blogs for Developers. (BTW, you can still cast your votes… see my previous post.) However, I suddenly got the urge to find out the Twitter names of well-known authors of software development blogs and books. So, I did a little side-research.

Don't ask me why. It just felt good, I suppose.

Well, here's the list I came up with. It's definately not complete! I probably missed a number of very important people (with very obscure or hard-to-find Twitter names). Please don't blame me. Just add any celebrities I missed to the comments section of this post, so we can all choose to follow them!

Oh, and if you feel like it, why don't follow me as well?

# Author Url Followers
1 Jeff Atwood http://twitter.com/codinghorror 6560
2 Scott Hanselman http://twitter.com/shanselman 5161
3 Kathy Sierra http://twitter.com/kathysierra 5002
4 Michael Lopp http://twitter.com/rands 4392
5 Jason Fried http://twitter.com/jasonfried 4212
6 Steven Frank http://twitter.com/stevenf 2467
7 Jared Spool http://twitter.com/jmspool 2087
8 Dave Thomas http://twitter.com/pragdave 1862
9 Joshua Porter http://twitter.com/bokardo 1777
10 Dare Obasanjo http://twitter.com/carnage4life 1211
11 Jon Udell http://twitter.com/judell 1153
12 Jim Weirich http://twitter.com/jimweirich 847
13 Jeremy Miller http://twitter.com/jeremydmiller 723
14 Ed Yourdon http://twitter.com/yourdon 724
15 Michael Feathers http://twitter.com/mfeathers 691
16 Jeffrey Palermo
http://twitter.com/jeffreypalermo		 690
17 Jim Benson http://twitter.com/ourfounder 673
18 Steven Harman http://twitter.com/stevenharman 670
19 Robert C. Martin
http://twitter.com/unclebobmartin		 593
20 Kevin Dente http://twitter.com/kevindente 537
21 Ted Neward http://twitter.com/tedneward 506
22 Matt Raible http://twitter.com/mraible 495
23 Brian Marick http://twitter.com/marick 469
24 Omar Shanine http://twitter.com/omarshahine 450
25 Scott Rosenberg http://twitter.com/scottros 443
26 Joel Spolsky http://twitter.com/spolsky 433
27 Ben Simo http://twitter.com/qualityfrog 407
28 Des Traynor http://twitter.com/destraynor 359
29 Eric Burke http://twitter.com/burke_eric 356
30 Rick Skrenta http://twitter.com/skrenta 339
31 Alex Miller http://twitter.com/puredanger 322
32 Neal Ford http://twitter.com/neal4d 321
33 Leon Bambrick http://twitter.com/secretgeek 307
34 Ron Jeffries http://twitter.com/ronjeffries 301
35 Venkat Subramaniam http://twitter.com/venkat_s 278
36 Dave Hoover http://twitter.com/redsquirrel 274
37 Kent Beck http://twitter.com/kentbeck 241
38 Bret Pettichord http://twitter.com/bpettichord 226
39 Mike Cottmeyer http://twitter.com/mcottmeyer 222
40 Elisabeth Hendrickson http://twitter.com/testobsessed 213
41 Max Pool http://twitter.com/mpool 208
42 Chris Spagnuolo http://twitter.com/cspag 205
43 Debasish Ghosh http://twitter.com/debasishg 194
44 Mike Vizdos http://twitter.com/mvizdos 177
45 Jeff Sutherland
http://twitter.com/jeffsutherland		 176
46 J.B. Rainsberger http://twitter.com/jbrains 163
(Yes, this would be my place,
if I were a celebrity…)		 http://twitter.com/jurgenappelo
154
47 David Anderson http://twitter.com/agilemanager 118
48 Esther Derby http://twitter.com/estherderby 107
49 Michael Nygard http://twitter.com/mtnygard 87
50 Martin Fowler http://twitter.com/martinfowler 47

Oh, and did I already point out that you can follow me as well?
No worries, just checking…

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