Top 50 Twitterers to Follow for Developers

(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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