1. Cosmic 140
The 140 most influential people on Twitter by #name #handle #category #influence #activity. Plus: when they started and what they first said
1/19/2010
Bill Gates
@BillGates | 1.4
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12/7/2009
Eric Schmidt
96 @ericschmidt | 0.2
CNN GPS with Fareed Zakaria on Nov 29th, starts around minute 17;
Fareed is a very good interviewer http://bit.ly/6GwGjn
6/26/2009
124 Kai-Fu Lee
@kaifulee | 0.9
Creating my new account
on tweeter
3/18/2009
Gary Hustwit
@gary_hustwit | 1.7
my first tweet! and already, limitations. i wanted "hustwitter" as my
username, no dice. and someone already has garyhustwit... what gives? 7/21/2009
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Marissa Mayer
@marissamayer | 0.6
Discovered the American Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore
2/26/2009 -- extremely cool in terms of art and its philosophies (http://www.avam.org/)
3/9/2009
1/22/2009
Google
Pentagram Design @google | 3.3
@pentagramdesign | 1.9 Erik Spiekermann 133
12/24/2008 I'm 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111
Signs of the Times: 121
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Signs fundraising event."/> DJ Stout and his team at Pentagram at the office with more on my @Jason_Pollock | 38 13
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Austin invite you to jo.. http://tinyurl.com/aoogtr list than i can hope to do I'm going to get food for a festive holiday dinner tonight. Check out
Fake Steve
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@fsjblog | 1.6
1/29/2009
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because Squirrel Boy is finished around here. I calle..
@AIGAdesign | 1.2 http://bit.ly/bPIx9
Apologies for the technical difficulties at 10/29/2007
www.aiga.org over the past few days… we are John Boardley
working on it and will have it resolved soon. 102 @ilovetypography | 9.6
just started twittering... 8/5/2008
Smashing Magazine
7/25/2009 @smashingmag | 13
New post on Smashing Magazine - Fervens: A Free
Todd McFarlane 123 35 Wordpress Theme, http://tinyurl.com/5epr7c
@Todd_McFarlane | 1
Tyrese what did you do? This is a new world to me. Can
anyone walk me through this twitter thing?
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11/27/2008
Yoko Ono
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@yokoono | 2.8
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7/13/2008
John Maeda 120
@johnmaeda | 1.7 134
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3/8/2008
2/22/2010 Luke Wroblewski
Dalai Lama @lukewdesign | 3.3
@DalaiLama | 2 At Moonshine. Getting beer pressure from all.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Los Angeles - 21 February 2010
http://bit.ly/cRGXyr
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128 11/4/2007 2/7/2008
58 7/22/2009
Jason Sweeney Clay Shirky
10/20/2009 Alain de Botton @sween | 4.5 104 @cshirky | 2.1
@alaindebotton | 0.8 Lying on my side, spooning a cat, hoping Noel doesn't knock out our power. Loving having an actual copy of my book on my
Fake AP Stylebook If you believe that those at the top merit their success you have to
8/5/2007
desk -- no more galleys!
@FakeAPStylebook | 6.1 believe that those at the bottom are worthy of their failures. Tim O’Reilly
All television show names should bear the 'Spanish @timoreilly | 11
exclamations.' ¡CSI: Miami! and ¡Taxicab Kim Stanley Robinson's session
Confessions!, but not ¡Jeopardy!! on capitalism vs. socialism in 12/21/2007
7/24/2008 science policy at Science Foo
3/17/2007 Lawrence Lessig
Deepak Chopra Camp at Google. 115
@lessig | 0.9
@DeepakChopra | 13 62 Wired waiting for joi
In Washington DC @WIRED | 4
Wired News: Top Stories: Dems 7/19/2008
3/4/2007
7/11/2007 Want Answers Gonzales
Tim Siedell 91
TED
http://tinyurl.com/2bkvqu
Marco Marcello Lupoi @badbanana | 11
54 @tedtalks | 0.9
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135 @mlupoi | 2.9 3/19/2007 TEDTalks feed! 107
Wondering where the time
3/3/2008 Watching UN POSTO AL SOLE swissmiss 113 126
went. Pondering sleep.
2/13/2009
10/22/2009
Paul Carr episodes from last week, getting @swissmiss | 2.9 12/20/2007
Mark Zuckerberg
@paulcarr | 13 ready for bed. Trying to get my ladies to twitter! 4/13/2007 NASA @finkd | 0.05 Tim Berners-Lee
Liveblogging (alljustwords.com) from GSP having just 109 @nasa | 9.2 @ooontz I knew you'd be under ditka @timberners_lee | 0.6
signed up to Twitter against my better judgement.
3/11/2007 36 Daisuke Tsuda 33 Apollo 17: Thirty-five years ago this week on Dec Ooops confusing user interfxce. And no
140 129 Doug Bowman 76
@tsuda | 13 http://tinyurl.com/2h2g26 phones on on stage with radiomikes.
@stop | 1.4 81
mellowing at the Driskill. my lord there's 3/10/2007
4/11/2007
3/16/2007 a lot of people at sxsw this year. Danny Sullivan
52 7/30/2008
5/24/2007
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3/9/2007 Jason Kottke @dannysullivan | 12 Dan Kogai
Adam Savage Warren Ellis @dankogai | 7.9
@donttrythis | 4.5 Jared M. Spool 130 @jkottke | 1.1
12/1/2006
working too late 112
Just started twitter.
@warrenellis | 8.5 @jmspool Finally caving to Twitter. Still no MySpace though.
About to test the shinymess of mud.
checking account validity Signing up for twitter! John Gruber 3/7/2007
10/9/2008 @gruber | 6.1 111 4/14/2007
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Stephen Fry Giving the boy a bath. Techmeme 92
12/12/2006
@Techmeme | 18 Richard MacManus
@stephenfry | 10 Jason Santa Maria @rww | 9.8 12/15/2007
16 OpenID - You can now use your
2/18/2010
Hello Twitterers. I'm About to fly to Africa for a new 46
117 @jasonsantamaria | 2.9 WordPress.com blog as an OpenID. 69
wondering why the heck someone else has the Loic Le Meur
project and will be tweeting whilst I'm filming. 12/12/2006 Trying to wake up. 'readwriteweb' twitter username. Damn squatters. @loic | 31
4/26/2007
20 Conan O’Brien (WordPress.com) http://tinyurl.com/2be4ur
[seesmic] le bon mot de passe - http://seesmic.com/9iruWPRk59
@ConanOBrien | 1.2 Paulo Coelho Jeffrey Zeldman
100
Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then @paulocoelho | 4.7 @zeldman | 7.1
11/20/2006
threw to commercial. Somebody help me. ..un regalo de un amigo y seguidor.. scratching 3/16/2007
http://www.paulocoelhoblog.com/ Robert Scoble Pete Cashmore
@scobleizer | 26
I'm going home to Half Moon Bay. @mashable | 21
9/3/2009 wondering why the heck someone else
Rachel Maddow 7/15/2006 5 has the 'readwriteweb' twitter
username. Damn squatters.
@maddow | 2.6