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Name Followers Following External
1 Gary Vaynerchuk – Family first! But after that, businessman. CEO of @vaynermedia. Host of #DailyVee & The #AskGaryVee Show. A dude who loves The Hustle @Winelibrary & the @NYJets 287,182 4,624
2 Tim O'Reilly – Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Watching the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold. 255,166 1,430
3 Bernie Sanders – Sen. Bernie Sanders is the longest serving independent in congressional history. 219,666 606
4 Marc Andreessen – 'Andreessen is the quintessential guy who is wrong with corporate America...Hard to hear, talks with a squeaky voice that only a dog can understand.'–Carl Icahn 206,266 3,514
5 Jason Fried – Founder & CEO at Basecamp. Co-author of Getting Real, Remote, and REWORK. http://basecamp.com 205,277 157
6 Biz Stone – Co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly. Dad, husband, author, and inventor. 203,193 356
7 Hillary Clinton – Wife, mom, grandma, women+kids advocate, FLOTUS, Senator, SecState, hair icon, pantsuit aficionado, 2016 presidential candidate. 201,703 132
8 Ev Williams – CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, thinker of thoughts 201,129 2,159
9 Larry Kim – CEO of MobileMonkey. Founder of WordStream. Top columnist @Inc ❤️ AdWords, Facebook Advertising, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Start-ups & Venture Capital ???? 190,191 5,113
10 Benjamin P. Hardy – Husband & father of 3. PhD candidate in Organizational Psychology. Over 300,000+ people receive my weekly newsletter at http://bit.ly/2BELOEi 183,210 1,859
11 Julie Zhuo – Product design VP @ Facebook. Lover of food, games, words. Find me @joulee or on juliezhuo.com 179,209 494
12 James Altucher – For some reason, I’ve turned myself inside out and all my guts have spilled onto my blog. One day I’ll run out of stuff but not yet. http://bit.ly/2blmiaG 162,721 5,172
13 M.G. Siegler – General Partner @ GV (née Google Ventures). In past lives I wrote at TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and ParisLemon. A man of few words. Except when writing. ???? 160,230 1,308
14 Chris Dixon – www.cdixon.org/about 147,342 2,511
15 Quincy Larson – Teacher at https://freeCodeCamp.org 144,273 1,261
16 Dave Pell – I write NextDraft, a quick and entertaining look at the day’s most fascinating news. 141,658 508
17 Sarah Cooper – Writer & Comedian 134,213 2,448
18 Nir Eyal – Author of “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products” and blogger at NirAndFar.com 132,260 1,999
19 Thomas Oppong – Writer. Thinker. Creator at thinkinginmodels.co. Curator at postanly.com, Columnist at Inc. Magazine. Featured at Business Insider, Quartz, CNBC, etc. 128,195 26,593
20 Kevin Rose – Builder. Meditator. Husband of @summertomato, father to Zelda & Toaster. 127,286 521
21 Wil Wheaton – Wizard. Time Lord. Fake geek girl. On a good day I am charming as fuck. 123,844 92
22 Anil Dash – CEO of Fog Creek Software, makers of @Glitch & Manuscript. Trying to make tech more ethical & humane. (Also an advisor to Medium.) More: http://anildash.com/ 122,088 2,568
23 Jon Westenberg – I write about tech, startups, diversity, queerness and people. 121,790 928
24 DHH – Creator of Ruby on Rails, Founder & CTO at Basecamp (formerly 37signals), NYT Best-selling author of REWORK and REMOTE, and Le Mans class-winning racing driver. 120,908 101
25 Seth Godin – Founder of altMBA, the Marketing Seminar etc. Daily blogger, teacher, speaker, 18 bestsellers as well... 114,609 1
26 Steven Levy – Editor of Backchannel. Also, I write stuff. 110,900 550
27 Umair Haque – vampire. 107,852 521
28 Mark Suster – 2x entrepreneur. Sold both companies (last to salesforce.com). Turned VC looking to invest in passionate entrepreneurs — I’m on Twitter at @msuster 106,984 1,102
29 Jason Calacanis – I angel invest in awesome startups... and try to build them myself. Be excellent to each other. 104,194 12,897
30 Jeff Goins – Writer. Speaker. Entrepreneur. Father of two & husband to Ashley. Author of 5 books, including Real Artists Don’t Starve (order: http://goinswriter.com/rads) 94,958 12,432
31 Tobias van Schneider – Self-taught Designer & Maker. Un-Employed. Founder of https://www.semplice.com/ Formerly Spotify — More About me: http://www.vanschneider.com 93,997 687
32 Dave McClure – 93,852 10,261
33 Darius Foroux – There's one question at the core of my work: How can we live a useful life that matters? Join my free weekly newsletter here: http://dariusforoux.com/ 91,143 3,114
34 John Rampton – Entrepreneur, Writer, Online Marketing Guy, Blogger, Husband and Full Time Computer Nerd. Founder @Calendar and @Due 88,610 112,100
35 Chris Sacca – I love @crystale. Sometimes on @ABCSharkTank. Early investor: @Twitter @Uber @Twilio @Instagram. Now working to give back. http://lowercasecapital.com/ 86,916 639
36 Reid Hoffman – Entrepreneur. Investor. Strategist. 85,949 364
37 Ben Horowitz – VC, Blogger, and Author of http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Ben-Horowitz/?isbn=9780062273208. 85,840 129
38 Hunter Walk – Funding exciting startups via @Homebrew 85,687 2,524
39 Robert Scoble – Helping get ready for the 2020’s: when self-driving cars, AI, cryptocurrencies, digital assistants, and XR (Augmented Reality AR / VR) will disrupt us. 84,981 26,370
40 Mike Monteiro – English is my second language. You were my first. 82,553 544
41 Paul Ford – Co-founder, http://postlight.com, a digital product studio in NYC. Also writer, Medium advisor, programmer. Any port in a storm, especially ports 80 and 443. 81,566 1,009
42 Steve Blank – Customer Development & Secret History, Teaching at Stanford, Berkeley and Columbia 80,303 7
43 Eric Ries – Trying to change how startups are built. 79,789 548
44 Addy Osmani – Eng. Manager at Google working on Chrome • Passionate about making the web fast. 73,805 870
45 Jeffrey Zeldman – studio.zeldman. Designing With Web Standards. A List Apart magazine. An Event Apart design conference. A Book Apart publications. The Big Web Show. zeldman.com 73,509 2,966
46 Om Malik – Partner at True Ventures. Founder of GigaOM. 71,058 1,206
47 Brad Feld – I'm a managing director at Foundry Group. I live in Boulder, Colorado, invest in software and Internet companies around the US, run marathons, and read a lot. 69,261 688
48 Eric Elliott – Compassionate entrepreneur on a mission to end homelessness. 67,370 6,911
49 Brian Chesky – Co-founder, CEO of Airbnb 63,743 177
50 Aaron Levie – Lead Magician (and CEO) at Box (@boxHQ); Huge ABBA fan. I don't fully endorse anything I say below. Go ☁ 61,419 332