12/19/2008
50 Cent
@50cent | 1.1
is in Turkey
1/30/2008
Alan Murray
@alansmurray | 5.6
I'm not getting my updates
3/27/2009
Alyssa Milano
@alyssa_milano | 23
this is my official twitter!
1/16/2009
Ashton Kutcher
@aplusk | 12
dropping my first tweet
5/5/2009
Michael Arrington
@arrington | 12
woohoo. A Twitter account of my very own, unbound by
the corporate policy chains of TechCrunch. Freedom!
3/21/2006
Biz Stone
@biz | 2.6
just setting up my twttr
2/8/2007
Chris Pirillo
@chrispirillo | 13
I've been twitterpated?
1/2/2007
CNN Breaking News
@cnnbrk
testing
4/11/2007
Dan Kogai
@dankogai | 7.9
Just started twitter.
3/10/2007
Danny Sullivan
@dannysullivan | 12
working too late
7/24/2008
Deepak Chopra
@DeepakChopra | 13
In Washington DC
7/30/2008
Adam Savage
@donttrythis | 4.5
About to test the shinymess of mud.
12/7/2009
Eric Schmidt
@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
3/21/2006
Evan Williams
@ev | 3.5
just setting up my twttr
2/13/2009
Mark Zuckerberg
@finkd | 0.05
@ooontz I knew you'd be under ditka
3/12/2007
Fred Wilson
@fredwilson | 5.6
trying twitter
12/1/2006
John Gruber
@gruber | 6.1
Giving the boy a bath.
8/27/2007
Guy Kawasaki
@GuyKawasaki | 51
Just created a better Twitter name
11/17/2009
Hiroshi Mikitani
@hmikitani | 6.8
新しい団体の打ち合わせをしています
3/9/2009
Pentagram Design
@pentagramdesign | 1.9
Signs of the Times:
Signs fundraising event."/> DJ Stout and his team at Pentagram
Austin invite you to jo.. http://tinyurl.com/aoogtr
10/29/2007
John Boardley
@ilovetypography | 9.6
just started twittering...
3/21/2006
Jack Dorsey
@jack | 4.8
just setting up my twttr
12/12/2006
Jason Santa Maria
@jasonsantamaria | 2.9
Trying to wake up.
3/9/2007
Jared M. Spool
@jmspool
Signing up for twitter!
7/13/2008
John Maeda
@johnmaeda | 1.7
working
1/24/2007
Joi Ito
@Joi | 3.9
Starting Twitter...
12/19/2006
Jeremiah Owyang
@jowyang | 17
Surfing the web
1/18/2007
Kevin Rose
@kevinrose | 3.6
Drinking tea @ work
7/19/2009
Kohmi Hirose
@kohmi | 41
twitter初挑戦中です。
3/16/2007
Jason Kottke
@jkottke | 1.1
Finally caving to Twitter. Still no MySpace though.
7/18/2006
Scott Beale
@laughingsquid | 8.2
tweeking twtta
12/21/2007
Lawrence Lessig
@lessig | 0.9
waiting for joi
12/15/2007
Loic Le Meur
@loic | 31
[seesmic] le bon mot de passe - http://seesmic.com/9iruWPRk59
3/8/2008
Luke Wroblewski
@lukewdesign | 3.3
At Moonshine. Getting beer pressure from all.
3/15/2007
Major Nelson
@majornelson | 9.2
Wondering why people want to know what I am doing.
12/24/2009
Masayoshi Son
@masason | 6
"実名で今日からつぶやく事にしました。
2009年のクリスマスイブ。
もうすぐ24時です。"
1/26/2009
Demi Moore
mrskutcher | 8.8
trying to figure this twitter deal out!
7/15/2006
Om Malik
@om | 7.8
Looking 4 food
6/18/2009
Priyanka Chopra
priyankachopra | 10
Testing... 123...
1/28/2009
Rainn Wilson
@rainnwilson | 7.5
Rainn Wilson. Reporting for duty.
3/5/2007
Reddit
@reddit
traveling through time
11/20/2006
Robert Scoble
@scobleizer | 26
I'm going home to Half Moon Bay.
1/23/2009
John McCain
@SenJohnMcCain | 2.5
I am working in my office on Capitol Hill today.
3/17/2009
Shashi Tharoor
@ShashiTharoor | 8.8
In Kerala.
10/9/2007
Mario Sixtus
@sixtus | 6.6
Testing Twitter... (check, one, two, check, beeeeeep)
12/12/2008
Soulja Boy Tell 'Em
@souljaboytellem | 26
In D.C. on promo tour
11/4/2007
Jason Sweeney
@sween | 4.5
Lying on my side, spooning a cat, hoping Noel doesn't knock out our power.
3/19/2007
Tina Roth Eisenberg
@swissmiss | 2.9
Trying to get my ladies to twitter!
6/5/2009
Takafumi Horie
@takapon_jp | 11
ついったーはじめました。昼飯なんにしようか・・・
12/6/2008
Taylor Swift
@taylorswift13 | 1.1
apologizing to a very needy cat for being gone so long.
3/7/2007
TechCrunch
@TechCrunch | 14
Blogging!
7/19/2008
TED
@tedtalks | 0.9
TEDTalks feed!
11/18/2008
Shaquille O’Neal
@THE_REAL_SHAQ | 5.6
this is the real SHAQUILLE O'NEAL
8/19/2008
Trent Reznor
0.9 | @trent_reznor
hanging on the bus
4/13/2007
Daisuke Tsuda
@tsuda | 13
ようやく使い方がわかった!
11/21/2006
VeronicaBelmont
@Veronica | 4.7
Gah! Will today never end?!
3/14/2007
Wil Wheaton
@wilw | 7.9
Trying to figure out if I signed up with 'wilwheaton' to prevent
some jerk from stealing it, or if some jerk already stole it.
12/1/2008
Jonathan Ross
@Wossy | 22
Getting to know twitter
11/27/2008
Yoko Ono
@yokoono | 2.8
dancing
12/12/2006
Jeffrey Zeldman
@zeldman | 7.1
scratching
5/24/2007
Warren Ellis
@warrenellis | 8.5
checking account validity
11/6/2008
Al Gore
@algore | 0.3
Just signed up for Twitter. Please check out
http://www.algore.com/ and http://www.repoweramerica.org/.
8/12/2008
Starbucks Coffee
@Starbucks | 8
Welcome to Starbucks Twitter land!
1/23/2008
Arnold Schwarzenegger
@Schwarzenegger | 1
Going to take part in a Q & A at the CA Newspaper Publishers Assn.
Gov. Affairs Day in Sacramento at 1:30pm. Webcast at
http://gov.ca.gov.
3/27/2008
Lady Gaga
@ladygaga | 0.4
op rehearsing for my video just dance and am now at wmc to perform
at the Armani and nervous records party. But I am no nervous record! ...
4/29/2007
Barack Obama
@BarackObama | 0.6
"Thinking we're only one signature
away from ending the war in Iraq.
Learn more at http://www.barackobama.com"
12/23/2008
Michael Jordan
@michaeljordan | 0.3
drinking oj and mountaindew
1/9/2009
Karl Rove
@KarlRove | 4.3
Check out my Op-Ed in the Wall Street
Journal...http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1231372205
50562585.html
1/30/2009
John Mayer
@johncmayer | 7.5
Finding The Perfect Fuzz Sound. If You do it right, it
sounds like breath swirling around in a saxophone. Cool.
1/28/2009
Mariah Carey
@MariahCarey | 1.7
Welcome to Mariah’s Official Twitter Page!
Bookmark http://twitter.com/MariahHBF and feel
free to write back to @MariahHBF about Miss M!
3/21/2009
Kim Kardashian
@KimKardashian | 9.7
Hey guys it's Kim Kardashian! I finally signed up for Twitter!
There are a few fakes so just know this is the real me!!!
4/29/2008
MC Hammer
@MCHammer | 12
boring night...my controller must have been broken...every channel had
some preacher name Rev. Wright..I think he's running for President??
9/22/2008
Britney Spears
@britneyspears | 0.7
Welcome to Britney Spears' Twitter! Follow the latest in Britney
news and get updates straight from Britney and her entourage.
10/9/2008
Stephen Fry
@stephenfry | 10
Hello Twitterers. I'm About to fly to Africa for a new
project and will be tweeting whilst I'm filming.
5/23/2007
Sascha Lobo
@saschalobo | 4
Prokrastinieren.
2/26/2009
Google
@google | 3.3
I'm 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111
00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010
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?
1/29/2009
AIGA
@AIGAdesign | 1.2
Apologies for the technical difficulties at
www.aiga.org over the past few days… we are
working on it and will have it resolved soon.
7/25/2009
Todd McFarlane
@Todd_McFarlane | 1
Tyrese what did you do? This is a new world to me. Can
anyone walk me through this twitter thing?
8/3/2009
Justin
@shitmydadsays | 0.5
"I didn't live to be 73 years old so I could eat kale.
Don't fix me your breakfast and pretend you're fixing mine."
10/20/2009
Fake AP Stylebook
@FakeAPStylebook | 6.1
All television show names should bear the 'Spanish
exclamations.' ¡CSI: Miami! and ¡Taxicab
Confessions!, but not ¡Jeopardy!!
4/28/2009
Jack Welch
@jack_welch | 1.7
So here I go. @suzywelch and our kids have browbeaten
me into 2009. Hello Twitter world! Yikes.
7/11/2007
Marco Marcello Lupoi
@mlupoi | 2.9
Watching UN POSTO AL SOLE
episodes from last week, getting
ready for bed.
1/13/2009
Coldplay
@coldplay | 1.4
The official Coldplay twitter (with the official Coldplay
twitter url) is go. Welcome one and all. Anchorman
1/6/2009
Sean Combs
@iamdiddy | 12
ON SET...GETTING READY TO FLY HOME
FOR THE NOTORIOUS PREMIERE!!
2/25/2009
Tony Hawk
@tonyhawk | 7
woke up with Kady, watching Yo Gabba Gabba, trying to
get over this strange Fijian flu I picked up so I can skate.
5/22/2008
Real Madrid
@realmadrid | 3.7
Celebración Liga 07/08. Fotos Exclusivas
http://fon.gs/celebracion-liga
4/17/2009
Oprah Winfrey
@Oprah | 0.3
HI TWITTERS . THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING
REALLY 21st CENTURY.
8/5/2008
Smashing Magazine
@smashingmag | 13
New post on Smashing Magazine - Fervens: A Free
Wordpress Theme, http://tinyurl.com/5epr7c
10/22/2009
Tim Berners-Lee
@timberners_lee | 0.6
Ooops confusing user interfxce. And no
phones on on stage with radiomikes.
12/20/2007
NASA
@nasa | 9.2
Apollo 17: Thirty-five years ago this week on Dec
http://tinyurl.com/2h2g26
2/7/2008
Clay Shirky
@cshirky | 2.1
Loving having an actual copy of my book on my
desk -- no more galleys!
7/21/2009
Marissa Mayer
@marissamayer | 0.6
Discovered the American Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore
-- extremely cool in terms of art and its philosophies (http://www.avam.org/)
3/4/2008
The Onion
@TheOnion | 5.7
The Onion reluctantly expands its Inter-net
presence via Face-book. Damn the lot of
you! http://urltea.com/2u7n
7/15/2006
Jason Calacanis
@Jason | 12
Listening to the old tycho album.
3/11/2007
Doug Bowman
@stop | 1.4
mellowing at the Driskill. my lord there's
a lot of people at sxsw this year.
3/17/2007
Wired
@WIRED | 4
Wired News: Top Stories: Dems
Want Answers Gonzales
http://tinyurl.com/2bkvqu
10/24/2006
Chris Brogan
@chrisbrogan | 51
I'm writing content for Video on the
Net and chatting with Julien Smith.
3/4/2007
Tim Siedell
@badbanana | 11
Wondering where the time
went. Pondering sleep.
8/5/2007
Tim O’Reilly
@timoreilly | 11
Kim Stanley Robinson's session on
capitalism vs. socialism in science policy at
Science Foo Camp at Google.
3/7/2007
Techmeme
@Techmeme | 18
OpenID - You can now use your
WordPress.com blog as an OpenID.
(WordPress.com) http://tinyurl.com/2be4ur
4/14/2007
Richard MacManus
@rww | 9.8
wondering why the heck someone else has the
'readwriteweb' twitter username. Damn squatters.
3/16/2007
Pete Cashmore
@mashable | 21
Del.icio.us Tag Descriptions - Very Meta
( http://tinyurl.com/ypttw4 )
8/2/2007
Guardian Tech
@guardiantech | 15
[news] Electronic voting not safe warns election watchdog:
Trials designed to increase turnou.. http://tinyurl.com/3b8ol3
8/7/2008
Digg
@digg_2000 | 11
"John McCain Has 61 Major Flip-Flops: Here Are All of Them!" - http://tinyurl.com/5gmjgo
3/5/2007
The New York Times
@nytimes | 39
Without Health Benefits, a Good Life
Turns Fragile http://shurl.org/bVmbZ
3/20/2007
Reuters Top News
@Reuters
Russia hunts missing after mine blast kills 106
http://tinyurl.com/2bd49t
3/18/2007
Fox News
@foxnews | 131
NATIONAL: Confederate Flag Hanging From Noose
Stays on Display http://tinyurl.com/257kuo
7/11/2007
BBC Click
@BBCClick | 0.8
BBC Click is looking 4 Twitter users. if available on the 17July for
an intw and in San Francisco, email click@bbc.co.uk 4 more info!
5/3/2007
NPR Politics
@nprpolitics | 11
No religion with your stamps
http://tinyurl.com/ytnv9v
3/8/2008
Tony Hsieh
@zappos | 2.8
Hello zappos people at SXSW. Please twitter
"follow zappos" to follow me. -Tony
5/6/2008
Drudge Report
@Drudge_Report | 39
AP: More than 3.5 million new voters...
http://tinyurl.com/4zdhk8
4/24/2008
Huffington Post
@huffingtonpost | 45
Toby Barlow: It doesn't actually take a genius to notice the sun does it?
http://tinyurl.com/68soxe
7/10/2009
Fake Steve
@fsjblog | 1.6
Dear Eric: You're dead to me: Tag him and bag him, boys,
because Squirrel Boy is finished around here. I calle..
http://bit.ly/bPIx9
6/25/2008
Anderson Cooper
@andersoncooper | 13
Erica’s News Note: What a long strange trip
http://tinyurl.com/67f3ef
12/30/2008
MLB
@mlb | 26
hope you have fun with our new Official MLBlogs
Twitter page! Use it to post tweets and I suggest
http://is.gd for short URLs. Go MLBlogs!
6/23/2009
Rubens Barrichello
@rubarrichello | 24
oi gente...agora esse eh meu twitter oficial...mandarei
noticias...um forte abraco.Rubinho
10/15/2008
Lance Armstrong
@lancearmstrong | 8.6
Just finished a speech here in Las Vegas for a
company called Teradata. 3000 folks in the audience
on an early vegas am. Bout to ride now!
4/30/2007
Natalie
@natalie_mu | 19
ダウンタウンの松本人志が監督・主演を務める話題の映画「大日
本人」の音楽をTOWA TEIが担当していることが明らかになった。
http://natalie.mu/news/show/id/1564
2/13/2007
Joshua Allen
@fireland | 0.6
When I go into the office bathroom and someone is going #2
while I only have to go #1 ... I feel superior
4/26/2007
Paulo Coelho
@paulocoelho | 4.7
..un regalo de un amigo y seguidor..
http://www.paulocoelhoblog.com/
3/3/2008
Paul Carr
@paulcarr | 13
Liveblogging (alljustwords.com) from GSP having just
signed up to Twitter against my better judgement.
12/24/2008
Jason Pollock
@Jason_Pollock | 38
I'm going to get food for a festive holiday dinner tonight. Check out
the trailer for my film at... http://www.TheYoungestCandidate.com
2/22/2010
Dalai Lama
@DalaiLama | 2
His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Los Angeles - 21 February 2010
http://bit.ly/cRGXyr
7/22/2009
Alain de Botton
@alaindebotton | 0.8
If you believe that those at the top merit their
success you have to believe that those at the
bottom are worthy of their failures.
1/22/2009
Perez Hilton
@PerezHilton | 48
Hi! This is the real me bitches. I'm not on MySpace or
Facebook but I decided to start Twittering. Yee Haw!
1/19/2010
Bill Gates
@BillGates | 1.4
"Hello World." Hard at work on my
foundation letter - publishing on 1/25.
8/4/2008
The Economist
@TheEconomist | 4
Green.view: Green genes: The shameful destruction of a crop
trialALMOST ten years ago, a jury acquit.. http://tinyurl.com/5qxdyd
9/3/2009
Rachel Maddow
@maddow | 2.6
Got nothing done today. Have spent the entire
day obsessed with this (pdf): http://is.gd/2QNIw
2/18/2010
Conan O’Brien
@ConanOBrien | 1.2
Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then
threw to commercial. Somebody help me.
3/10/2009
Ellen DeGeneres
@TheEllenShow | 4.3
Tis my first twitt-er. Or tweet? Twit? Or tweet?
"Twit or tweet everybody." Is this anything?
1/22/2009
Erik Spiekermann
@espiekermann | 3.3
at the office with more on my
list than i can hope to do
7/2/2007
JetBlue Airways
@JetBlue | 2.3
Woo-hoo! I am the official airline of
Springfield! Aye carumba!
5/7/2008
Kevin Smith
@ThatKevinSmith | 11
Showing my flick to some fresh eyes,
backing up laptop.
7/16/2006
Dave McClure
@davemcclure | 7.5
Dinner in san mateo.
(shabu shabu)
3/17/2009
Paris Hilton
@ParisHilton | 11
in Vegas at the Hard
Rock with my Prince...
4/1/2007
Wall Street Journal
@wsj | 15
Sega, Nintendo to Make Olympics-Themed Game
http://tinyurl.com/3xkz6l
5/19/2008
Jay Rosen
@jayrosen_nyu | 17
Setting up my Twitter
account to see if I like it.
7/17/2009
Kazuyo Katsuma
@kazuyo_k | 39
いま、ニューヨークのホテルにいます。ワシントン
からの飛行機が2時間遅れて、疲れました。
6/26/2009
Kai-Fu Lee
@kaifulee | 0.9
Creating my new account
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Cosmic 140Cosmic 140
The 140 most influential Twitter users, their #name
#handle #category #influence #activity, when they
first started and what they first said
The 140 most influential Twitter users, their #name
#handle #category #influence #activity, when they
first started and what they first said
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