101+ SharePoint People to Follow on Twitter

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Joel Oleson

<Updated 12/16 12:30PM Version 1.1> – I’ve been wanting to compile a list of 100 SharePoint People to follow on Twitter and was hoping to have a statistical way of providing you the best or most influential SharePoint twitter people. Instead, I’ll give you my list and tell you that I think this represents a good 80% of the core stuff, while there is likely a bunch I’m missing I hope to extend the list and even have a scientific method of compiling a list in the future. Note I did purposely leave off people who have left SharePoint (sorry LLiu), and those who haven’t tweeted in months or only tweeted a couple of times (with the exception of a couple of Asian SharePoint MVPs at the bottom of the list as Asia isn’t well represented). I also gave preferential treatment to those who actually had pictures. I think this list is a good mix of community, strong SharePoint Twitter people, and MVPs who have tried to contribute to SharePoint on Twitter.

Why Twitter? I answered this question in a previous blog in how I see business value in Twitter and another on 10 steps to successful microblogging (with twitter and friendfeed, etc…). You can even get a video view into what my tweetdeck looks like in a recent podcast having fun with SharePoint in Tweetdeck.

In my attempts at finding an easy solution to help us sort out the more influential tweeters, I found some interesting tools such as http://www.Tweetstats.com, Twitter Grader and Twinflluence (which has real promise with a rich API) TwitterCounter is a nice one for your blog, and TweetBurner tracks the links you share. I’m now using http://www.twitterless.com/joeloleson but my experience is early in this beta.

One I came past does show a simple counter for most followed like a virtual league TwitterLeague.com after I make sure I have those that care to be in this list, I can do a quick pass with that app to do more of a stack rank. Shown above on the left. Followers alone don’t show the power of influence like twinfluence shows, but # of followers does represent a significant following and in our field can show the relative influence of a microblogger.

<updated> If you are looking for a rank order of SharePoint Community People by Rank from Twitterleague.com (no big buckets or service).

In no particular order, here are some SharePoint People on Twitter that are great to follow. (Note this is based on my experience on Twitter.)

gannotti – Mike Gannotti – King of Community, restless blogger and podcaster
andrewconnell – Andrew Connell one of our beloved and Top SharePoint Bloggers. He Teaches, he speaks and he brings the community together.
joeloleson – hey that’s Me! – Why #3? Just Because
SPDevWiki / jthake – Jeremy Thake One of the SharePoint Twitter Leaders. I think I see Jeremy out there and responding more than anyone.
lespaulrob – SharePoint MVP – also of SharePoint Pod Show!
21apps – Andrew Woodward SharePoint MVP
bfox11b – Bob Fox! Need I say more? NY, NJ User Groups, ISPA Man. Fountain of Knowledge…
themit – Renaud Comte SharePoint MVP
jmedero – SharePoint MVP
chandimak – SharePoint MVP – One of the kings of SharePoint Community South of the Equator
eshupps – Eric Shupps – SharePoint MVP – The SharePoint Cowboy
harbars – Spence Harbar (Edinburg) is the true SharePoint Architect. The IT guy at heart that can make a Dev look like a beginner.
toddkitta – Todd Kitta SharePoint Dev
nickswan – SharePoint Nick – SharePoint MVP – SharePoint Pod Show!
ToddKlindt – SharePoint IT MVP
Chris_Hougardy
woodywindy Woody Windischman
pagalvin – Paul Galvin SharePoint MVP
danmc Daniel McPherson – Awesome SharePoint Insights. Awesome Blogger.
jdattis J. Dan Attis
rickyspears – SharePoint Author and Solutions Architect
bsimser – Bil Simser
seanodmvp – Sean O’Driscoll
JDWade – JD was really helpful when I first got on Twitter.
amandamurphy – SharePoint Design Queen.
mikefitz – Key SharePoint Evangelist (Looks great in a Kilt)
sharepointdev Randall Isenhour– Our MSDN SDK SharePoint Dev Tech writing Lead
emilysc – Emily Schroeder Our TechNet SharePoint Team Connection
spdustin – Dustin Miller – SharePoint MVP – Owner, Instructor, Speaker SharePoint Experts
amirmehrani – Amir Mehrani
meetdux – Our new SharePoint Project Management Guru
DavidWalker – David Walker
pjcov – Penny Coventry – Great whitepapers and courseware
robinmeure – Great insights. Great Consultant. Cool blog too. Amsterdam
mysharepoint – Michael Greth – SharePoint MVP Germany
owenallen – Microsoft SharePoint Team, ISV man. Great guy to follow.
MossLover – SharePoint community advocate and blogger
SharePointMag/ arnonel – Arno Nel SharePoint MVP
jantielens – Jan Tielens – SharePoint MVP, Belgium
brendonschwartz – SharePoint MVP
natalyvo – Natalya – SharePoint Squirrel Blogger, SharePoint MVP
ShanesCows – Shane Young – SharePoint IT MVP (let’s help him figure this out!)
sharepointbuzz/kkhipple – Kanwal has been doing the SharePoint community a service, by retweeting our blogs, and subtling adding his own content. He also is actively answering people’s SharePoint questions.
muhanado – Mo! SharePoint MVP, My favorite SharePoint Middle East Connection.
EricaToelle – SharePoint Community Twitterer
mattgroves
Sharepointer – Asking some interesting community questions to drum up some #SharePoint activity
hwaterman Heather Waterman – SharePoint Community Awesome Designer on Community EBE
michaellotter – SharePoint Community guy and Speaker
rprakashg – SharePoint Consultant and Community Advocate
markarend – Microsoft SharePoint Consultant
alpesh – Insightful SharePoint and Tech Blogger
stacyDraper – SharePoint MVP
danholme – SharePoint MVP – Great writer as well.
jopxtwits – SharePoint MVP and blogger (Podcasting kit)
brettlonsdale – Brett Lonsdale – BDC Guru
laflour – Michael Nemtsev – MS MVP Web Developer / SharePoint Consultant
helloitsliam
usher
AaronSaikovski2
sharepointing Steve Walker (MCS)
davidliv – SharePoint BI Guy
themossman- Randy Drisgill (SharePoint Branding)
kalsing – Solutions Architect in Brisbane
SharePointSher Sherry Neal – SharePoint all day long (Germany)
spietrek – Steve Pietrek – SharePoint Dev Ohio
cglessner – IloveSharePoint Blog. Cool Powershell SharePoint integration stuff.
asifrehmani – SharePoint MVP and Screencaster
resing
Xytrex – Jamie Sloan – SharePoint Community Microsoft
SharePoint411
scotts Scott Spradlin – SharePoint Custom Dev
PirateEric – SharePoint guy
ferringer – John Ferringer SharePoint Architect Indianapolis
paulculmsee
brandsharepoint
John_LeBlanc
d2design Edwin – Belgium (SharePoint Software Architect)
jshuey – Jeff Shuey previous of K2 – Really Knows BPM
CodeJedi – William Cornwill – SharePoint and .NET Dev
GrumpyWookie Chris OConnor
paulschaeflein – SharePoint Dev
danlarson – SharePoint MVP Developer
orijin Philippe Sentenac – SharePoint Blogger
EROL_MVP – SharePoint MVP France
tomconte – SharePoint Product Specialist (France/Some French Tweets)
AliSanaei – SharePoint Consultant
richfinn
sezai
AndreaKalli – SharePoint and Office Podcaster
jefferydalton
BrianFarnhill
AaronCutlip
jdeverter
DougWare
rbair
ritmeijer
gregkamer
susanlennon – SharePoint Community Leader – SharePoint Saturday
erickraus
cjregan
bishopd

Auto SharePoint Twitterfeeds:

SharePoint – Blogs from the SharePoint Team Blog
SharePointMVPs – Partial list of SharePoint MVP blog post title tweets
SPtweeters
zevenseas – Collection of SharePoint Blog Feeds from zevenseas

Other SharePoint MVPs to watch/follow as they figure out the twitterverse…

garybushey

Stephen Cummins (secure)

ssofian – Steve Sofian – SharePoint MVP (Singapore)

kitkai – Kit Kai – SharePoint MVP (Singapore)

bobmixon

jholliday John Holliday (I think he likes to try things once 🙂 Nice podcast.)
toddbleeker – Come on you create a profile and not a single tweet?

ldusolier

shaneperran

TonyBierman

Upcoming Conference Twitter accountst

MIX09

SharePointBP

spsaturday

MOSSCamp

Secure SharePoint Tweeters:

Jonathan Kauffman – Search GPM Still waiting for him to accept my following.

KKRSeattle – Kristian Rickard Enterprise Search, (secure) Fast GPM

erobillard (Secure) Eli Robbilard – SharePoint MVP (Toronto)

SharePoint PMs that really LOVE SharePoint and fly under the radar on twitter. We may not want to randomize them as they are working on 14, but I hope to see them get more active as it gets more public. I see a few of these guys are fairly open about who they are in their profiles.

LoungeFlyZ Chris Johnson – PM Dev experience
zorbadgreek George Perantatos – SharePoint & Office Labs

umeshunni Umesh Unnikrishnan – PM Services

tylerbutler Tyler Butler – PM Content Management/Content Deployment

MisterMorrill – Kevin Morrill – PM Social Features

Not enough people to follow?

This list is not complete, and is really pretty random based on my own experiences and really based on one night of walking through recent conversations and tweeting experiences I’ve had.

There are some apps to help you expand your circle:

http://www.Twollow.com – This wild app will help you add people fast based on terms they use in their tweets

Twubble – This app will make recommendations for friends based on your current friends (doesn’t scale if you have thousands of friends)

http://search.twitter.com/advanced Search has gotten better on Twitter, but it feels burried at times. People search in some ways seems worse to me.

TweetDeck – This is my favorite app for following twitter. The web UI is really pretty weak.

By the way, feel free to put your name and number of followers in the comments and why you think you should be listed here.

I welcome your feedback.