<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.
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.
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)
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
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.