The document lists the 140 most influential people on Twitter ranked by their number of followers, handle, category of influence, level of influence, and account creation date. It provides brief details about each person including their first tweet. The people range from public figures like Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, and the Dalai Lama to designers, entrepreneurs, and journalists.

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
@espiekermann | 3.3 Jason Pollock 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010
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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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118 the trailer for my film at... http://www.TheYoungestCandidate.com
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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
106
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 Om Malik 8/27/2007
Got nothing done today. Have spent the entire 3/15/2007 @om | 7.8 51
30 Guy Kawasaki
day obsessed with this (pdf): http://is.gd/2QNIw
88 Major Nelson Looking 4 food 99
77 2/8/2007 82 @GuyKawasaki | 51 101
Just created a better Twitter name
@majornelson | 9.2 Chris Pirillo 5/5/2009
4/17/2009 Wondering why people want to know what I am doing. @chrispirillo | 13
Oprah Winfrey
40 I've been twitterpated? Michael Arrington
7/15/2006 @arrington | 12
@Oprah | 0.3 10 1/18/2007
HI TWITTERS . THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING 110 60
Jason Calacanis Kevin Rose
41 woohoo. A Twitter account of my very own, unbound by
the corporate policy chains of TechCrunch. Freedom!
REALLY 21st CENTURY. @Jason | 12 3/7/2007
3/21/2006 @kevinrose | 3.6
2/13/2007 I'm going to get food for a festive
Drinking tea @ work TechCrunch 8/7/2008
78 Joshua Allen Evan Williams 80
holiday dinner tonight. Check 18 @TechCrunch | 14 Digg
6/18/2009 59 @ev | 3.5 out the trailer for my film at...
@fireland | 0.6 Blogging! @digg_2000 | 11
Priyanka Chopra When I go into the office bathroom and someone is going #2 just setting up my twttr http://www.TheYoungestCandi- 84
"John McCain Has 61 Major Flip-Flops: Here Are All of Them!" - http://tinyurl.com/5gmjgo
priyankachopra | 10 11/21/2006 date.com
while I only have to go #1 ... I feel superior
3/10/2009 3/21/2006
Testing... 123... Veronica Belmont
Ellen DeGeneres @Veronica | 4.7 Jack Dorsey 68 3/5/2007 136
Enter tainment
@TheEllenShow | 4.3 6 Gah! Will today never end?! @jack | 4.8 Reddit
Tis my first twitt-er. Or tweet? Twit? Or tweet? just setting up my twttr 119 @reddit 8/2/2007
"Twit or tweet everybody." Is this anything? 3/21/2006 traveling through time
74
Guardian Tech
7/16/2006
12/1/2008 Biz Stone 3/5/2007
@guardiantech | 15
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Jonathan Ross @biz | 2.6 Dave McClure [news] Electronic voting not safe warns election watchdog:
5/7/2008 just setting up my twttr @davemcclure | 7.5 12
The New York Times Trials designed to increase turnou.. http://tinyurl.com/3b8ol3
@Wossy | 22 @nytimes | 39
3/14/2007 Dinner in san mateo.
Getting to know twitter Kevin Smith (shabu shabu) Without Health Benefits, a Good Life Turns Fragile
29
@ThatKevinSmith | 11 34
Wil Wheaton http://shurl.org/bVmbZ
Showing my flick to some fresh eyes, @wilw | 7.9 1/2/2007 7/11/2007
3/21/2006
backing up laptop. Trying to figure out if I signed up with 'wilwheaton' to prevent Start twttr(beta) CNN Breaking News BBC Click
some jerk from stealing it, or if some jerk already stole it. @cnnbrk @BBCClick | 0.8
1/16/2009 50 75
testing BBC Click is looking 4 Twitter users. if available on the 17July for
Ashton Kutcher 3
an intw and in San Francisco, email click@bbc.co.uk 4 more info!
@aplusk | 12 7
4/1/2007
dropping my first tweet 45
106 Wall Street Journal
3/20/2007 @wsj | 15
7/18/2006
Scott Beale Reuters Top News 70
Sega, Nintendo to Make Olympics-Themed Game 4/24/2008
@laughingsq | 8.2
@Reuters http://tinyurl.com/3xkz6l Huffington Post
Russia hunts missing after mine blast kills 106 @huffingtonpost | 45
tweeking twttauid 47 http://tinyurl.com/2bd49t Toby Barlow: It doesn't actually take a genius to notice the sun does it?
10/24/2006 44
1/26/2009 7/21/2006 http://tinyurl.com/68soxe
Demi Moore Public Launch Chris Brogan
@chrisbrogan | 51
27 mrskutcher | 8.8
I'm writing content for Video on the
trying to figure this twitter deal out!
Net and chatting with Julien Smith. 5/3/2007
132
1/24/2007
NPR Politics
3/27/2009 12/19/2006 @nprpolitics | 11 97
Alyssa Milano
28 Jeremiah Owyang Joi Ito No religion with your stamps
@jowyang | 17 87 @Joi | 3.9 http://tinyurl.com/ytnv9v
@alyssa_milano | 23 10/2006
1/28/2009 Surfing the web Starting Twitter... 5/6/2008
this is my official twitter! Obvious Corp. founded
Rainn Wilson 108 Drudge Report
25 @rainnwilson | 7.5 @Drudge_Report | 39
Rainn Wilson. Reporting for duty. AP: More than 3.5 million new voters...
http://tinyurl.com/4zdhk8
3/12/2007 131
3/21/2009
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Fred Wilson
2007 48
Kim Kardashian 3/18/2007 @fredwilson | 5.6
10/9/2007
1/22/2009 trying twitter
@KimKardashian | 9.7 Fox News Mario Sixtus
Hey guys it's Kim Kardashian! I finally signed up for Twitter! Perez Hilton
New
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@foxnews | 131 @sixtus | 6.6
There are a few fakes so just know this is the real me!!! @PerezHilton | 48 NATIONAL: Confederate Flag Hanging From Noose
3/27/2008 Testing Twitter... (check, one, two, check, beeeeeep) 8/4/2008
17 Hi! This is the real me bitches. I'm not on MySpace or Stays on Display http://tinyurl.com/257kuo
Lady Gaga The Economist
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Facebook but I decided to start Twittering. Yee Haw!
@ladygaga | 0.4 90 139 103 @TheEconomist | 4
op rehearsing for my video just dance and am now at wmc to perform 3/2007 7/2/2007 Green.view: Green genes: The shameful destruction of a crop
3/17/2009 trialALMOST ten years ago, a jury acquit.. http://tinyurl.com/5qxdyd
24 at the Armani and nervous records party. But I am no nervous record! ... Twitter dominates SXSW JetBlue Airways 1/30/2008
Paris Hilton 79 @JetBlue | 2.3 5/19/2008
@ParisHilton | 11 Woo-hoo! I am the official airline of Alan Murray
in Vegas at the Hard 4 Springfield! Aye carumba! @alansmurray | 5.6 Jay Rosen
Rock with my Prince... 9/22/2008 116 I'm not getting my updates @jayrosen_nyu | 17
12/6/2008
Britney Spears 5/23/2007
Setting up my Twitter
Taylor Swift @britneyspears | 0.7 1 account to see if I like it.
@taylorswift13 | 1.1 Welcome to Britney Spears' Twitter! Follow the latest in Britney Sascha Lobo 4/29/2007
apologizing to a very needy cat for being gone so long. news and get updates straight from Britney and her entourage. @saschalobo | 4 Barack Obama 37
Prokrastinieren. @BarackObama | 0.6 6/25/2008
8 "Thinking we're only one signature
away from ending the war in Iraq.
Anderson Cooper
@andersoncooper | 13
Learn more at http://www.barackobama.com" Erica’s News Note: What a long strange trip
49 72 http://tinyurl.com/67f3ef
1/28/2009 31
Mariah Carey
@MariahCarey | 1.7
Welcome to Mariah’s Official Twitter Page! 8/19/2008 4/29/2008
Bookmark http://twitter.com/MariahHBF and feel Trent Reznor MC Hammer
free to write back to @MariahHBF about Miss M! 0.9 | @trent_reznor @MCHammer | 12 65
hanging on the bus boring night...my controller must have been broken...every channel had
1/30/2009 11
some preacher name Rev. Wright..I think he's running for President??
John Mayer
@johncmayer | 7.5
Finding The Perfect Fuzz Sound. If You do it right, it 86 3/8/2008
4/30/2007
sounds like breath swirling around in a saxophone. Cool. Tony Hsieh 55
Natalie 32
@zappos | 2.8 7/17/2009
21 @natalie_mu | 19 2008 Hello zappos people at SXSW. Please twitter Kazuyo Katsuma
12/19/2008 "follow zappos" to follow me. -Tony @kazuyo_k | 39
TOWA TEI
50 Cent http://natalie.mu/news/show/id/1564
@50cent | 1.1 15 2
is in Turkey 3/4/2008 1/23/2008
1/13/2009 122 The Onion Arnold Schwarzenegger
Coldplay 64 5/22/2008 @TheOnion | 5.7 @Schwarzenegger | 1 57
@coldplay | 1.4 The Onion reluctantly expands its Inter-net
The official Coldplay twitter (with the official Coldplay 53 Real Madrid presence via Face-book. Damn the lot of
Going to take part in a Q & A at the CA Newspaper Publishers Assn.
@realmadrid | 3.7 Gov. Affairs Day in Sacramento at 1:30pm. Webcast at
twitter url) is go. Welcome one and all. Anchorman you! http://urltea.com/2u7n
Celebración Liga 07/08. Fotos Exclusivas http://gov.ca.gov.
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12/12/2008 1/6/2009 http://fon.gs/celebracion-liga
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Soulja Boy Tell 'Em Sean Combs 8/12/2008
@iamdiddy | 12 Starbucks Coffee
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@souljaboytellem | 26
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In D.C. on promo tour ON SET...GETTING READY TO FLY HOME @Starbucks | 8
FOR THE NOTORIOUS PREMIERE!! Welcome to Starbucks Twitter land!
19
11/18/2008
Shaquille O’Neal
@THE_REAL_SHAQ | 5.6
26
this is the real SHAQUILLE O'NEAL
10/15/2008
Lance Armstrong
12/23/2008 127 @lancearmstrong | 8.6
Michael Jordan Just finished a speech here in Las Vegas for a 22
@michaeljordan | 0.3 company called Teradata. 3000 folks in the audience 11/6/2008
drinking oj and mountaindew 94 on an early vegas am. Bout to ride now!
12/30/2008
Al Gore
@algore | 0.3
MLB Just signed up for Twitter. Please check out
71 @mlb | 26 http://www.algore.com/ and http://www.repoweramerica.org/.
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7/19/2009 hope you have fun with our new Official MLBlogs 93 4/28/2009
us
Kohmi Hirose Twitter page! Use it to post tweets and I suggest
Jack Welch
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@kohmi | 41 http://is.gd for short URLs. Go MLBlogs!
1/9/2009 @jack_welch | 1.7
twitter 56
So here I go. @suzywelch and our kids have browbeaten
2/25/2009 66 Karl Rove me into 2009. Hello Twitter world! Yikes.
2009 @KarlRove | 4.3
Tony Hawk Check out my Op-Ed in the Wall Street
@tonyhawk | 7 Journal...http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1231372205
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woke up with Kady, watching Yo Gabba Gabba, trying to 50562585.html
get over this strange Fijian flu I picked up so I can skate. 6/5/2009
1/23/2009
Takafumi Horie
83 John McCain @takapon_jp | 11
@SenJohnMcCain | 2.5
I am working in my office on Capitol Hill today.
3/17/2009
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Shashi Tharoor
6/23/2009 @ShashiTharoor | 8.8
Rubens Barrichello In Kerala.
@rubarrichello | 24 Bu
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@shitmydadsays | 0.5 11/17/2009 2009
"I didn't live to be 73 years old so I could eat kale. Hiroshi Mikitani 24
Don't fix me your breakfast and pretend you're fixing mine." @hmikitani | 6.8
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