Top most followed by @newsycombinator's followers
| Rank | Popularity | Followers | Friends | Name (@twitter) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 98020 | 105062 | 2 | Hacker News (@newsycombinator) |
| 2 | 48503 | 5350899 | 683 | TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) |
| 3 | 41285 | 23286724 | 166 | Bill Gates (@BillGates) |
| 4 | 35720 | 2334285 | 48 | Elon Musk (@elonmusk) |
| 5 | 34611 | 11758308 | 448 | Google (@google) |
| 6 | 34424 | 4816092 | 217 | WIRED (@WIRED) |
| 7 | 31445 | 5475803 | 2808 | Mashable (@mashable) |
| 8 | 31035 | 257332 | 138 | Paul Graham (@paulg) |
| 9 | 29319 | 620422 | 174 | GitHub (@github) |
| 10 | 29083 | 287489 | 116 | Y Combinator (@ycombinator) |
| 11 | 28923 | 42600507 | 138 | Twitter (@twitter) |
| 12 | 27005 | 1947506 | 1433 | Tim O'Reilly (@timoreilly) |
| 13 | 26278 | 3051022 | 1509 | Jack (@jack) |
| 14 | 26178 | 61404387 | 641928 | Barack Obama (@BarackObama) |
| 15 | 24457 | 17778603 | 993 | The New York Times (@nytimes) |
| 16 | 24004 | 9303925 | 126 | The Economist (@TheEconomist) |
| 17 | 23971 | 1055532 | 339 | marissamayer (@marissamayer) |
| 18 | 23927 | 1136764 | 227 | Eric Schmidt (@ericschmidt) |
| 19 | 23832 | 1582384 | 525 | Kevin Rose (@kevinrose) |
| 20 | 23694 | 399806 | 978 | Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) |
| 21 | 23564 | 6087770 | 389 | TED Talks (@TEDTalks) |
| 22 | 22613 | 6034945 | 3852 | Richard Branson (@richardbranson) |
| 23 | 22498 | 1314839 | 146 | Medium (@Medium) |
| 24 | 22415 | 4098436 | 21 | Dropbox (@Dropbox) |
| 25 | 21589 | 284798 | 15001 | Dave McClure (@davemcclure) |
| 26 | 21333 | 1833984 | 1758 | Ev Williams (@ev) |
| 27 | 21311 | 350784 | 4998 | Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) |
| 28 | 21221 | 521396 | 1479 | VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) |
| 29 | 20776 | 1590546 | 1184 | The Next Web (@TheNextWeb) |
| 30 | 20539 | 2497431 | 677 | Biz Stone (@biz) |
| 31 | 20509 | 2766578 | 52 | Lifehacker (@lifehacker) |
| 32 | 20382 | 182022 | 2639 | Chris Dixon (@cdixon) |
| 33 | 20237 | 226905 | 857 | Eric Ries (@ericries) |
| 34 | 20006 | 344744 | 2377 | 500 Startups (@500Startups) |
| 35 | 19970 | 10932077 | 235 | NASA (@NASA) |
| 36 | 19752 | 1840372 | 3954 | Fast Company (@FastCompany) |
| 37 | 19612 | 2140738 | 190 | Harvard Biz Review (@HarvardBiz) |
| 38 | 19561 | 6650095 | 1007 | Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) |
| 39 | 19489 | 294226 | 501 | Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman) |
| 40 | 19342 | 423679 | 249 | Google Ventures (@GoogleVentures) |
| 41 | 19146 | 460038 | 44961 | Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) |
| 42 | 19037 | 1489827 | 1125 | Om Malik (@om) |
| 43 | 18992 | 27797760 | 117 | CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) |
| 44 | 18670 | 1599913 | 861 | Chris Sacca (@sacca) |
| 45 | 18527 | 276553 | 821 | Sequoia Capital (@sequoia) |
| 46 | 18456 | 170251 | 164 | Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) |
| 47 | 18021 | 1381113 | 140 | Google Developers (@googledevs) |
| 48 | 17948 | 973894 | 157 | Ars Technica (@arstechnica) |
| 49 | 17932 | 210924 | 1103 | Mark Suster (@msuster) |
| 50 | 17723 | 140840 | 194 | DHH (@dhh) |
| 51 | 17634 | 189844 | 183 | Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz) |
| 52 | 17541 | 208320 | 1 | AngelList (@AngelList) |
| 53 | 17367 | 930781 | 121 | The Verge (@verge) |
| 54 | 17304 | 1651183 | 2636 | ReadWrite (@RWW) |
| 55 | 16994 | 159601 | 3 | Venture Hacks (@venturehacks) |
| 56 | 16950 | 1544590 | 591 | dick costolo (@dickc) |
| 57 | 16810 | 7774742 | 15 | The Onion (@TheOnion) |
| 58 | 16760 | 199102 | 1468 | Michael Arrington (@arrington) |
| 59 | 16668 | 3900400 | 44 | Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) |
| 60 | 16668 | 17107375 | 1 | Conan O'Brien (@ConanOBrien) |
| 61 | 16475 | 195253 | 3241 | John Resig (@jeresig) |
| 62 | 16378 | 733521 | 655 | Walt Mossberg (@waltmossberg) |
| 63 | 16322 | 52641989 | 891 | YouTube (@YouTube) |
| 64 | 16298 | 1442625 | 114 | Gizmodo (@Gizmodo) |
| 65 | 16218 | 16413683 | 3 | BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) |
| 66 | 16149 | 1300617 | 41 | Tim Cook (@tim_cook) |
| 67 | 16106 | 1391156 | 235 | Engadget (@engadget) |
| 68 | 16050 | 2156840 | 16279 | Forbes Tech News (@ForbesTech) |
| 69 | 15769 | 1722702 | 544 | Chris Anderson (@TEDchris) |
| 70 | 15557 | 5838320 | 5262 | Forbes (@Forbes) |
| 71 | 15528 | 453220 | 247 | Vinod Khosla (@vkhosla) |
| 72 | 15438 | 212103 | 837 | Brad Feld (@bfeld) |
| 73 | 14978 | 920603 | 1308 | Smashing Magazine (@smashingmag) |
| 74 | 14688 | 11424034 | 0 | Dalai Lama (@DalaiLama) |
| 75 | 14331 | 1254262 | 925 | Tim Ferriss (@tferriss) |
| 76 | 14245 | 150791 | 196 | Jason Fried (@jasonfried) |
| 77 | 13767 | 5118911 | 291 | The New Yorker (@NewYorker) |
| 78 | 13709 | 1045183 | 1272 | Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) |
| 79 | 13396 | 233866 | 14730 | jason (@Jason) |
| 80 | 13191 | 253174 | 3 | Techmeme (@Techmeme) |
| 81 | 13010 | 39554599 | 3 | Instagram (@instagram) |
| 82 | 12967 | 138745 | 5 | steve blank (@sgblank) |
| 83 | 12322 | 8255391 | 22 | Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) |
| 84 | 12084 | 188039 | 19537 | techstars (@techstars) |
| 85 | 12016 | 1346656 | 1688 | Inc. (@Inc) |
| 86 | 11969 | 2444629 | 23100 | Guardian Tech (@guardiantech) |
| 87 | 11866 | 304141 | 144 | Gigaom (@gigaom) |
| 88 | 11769 | 133264 | 325 | Max Levchin (@mlevchin) |
| 89 | 11593 | 7677155 | 535 | Breaking News (@BreakingNews) |
| 90 | 11568 | 185404 | 169273 | Hiten Shah (@hnshah) |
| 91 | 11397 | 162778 | 1077 | M.G. Siegler (@mgsiegler) |
| 92 | 10794 | 7663172 | 782 | TIME.com (@TIME) |
| 93 | 10240 | 6936067 | 1590226 | Hootsuite (@hootsuite) |
| 94 | 10142 | 7828014 | 48 | Android (@Android) |
| 95 | 10086 | 108436 | 534 | Joel Spolsky (@spolsky) |
| 96 | 9927 | 118101 | 481 | Naval Ravikant (@naval) |
| 97 | 9668 | 17008073 | 674 | ashton kutcher (@aplusk) |
| 98 | 9610 | 168520 | 45 | a16z (@a16z) |
| 99 | 8585 | 155828 | 496 | Aaron Levie (@levie) |
| 100 | 8570 | 88648 | 116 | Sam Altman (@sama) |