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Nine Web Developers That Must Be Followed On Twitter

9 Web Developers Who MUST Be Followed On Twitter

on Aug 7th 2008 with 76 comments

This web roundup will list nine developers that absolutely must be tracked on Twitter. They represent the best of the best and are extremely active in the community. Be sure to follow each and every one of them. They might even help you if you’ve hit a bump in your coding! By the time you’re through with this list, you’ll probably think, “Why didn’t he include this person!”. Well be sure to leave a comment with those that I left off.

  • Eric Meyer

    Eric Meyer: http://www.meyerweb.com

    Few web developers are unfamiliar with this name. In fact, the first CSS book that
    yours truly ever read was written by this man – “Eric Meyer on CSS”. For the two
    readers in the dark, Eric Meyer is best known for his web standards work and for
    the many books that he has written over the years – most notably on Cascading Style
    Sheets. Currently, Eric works as a consultant for Complex Spiral Consulting.

    Follow

  • Molly Holzschlag

    Molly Holzschlag: http://www.molly.com

    Molly is best known for her work on the “Web Standards Project”. In addition to
    promoting best practices and web standards, she has written many books related to
    web design and was recently named one of the “Top 25 Most Influential Women on the
    Web”!

    Follow

  • John Resig

    John Resig: http://www.jquery.com

    NETTUTS focuses on jQuery a great deal. Why shouldn’t it? It is easily the most
    popular Javascript framework available; no doubt due to its wonderful implementation
    of CSS selectors. Are you familiar with its creator? Meet John Resig. He’s a young
    and brilliant man living in Boston. He is currently working for Mozilla.

    Follow

  • Andy Budd

    Andy Budd: http://www.andybudd.com

    Andy is a web developer based in The United Kingdom, and is currently the director
    of “Clear Left”. If I could name only one book that taught me more than
    any other, it would be “CSS Mastery” – written by Andy. If you haven’t read it yet,
    I 100% recommend it! He is a big advocate for the web standards project and speaks
    at conferences around the world.

    Follow

  • Jeff Croft

    Jeff Croft: http://jeffcroft.com

    In his own words – “I am a web designer and developer living and working in Seattle,
    WA. I am employed full-time by Blue Flavor, a design agency specializing in standards-based
    design and development for the web and mobile web. In addition to being a full-time
    designer, I occasionally author books on web design, speak at conferences, and blog
    at jeffcroft.com.”

    For those interested, I highly recommend that you purchase Jeff’s (co-written with
    Dan Rubin) book, “Pro CSS Techniques”.

    Follow

  • Jeffrey Zeldman

    Jeffrey Zeldman: http://www.zeldman.com

    Jeffrey is an author on web design and runs his own studio, Happy Cog. Most notably,
    he is the founder of “A List Apart” – a website that focuses on web development
    and best practices. The site is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year!

    Follow

  • Chris Coyier

    Chris Coyier: http://www.chriscoyier.net

    In such a short time, Chris – owner of CSS-Tricks – has amassed over 7500 loyal
    subscribers (yours truly being one of them). Be sure to check out his video tutorials
    on Thursdays. For that matter, be sure to check the site every day! It will prove
    to be a vital resource. When he is not running his blog, he works as a web designer
    for “Chatman Design”.

    Follow

  • Cameron Moll

    Cameron Moll: www.cameronmoll.com

    Cameron is a designer, speaker, and author on all things related to the web. His
    work has been recognized across the globe. When he is not tending to his children,
    he maintains a blog and works as an “Interaction Design Manager” at the LDS Church.
    He was also a contributing author to CSS Mastery.

    Follow

  • Collis Ta'eed

    Collis and Cyan Ta’eed: www.envato.com

    People like these two make me feel like a failure. While I consider the
    year a success if I’m able to redesign my blog once or twice, Collis and Cyan, at
    least it seems, somehow manage to crank out site after incredible site! Fastly and
    surely, their sites are becoming the premier resource for developers, designers,
    engineers…just about anything! They are currently opening the beta version of
    “ThemeForest”. Click on the “Envato Network” button at the top right portion of
    this page to switch between sites. P.S. Are you followingNETTUTSon Twitter as well?

    Follow

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  • http://www.some1ne.com Fouad Masoud

    ok ok lsn guys i am following those guys and much more from web professionals all around the world and guess what its no use following most of them.

    If i am to order your list, it would look like this.
    1- Chris Coyier.
    2- Jeff Croft.
    3- John Resig (though i would prefer following jQuery)
    4- Eric, Molly and Zeldman (coz u just have 2, its part of the faith)
    5- Cameron Moll.
    6- Collis and Cyan Ta’eed and Andy.

    personally i think its far more better to follow apps and products rather than people, meaning i think i was one of the first ppl to know about the new wordpress coz i am following wordpress. following jQuery points u to lots of new implementations of it and leads u to heads up tips. etc…

  • http://elitestyles.co.uk Marek holeszowski

    I’ve only just started using twitter so this post is great, thanks!

  • http://smashingfeeds.com Kevin

    My name is missing in the list ;)
    Nice listing…

  • http://teotti.com Enrico Teotti

    I think you are giving a misleading suggestion with “that absolutely must be tracked on Twitter” and “Be sure to follow each and every one of them”
    And “They might even help you if you’ve hit a bump in your coding!”? If you need help do you seriously expect/hope to receive an answer from twitter? :-) I’d instead suggest to subscribe to a proper mailing list or IRC channel.

    I use twitter to follow people I care about such as my friends, or people I met on the net. I care if my friend’s son is sick, I care about my buddies replies. And that’s already a huge amount of info to keep track of.

    I tried to follow Molly (and after reading the post I gave a look at Zeldman’s and Meyers) but it was just a stream of personal stuff that I do not care about. As you probably don’t care about my twitters on twitter.com/agenteo

    You are absolutely right when you say “They represent the best of the best and are extremely active in the community” and you should read their books, and their articles. But I don’t think you need to follow their twitters. Unless you personally know them, if you have a lot of spare time or if you want to say “me too”.

  • http://www.detacheddesigns.com Jeffrey Way
    Author

    @Enrico – I disagree with you. I’ve received a great amount of help from Twitter. It’s a great way to ask the community a quick questions…and receive a dozen responses. Personally, I enjoy seeing how the top people in my field live their lives. But, we can agree to disagree. Thanks for your thoughts. :)

  • http://teotti.com Enrico Teotti

    I understand you enjoyment following their life and I am totally fine with that :-)

    I think we agree that on twitter they talk mostly (80%?) about personal stuff (like most of us does on twitter), so I still think “that absolutely must be tracked on Twitter” and “Be sure to follow each and every one of them” is bad phrased. It sounds like you are gonna miss out some important piece of information if you don’t follow them. And it’s not like that.

    I agree that twitter is a great way to get feedbacks, but you will concur that when you start following hundreads of people you will end up receiving a lot of twitters. Something that is really time consuming to read, specially when you are already overwhelmed by information coming from RSS feeds. Can you imagine trying to follow thousands of people?

    Eric A. Meyer
    # Following 120
    # Followers 4,491

    Molly E. Holzschlag
    # Following 768
    # Followers 3,658

    John Resig
    # Following 467
    # Followers 3,661

    Andy Budd
    # Following 285
    # Followers 257

    Jeff Croft
    # Following 293
    # Followers 3,133

    Jeffrey Zeldman
    # Following 214
    # Followers 8,271

    Chris Coyier
    # Following 279
    # Followers 1,675

    Cameron Moll
    # Following 121
    # Followers 3,552

    collis
    # Following 11
    # Followers 1,590

    Yes the following is a small fraction compared to the followers. I don’t think anybody would expect anything but this. And this is absolutely not a critic to any of them.

    What I want to outline is for twitter newbies, don’t think you can add those guys and that they will start following or helping you. Instead read their books or post comments on their blogs.

    ps
    I will now try to follow Chris Coyier :-)

  • http://demo.atlassoft.co.in/design/portfolio/html/ ali

    hi cool

  • http://www.detacheddesigns.com Jeffrey Way
    Author

    @Enrico – As I said before, I have, in fact, been helped by these people. I don’t think anyone can deny that Twitter is a fantastic networking tool.

  • http://www.mikebobiney.com Mike Bobiney

    Chris Coyier is top notch I’ve been enjoying his screencasts and he got me into wordpress theming. Certainly everyone on the list has indispensable knowledge to share.

  • http://www.blackleafmedia.com/ Patrick Sweeney

    To the guy who thought Chris Coyier doesn’t belong on here: He is cranking out consistently high quality stuff all of the time. If you don’t think so, don’t follow him. But in the “what have you done for me lately” way the web works, he is probably one of the more active ones on that list.
    I can honestly say you are doing yourself a giant disservice if you aren’t paying attention to him.

  • http://www.andybudd.com/ Andy Budd

    Ah, so this is the reason I’ve been getting loads of people I don’t know trying to follow me on Twitter :-)

    I have to admit that I’m honoured to be in such a prestigious list. However as you’ve probably gathered by now I keep my Twitter list closed, mostly because it’s just a stream of pointless drivel. After all, why would anybody who doesn’t know me care what I’m having for breakfast, where I’m going for beers or what I think of the latest Batman movie (it rocks btw).

    Anyway, thanks again.

    Lates

  • Dean

    It’s all good guys

    Secret is to raise your expectations. This is to those of you who are really in the dark-night of creative gestation, and live in the digital world on a daily basis.

    Your not alone, their are others, such as myself.

    Collis’s energy is worth investigating, swallow your pride and accept others may have had greater timing, resource, life-experience, drive and comminitment then yourself, but do not be envious, yet open yourself up to their energy. Consider all aspects of your life, to raise your level of consiousness, up and too, that of people who are prooving to be successful in the material aspects of this life.

    In the midst of extreme suffering ,you will find a torch that will burn brighter then you could ever imagine.
    follow it !.

    And if it does not “FEEL” , like the right time for yourself,……….. it’s not. There are generational opportunities at play here too, aka, this is majority a era for Gen X’s to come to the forefront

    Gen Y’s, will have it even better then ourself!, so just hang in there and do the right thing.

    This is a radical change of human awareness that is currently in the air, radical revisioning of what “work”

    and “money” mean to society, and how we can all work together to find ways to say goodbye to the

    Office cube nightmare of the 1990, least for those who are intelligent and spiritually aware enough to not

    be a mindless LEMMING, working day in , day out doing something you resent!.

    CHOOSE THE HARD WAY!, it leads to peace!, eventually.

  • http://www.aminorstudios.com Eric Thayne

    Cool! I’d like to see a list like this on PSDTUTS, only it would be a list of designers to follow!

  • http://www.thesuccessprocess.com Matt Santi

    Does anyone have any good idea on how you can stay up to date with all this information going around? Lot’s of great ideas, but with only 24 hours in a day, anyone have any suggestions for what they do to get the meat and potatoes of something without wasting a lot of time?

  • http://www.christiancoquet.com Christian

    Great list, i’ve always wondered who created jquery :)

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  • http://andybudd.com/ Andy Budd

    Just thought I’d let you guys know that I’ve caved to the pressure (and shear number of friend requests I’ve been getting) and decided to open up my Twitter feed to all. Enjoy.

    http://twitter.com/andybudd

  • http://www.creativeworld.com.au/ Leon Poole

    Agreed – These guys are must follows for those in the creative/design/web scene.

    @creativeworld
    http://twitter.com/creativeworld

  • http://cattlecreative.com brian sweeney

    Ok guys, myself and a friend are both in the process of setting up brand new twitter accounts. H e in banking, I am obviously involved (in a small way) in the world of web design.

    We are having a competition, 1 month, the one with the least followers on twitter loses.

    So here is my pitch…

    Follow us Irish web designers as we move from disaster through development on to delicious. Track the movement from broke to very happy bloke at > http://twitter.com/cattlecreative

    This twitter thing is new to me, but it is starting as my web design business opens its doors, so it will be an intresting journey.

    Thanks guys,.

    Bub

  • http://www.easilyamusedinc.com James Tryon

    8 out of 9 was not bad, now im following all 9

  • http://www.vmalni.com Buzzlair Voufincci

    followed them all. and im still wondering of james comment, 8 out of 9. whats your motive?

  • design4eye

    hey guys if you like follow me I will follow you
    http://twitter.com/design4eye
    I am web designer/graphic designer

  • mytemplatebox

    I am web designer/graphic designer too
    if you like follow me I will follow you
    http://twitter.com/mytemplatebox

  • http://bloggerzbible.blogspot.com/ Bloggerzbible

    will follow collis

  • http://www.pakzilla.com Tahir Akram

    Following collis already.

  • Djkanna

    Old post I know but I thought I’d share, you cannot forget about one great developer;
    Rasmus Lerdorf — http://twitter.com/rasmus

  • http://- Ninad

    Yes Please follow these Developers they are amazing

  • http://www.penciltool.com venkat

    Its a great list, and every web developer should follow these people to get more inspiration and ideas. Thanks for posting ……

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