9 Web Developers That MUST Be Followed On Twitter
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.
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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. -
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”! -
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. -
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. -
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”. -
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! -
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”. -
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. -
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
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I’ve only just started using twitter so this post is great, thanks!
My name is missing in the list ;)
Nice listing…
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”.
@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. :)
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 :-)
hi cool
@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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Cool! I’d like to see a list like this on PSDTUTS, only it would be a list of designers to follow!
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?
Great list, i’ve always wondered who created jquery :)
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
Agreed – These guys are must follows for those in the creative/design/web scene.
@creativeworld
http://twitter.com/creativeworld
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
8 out of 9 was not bad, now im following all 9
followed them all. and im still wondering of james comment, 8 out of 9. whats your motive?
hey guys if you like follow me I will follow you
http://twitter.com/design4eye
I am web designer/graphic designer
I am web designer/graphic designer too
if you like follow me I will follow you
http://twitter.com/mytemplatebox
will follow collis
Following collis already.
Old post I know but I thought I’d share, you cannot forget about one great developer;
Rasmus Lerdorf — http://twitter.com/rasmus
Yes Please follow these Developers they are amazing