25 JS Developers You Must Follow On Twitter

Who you follow on Twitter is key to your overall Twitter experience. Follow the wrong people and you’re going to be getting nowhere very quickly.

But follow the right people and you’ll find an endless flow of advice, updates, tips and tricks to try out, even new languages to learn.

The question is: Are you following the right people?

We’ve put together a list of developers that you have to follow. They range from the movers and shakers of the industry to developers you might not know about or haven’t considered following.

25 developers doesn’t come close to summing up all the influential and inspiring developers out there. If there’s someone you think should be added to the list, let us know in the comments below.

#1. John Resig

• Creator of jQuery
• Dean of Computer Science at Khan Academy
• Author of Pro JavaScript Techniques
• Author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja

Top Tweet (1039 retweets):

jQuery 1.5 Released! http://j.mp/hvWLeb

— John Resig (@jeresig) January 31, 2011

#2. Paul Irish

• Front-end developer
• Works at Google on the dev relations team
• jQuery team member
• Among tons of other open source code, he’s developed: Modernizr, CSS3 Please, HTML5 Boilerplate

Top Tweet (1135 retweets):

Big moves. jQuery 2.0 will drop support for IE <=8! Awesome. (jQuery 1.9 will hold oldIE support) #jqcon

— Paul Irish (@paul_irish) June 28, 2012

#3. Addy Osmani

• Developer Programs Engineer at Google
• jQuery Team Member
• Personal projects include: TodoMVC, jQuery UI Bootstrap
• Author of: ‘Developing Backbone.js Applications’, ‘Learning JavaScript Design Patterns’
• Tech reviews books like: ‘JavaScript Web Applications’

Top Tweet ( 146 retweets):

A Guide To Building Large-Scale jQuery Applications http://bit.ly/faHzb6 - just posted. #jquery #javascript

— Addy Osmani (@addyosmani) December 26, 2010

#4. Remy Sharp

• Founder and curator of Full Frontal
• Runs jQuery for Designers
• Co-authored Introducing HTML5
• A curator of HTML5Doctor.com
• Runs his own development and training company in Brighton called Left Logic

Top Tweet (110 retweets):

My unedited thought about vendor prefixes: remysharp.com/vendor-prefixe…

— Remy Sharp (@rem) February 9, 2012

#5. Lea Verou

• Frontend developer
• Dabbles in design & UX
• Made @dabblet & @prefixfree

Top Tweet (433 retweets):

Ever wondered what happens to people that don’t pass the US border control inspections? It’s that scary: guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jun…Wow. :(

— Lea Verou (@LeaVerou) June 24, 2012

#6. Mr.doob (Ricardo Cabello Migue)

Top Tweet (193 retweets):

Adobe Brackets - An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. i.imgur.com/7Wa6p.png github.com/adobe/brackets

— Mr.doob (@mrdoob) May 2, 2012

#7. David Walsh

• Web developer
• Works at Mozilla
• Founder and Lead Developer for Wynq Web Labs
• Core Developer for the MooTools JavaScript framework
• Co-Founder of Script & Style
• Codes in: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and XML

Top Tweet (153 retweets):

RT if you remember your mom or dad yelling at you to get off the internet because they needed to use the phone.

— David Walsh (@davidwalshblog) July 25, 2012

#8. Mathias Bynens

• Frontend web developer
• Collaborates on opens source projects such as jsPerf and HTML5 Boilerplate

Top Tweet (504 retweets):

8-bit Google Maps: maps.google.com/maps?t=8

— Mathias Bynens (@mathias) March 31, 2012

#9. Umut Muhaddisoglu

• Web developer
• Created Uptime Robot
• Runs: WebResourcesDepot

Top Tweet (40 retweets):

Fireworks with canvas - pretty cool - bit.ly/GQMFOT

— Umut Muhaddisoglu (@umutm) March 27, 2012

#10. Brian Leroux

• Open source software developer
• Works at Adobe
• Projects include: PhoneGap, Apache Cordova, quick-vim, wtfjs, Lawnchair, xui

Top Tweet (55 retweets):

Intel has ported Cordova/PhoneGap to Windows 7 github.com/otcshare/cordo…

— xnoɹǝʃ uɐıɹq (@brianleroux) July 12, 2012

#11. Steve Souders

• Works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives
• Author of: High Performance Web Sites, Even Faster Web Sites
• Created: YSlow, one of the top 25 Firefox add-ons
• Created many other performance tools and services including the HTTP Archive, Cuzillion, Jdrop, SpriteMe, ControlJS, and Browserscope
• He serves as co-chair of Velocity
• Co-founder of the Firebug Working Group
• Taught CS193H: High Performance Web Sites at Stanford, and does many public speaking appearances

Top Tweet (342 retweets):

THIS IS HUGE! Google Analytics now supports measuring page load times: http://bit.ly/jF1VLS

— souders (@souders) May 4, 2011

#12. Alex Sexton

• Front-end developer
• Works at Bazaarvoice
• Team member of: Modernizr & jQuery
• Wrote GOTO
• Created: yepnope.js, html5r0cks.com, partofhtml5.com

Top Tweet (186 retweets):

I think being skilled at debugging is probably more important than being skilled at coding.

— Alex Sexton (@SlexAxton) March 6, 2012

#13. Dion Almaer

• Vice President, Mobile Architecture @WalmartLabs
• Founder of Ajaxian
• Founder of Set Direction
• Previously worked as Director, Developer Tools for Palm & Mozilla

Top Tweet (45 retweets):

A year ago if someone asked you “how do I stream binary data to Javascript?” the answer would have been “Flash” or “no” binaryjs.com

— Dion Almaer (@dalmaer) July 27, 2012

#14. Jeremy Ashkenas

• Created CoffeeScript, Backbone.js and http://underscorejs.org/
• Works at DocumentCloud

Top Tweet (350 retweets):

The moment you’ve been waiting for … “Hello World” in Dart, compiled to JavaScript: gist.github.com/1277224

— Jeremy Ashkenas (@jashkenas) October 11, 2011

#15. Kangax (Juriy Zaytsev)

• Front end web developer
• Work involves exploring and taming various aspects of Javascript
• Ex- Prototype.js core developer
• Blog: http://perfectionkills.com/

Top Tweet (157 retweets):

Profiling CSS for fun and profit. Optimization notes — perfectionkills.com/profiling-css-…

— kangax (@kangax) January 4, 2012

#16. Peter Cooper

• Software developer and code experimenter (Ruby, JavaScript, and C primarily)
• Chair of O’Reilly Fluent, O’Reilly’s JavaScript and HTML5 conference
• Screencaster and podcaster
• Niche publisher and blogger
• Author
• Entrepreneur who has sold a couple of businesses
• consultant specializing in e-mail newsletters

Top Tweet (247 retweets):

RT @peterc: Linus Torvalds really, really, really doesn’t like GitHub’s pull request feature it seems: github.com/torvalds/linux…

— Scot Hacker (@shacker) May 11, 2012

#17. Felix Geisendorfer

• Founder of transloadit.com
• Founder of Debuggable
• Node.js core alumni

Top Tweet (32 retweets):

The Node.js Scalability Myth - Slides from my talk last night at @berlinjs are now online: speakerdeck.com/u/felixge/p/th… #nodejs

— Felix Geisendörfer (@felixge) March 16, 2012

#18. Andrea Giammarchi

• JavaScript developer
• Works at Facebook
• Blogs: webreflection.blogspot.com

Top Tweet (73 retweets):

LOL RT @jaffathecake:I’m crying with laughter RT @addy_osmani Be careful what links you post to the Chromium-dev group groups.google.com/a/chromium.org…

— Andrea Giammarchi (@WebReflection) March 20, 2012

#19. Max Ogden

• Developer living in San Francisco
• A Code for America fellow
• One of the founding developers of Couchappspora, an open source social network built with Apache CouchDB

Top Tweet (65 retweets):

I started writing a guide that explains how to write async javascript programs: callbackhell.com fork, help out and share please!

— maxogden (@maxogden) July 13, 2012

#20. Jack Franklin

• Freelance web developer
• Blog: http://www.javascriptplayground.com/

Top Tweet (15 retweets):

“Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning”

— Jack Franklin (@Jack_Franklin) May 31, 2012

#21. Angus Croll

• Web developer & architect
• Engineer at Twitter
• Author of blog: Javascript, Javascript
• Codes in: JavaScript, NodeJS, Ruby, Java, Smalltalk

Top Tweet (45 retweets):

JS Protip: If you find yourself declaring vars inside an ‘if’ stmt, it suggests the enclosed code belongs in a separate function

— Angus Croll (@angustweets) August 2, 2011

#22. Sindre Sorhus

• Web developer with an eye for great UI
• Mostly code in JavaScript and Python, but not afraid to get my hands dirty

Top Tweet (85 retweets):

Chrome for iOS shows a smileyface when you have 100+ open tabs twitter.com/sindresorhus/s…

— ෴ Sindre Sorhus (@sindresorhus) June 29, 2012

#23. Dale Harvey

• Developer at Mozilla
• Blog: http://arandomurl.com/
• Codes in: Jhtml5. javascript, erlang, web, node.js, couchdb
• Co-Founder: http://hypernumbers.com/

Top Tweet (97 retweets):

moqups.com looks pretty sweet, happy to see a lot of these tools pop up

— Dale Harvey (@daleharvey) July 10, 2012

#24. Ben Alman

• Creates: websites &l jQuery plugins
• Director of Pluginization at @bocouphttp://bocoup.com/

Top Tweet (35 retweets):

Ok, now THIS is impressive. Pure CSS GUI icons (experimental) – Nicolas Gallagher http://bit.ly/llQjPE #css

— Ben Alman (@cowboy) June 13, 2011

#25. Ben Nadel

• CTO at InVision
• Blog: http://www.bennadel.com/
• An Adobe Community Expert
• An Adobe Certified Professional in Advanced ColdFusion
• Co-manages the New York City ColdFusion User Group

Top Tweet (20 retweets):

It’s sad when an unused Domain Name is about to expire. You know, at some level, it was a dream never realized. Renew. Make it happen!

— Ben Nadel (@BenNadel) March 22, 2012

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