TUAW's list of best Twitter accounts for Apple fans to follow
Macworld UK recently compiled a list of Twitter accounts that Apple fans should follow. The list covered the executives at Apple who have verified accounts and some notable Apple analysts. We are going to expand their list and add in developers, bloggers and other notable Apple pundits that you should follow for the latest and greatest news and commentary on Apple. If you have any additional suggestions, please add them in the comments.
Former and present Apple Executives
Tim Cook: Apple's CEO just joined Twitter and has logged three tweets. Hopefully more are coming
Phil Schiller: Apple's Senior Vice-President for worldwide marketing, and an enthusiastic presenter at Apple's press events
Eddy Cue: Senior Vice-President for internet software and services
Jony Ive: Apple's Senior Vice President of Design is most likely not on Twitter. There are few unconfirmed accounts, like @SirJonyIve, kicking around, but none have been confirmed
Scott Forstall: Senior Vice President of iOS Software at Apple from 2007 until October 2012. Unconfirmed account with zero tweets
Jean-Louis Gassée: Former Apple executive turned analyst
John Sculley: Former Apple CEO who reigned over Apple's rocky years in the 80s. Unconfirmed account
Notable Apple Employees, past and present
Steve Wozniak: Co-founder of Apple and creator of the Apple I and II
Chris Espinosa: Apple employee #8
Andy Hertzfeld: Member of the original Mac team. Not active on Twitter, but posts all the time on Google +
Bill Atkinson. Member of the original Mac team
Susan Kare: Member of the original Mac team. Highly-respected designer
Guy Kawasaki: Former Apple evangelist, now a Motorola employee
Daniel Kottke: Member of the original Mac team
Michael Jurewitz: iOS and OS X developer now working for apple again
Lia Napolitano: Designer at Apple in California
Johnnie Manzari: User Interface Designer at Apple
Steve Cotterill: User Experience Architect at Apple
Graham Clarke: Designer at Apple, formerly at Glasshouse apps
Official Apple Accounts
Apple: Apple's official Twitter feed, though it's not verified.
iTunes: Official iTunes account
iTunesU: Official iTunesU account
iTunesPodcasting: Official iTunes Podcasting account
iTunes Music: Official iTunes Music account
iTunesTV: Official iTunes TV account
iBooks: Official iBooks account
App Store: Official App Store account
iTunes Festival: Official iTunes festival account
Apple Evangelists
Jake Behrens: UI and App Frameworks Evangelist
Mike Stern: Apple User Experience Evangelist
Allan Schaffer: Graphics and Game Technologies Evangelist
Dave DeLong: App Frameworks and Developer Tools
John Geleynse: Director of Media Evangelism, Technology Evangelism
Stefan Lesser: Technology Evangelist
Apple pundits and analysts
Jim Dalrymple: Editor in Chief of LoopInsight
John Gruber: The man and mind behind Daring Fireball
Ross Rubin: Principal Analyst at Reticle Research focusing on consumer technologies
Andy Ihnatko: Chicago Sun-Times technology columnist
Clayton Morris: Anchor for FOX News Channel, technologist
Stephen Fry: Popular British Actor and Writer
MG Siegler: Partner @GoogleVentures. Columnist @TechCrunch
Apple Journalists
Dave Hamilton: @MacGeekGab podcaster, @MacObserver & BackBeat Media co-founder
Matthew Panzarino: Senior Editor, Techcrunch
John Paczkowski: Hails from AllThingsD
Rene Ritchie: iMore chief, producer at MobileNations and more
Arnold Kim: Manager of macrumors.com, toucharcade.com and appshopper.com
Jason Snell: Editorial director for @Macworld/@TechHive/@PCWorld
Glenn Fleishman: Editor & Publisher of The Magazine
Andrew Cunningham: Senior Products Specialist at Ars Technica
Jacqui Cheng: Editor at Large at Ars Technica
Peter Cohen: Managing editor, http://iMore.com , Executive editor, The Loop
Lex Friedman: Senior contributor to Macworld
Federico Viticci: Editor-in-Chief of @MacStoriesNet
Mark Gurman: Senior Editor at 9to5Mac
Christina Bonnington: Staff Writer for Wired's Gadget Lab blog
David Chartier: Contributor to Macworld and Mac Observer. Runs Finer Things in Tech
Developers
Matt Gemmell: iPhone, iPad and Mac developer
Daniel Jalkut: Founder of Red Sweater Software
Greg Pierce: Agile Tortoise
Justin Williams: Second Gear
Dave Barnard: Contrast (App Cubby) founder
Dan Counsell: RealMac founder
Michael Simmons: Co-Founder @Flexibits and @HockeyApp
Cabel Maxfield Sasser: co-founder of Panic Inc.
Steven Troughton-Smith: Irish indie developer of iOS, iPad and Mac software
Erica Sadun: Writer, Developer, Legend
Rich Siegel: Veteran Mac developer behind Bare Bones Software
Brett Terpstra: Marked developer, host of Systematic podcast
Craig Hockenberry: Twitteriffic developer
Jean MacDonald: Partner at @SmileSoftware
Marco Arment: Formerly of Tumblr, Instapaper, and The Magazine
Paul Haddad: Co-founder of Tapbots
Jailbreakers
Evad3rs: jailbreak dream team
pod2g: iOS security researcher, member of evad3rs
Nikias Bassen, "pimskeks": iOS Developer & Hacker, Reverse Engineer, Security Expert @evad3rs
Planetbeing: Jailbreak developer. Member of evad3rs
Will Strafach,"chronic": the man behind Chronic Unlocks
MuscleNerd: iPhone hacker
Grant Paul, "chpwn": Jailbreak developer now working at Facebook
Jay "Saurik" Freeman: Cydia founder
Humour
not Jonathan Ive: Parody account, NSFW
The Macalope: Part man, part Mac, part antelope. Great commentary on people who just don't understand Apple
Conan O'Brien: Often parodies Apple products and product launches
TUAW Team
TUAW: TUAW's main Twitter account
Victor Agreda, Jr: Editor in Chief
Dave Caolo: News and Managing Editor
Michael Rose: Lead Editor
Steve Sande: Features and Hardware Review Editor, TUAW TV Live host
Chris Rawson: News Editor, in charge of the weekly Rumor Roundup
Megan Lavey-Heaton: News Editor
Michael Grothaus: European Editor
Kelly Guimont: Social Coordinator & Talkcast Host
Erica Sadun: Writer, Developer, Legend
TJ Luoma:Writer and Community Liason
Mel Martin: Writer, App reviewer. Not on Twitter
Mike Wehner: Writer and Reviewer
Yoni Heiser: Writer
Ilene Hoffman: Writer
John-Michael Bond:Writer
Kelly Hodgkins: App Review Editor
