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Cosmic 140 The 140 most influential users, their #name #handle #category #influence #activity, when they first started and what they first said

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12/7/2009 Eric Schmidt 96 @ericschmidt | 0.2 CNN GPS with Fareed Zakaria on Nov 29th, starts around minute 17; Fareed is a very good interviewer http://bit.ly/6GwGjn

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124 Kai-Fu Lee @kaifulee | 0.9 Creating my new account on tweeter 3/18/2009 Gary Hustwit @gary_hustwit | 1.7 my first tweet! and already, limitations. i wanted "hustwitter" as my username, no dice. and someone already has garyhustwit... what gives? 7/21/2009 138 Marissa Mayer 114 @marissamayer | 0.6 Discovered the American Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore 2/26/2009 -- extremely cool in terms of art and its philosophies (http://www.avam.org/) 3/9/2009 1/22/2009 @google | 3.3 Pentagram Design 12/24/2008 @pentagramdesign | 1.9 Erik Spiekermann 133 I'm 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 @espiekermann | 3.3 Jason Pollock 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010 T Signs of the Times: 121 e at the office with more on my @Jason_Pollock | 38 13 c Signs fundraising event."/> DJ Stout and his team at Pentagram 95 7/10/2009 h Austin invite you to jo.. http://tinyurl.com/aoogtr list than i can hope to do I'm going to get food for a festive holiday dinner tonight. Check out n 137 Fake Steve o 118 the trailer for my film at... http://www.TheYoungestCandidate.com l @fsjblog | 1.6 o 1/29/2009 g Dear Eric: You're dead to me: Tag him and bag him, boys, y AIGA because Squirrel Boy is finished around here. I calle.. @AIGAdesign | 1.2 http://bit.ly/bPIx9 Apologies for the technical difficulties at 10/29/2007 www.aiga.org over the past few days… we are John Boardley working on it and will have it resolved soon. 102 @ilovetypography | 9.6 just started twittering... 8/5/2008 Smashing Magazine 7/25/2009 @smashingmag | 13 Todd McFarlane New post on Smashing Magazine - Fervens: A Free 123 35 Wordpress Theme, http://tinyurl.com/5epr7c @Todd_McFarlane | 1 Tyrese what did you do? This is a new world to me. Can anyone walk me through this twitter thing?

ls a 11/27/2008 tu Yoko Ono c 7/22/2009 le @yokoono | 2.8 l Alain de Botton dancing te 42 n @alaindebotton | 0.8 I If you believe that those at the top merit their 7/13/2008 success you have to believe that those at the bottom are worthy of their failures. John Maeda 120 61 @johnmaeda | 1.7 134 working 2/22/2010 128 3/8/2008 Dalai Lama Luke Wroblewski @DalaiLama | 2 @lukewdesign | 3.3 His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Los Angeles - 21 February 2010 At Moonshine. Getting beer pressure from all. http://bit.ly/cRGXyr

98 11/4/2007 58 Jason Sweeney 2/7/2008 10/20/2009 @sween | 4.5 Lying on my side, spooning a cat, hoping Noel doesn't knock out our power. @cshirky | 2.1 Fake AP Stylebook Loving having an actual copy of my book on my @FakeAPStylebook | 6.1 desk -- no more galleys! All television show names should bear the 'Spanish exclamations.' ¡CSI: Miami! and ¡Taxicab 104 Confessions!, but not ¡Jeopardy!! 7/24/2008 3/17/2007 Deepak Chopra 12/21/2007 @DeepakChopra | 13 62 Wired In Washington DC @WIRED | 4 8/5/2007 115 @lessig | 0.9 Wired News: Top Stories: Dems 7/19/2008 135 3/4/2007 Tim O’Reilly waiting for joi 7/11/2007 Want Answers Gonzales @timoreilly | 11 TED 3/3/2008 Tim Siedell 91 Marco Marcello Lupoi http://tinyurl.com/2bkvqu 54 Kim Stanley Robinson's session on @tedtalks | 0.9 @badbanana | 11 125 Paul Carr @mlupoi | 2.9 3/19/2007 capitalism vs. socialism in science policy at TEDTalks feed! 107 @paulcarr | 13 Wondering where the time Watching UN POSTO AL SOLE 126 Science Foo Camp at Google. 2/13/2009 Liveblogging (alljustwords.com) from GSP having just Tina Roth Eisenberg 113 went. Pondering sleep. 10/22/2009 episodes from last week, getting 12/20/2007 signed up to Twitter against my better judgement. @swissmiss | 2.9 ready for bed. Trying to get my ladies to twitter! NASA @finkd | 0.05 Tim Berners-Lee 4/13/2007 | 0.6 109 @ | 9.2 @ooontz I knew you'd be under ditka @timberners_lee 3/11/2007 36 Daisuke Tsuda Ooops confusing user interfxce. And no 140 33 Apollo 17: Thirty-five years ago this week on Dec 129 Doug Bowman @tsuda | 13 phones on on stage with radiomikes. 76 http://tinyurl.com/2h2g26 @stop | 1.4 81 ようやく使い方がわかった！ mellowing at the Driskill. my lord there's 3/10/2007 4/11/2007 3/16/2007 a lot of people at sxsw this year. 7/30/2008 89 Danny Sullivan 52 3/9/2007 @dannysullivan | 12 Dan Kogai Adam Savage Jason Kottke @dankogai | 7.9 @jkottke | 1.1 working too late @donttrythis | 4.5 Jared M. Spool 130 12/1/2006 112 Just started twitter. Finally caving to Twitter. Still no MySpace though. About to test the shinymess of mud. @jmspool 5/24/2007 Signing up for twitter! John Gruber 3/7/2007 10/9/2008 @gruber | 6.1 111 4/14/2007 106 92 Giving the boy a bath. Techmeme Stephen Fry @warrenellis | 8.5 12/12/2006 Richard MacManus @stephenfry | 10 @Techmeme | 18 12/15/2007 16 checking account validity Jason Santa Maria OpenID - You can now use your @rww | 9.8 Hello Twitterers. I'm About to fly to Africa for a new @jasonsantamaria | 2.9 wondering why the heck someone else has the 2/18/2010 117 WordPress.com as an OpenID. 69 Loic Le Meur project and will be tweeting whilst I'm filming. 'readwriteweb' twitter username. Damn squatters. 20 12/12/2006 Trying to wake up. (WordPress.com) http://tinyurl.com/2be4ur @loic | 31 Conan O’Brien [seesmic] le bon mot de passe - http://seesmic.com/9iruWPRk59 @ConanOBrien | 1.2 Jeffrey Zeldman @zeldman | 7.1 100 Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then 4/26/2007 11/20/2006 scratching 3/16/2007 threw to commercial. Somebody help me. Paulo Coelho Robert Scoble @paulocoelho | 4.7 46 @scobleizer | 26 Pete Cashmore @mashable | 21 9/3/2009 ..un regalo de un amigo y seguidor.. I'm going home to Half Moon Bay. http://www.paulocoelhoblog.com/ Del.icio.us Tag Descriptions - Very Meta Rachel Maddow 7/15/2006 99 5 ( http://tinyurl.com/ypttw4 ) @maddow | 2.6 40 8/27/2007 Got nothing done today. Have spent the entire Om Malik 77 3/15/2007 30 day obsessed with this (pdf): http://is.gd/2QNIw @om | 7.8 51 2/8/2007 Guy Kawasaki Looking 4 food 82 @GuyKawasaki | 51 101 88 Major Nelson Chris Pirillo @majornelson | 9.2 Just created a better Twitter name @chrispirillo | 13 5/5/2009 4/17/2009 Wondering why people want to know what I am doing. 7/15/2006 I've been twitterpated? Michael Arrington Oprah Winfrey Jason Calacanis @arrington | 12 @Oprah | 0.3 10 @Jason | 12 68 1/18/2007 41 woohoo. A Twitter account of my very own, unbound by HI . THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING 110 Listening to the old tycho album. the corporate policy chains of TechCrunch. Freedom! REALLY 21st CENTURY. 3/21/2006 3/7/2007 Kevin Rose 84 2/13/2007 @kevinrose | 3.6 TechCrunch Joshua Allen 80 Drinking tea @ work 18 @TechCrunch | 14 6/18/2009 78 59 @biz | 2.6 7/18/2006 8/7/2008 @fireland | 0.6 just setting up my twttr Blogging! Priyanka Chopra When I go into the office bathroom and someone is going #2 Scott Beale 106 Digg priyankachopra | 10 while I only have to go #1 ... I feel superior 11/21/2006 3/21/2006 @laughingsquid | 8.2 @digg_2000 | 11 3/10/2009 Testing... 123... tweeking twtta 3/5/2007 Veronica Belmont Jack Dorsey 8/2/2007 "John McCain Has 61 Major Flip-Flops: Here Are All of Them!" - http://tinyurl.com/5gmjgo Ellen DeGeneres @Veronica | 4.7 136 t @jack | 4.8 Reddit @TheEllenShow | 4.3 6 Guardian Tech n Gah! Will today never end?! just setting up my twttr 60 @reddit e Tis my first twitt-er. Or tweet? Twit? Or tweet? @guardiantech | 15 traveling through time

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t @nytimes | 39 73 r Jonathan Ross Evan Williams Without Health Benefits, a Good Life 74 e Dave McClure t @ev | 3.5 @Wossy | 22 5/7/2008 @davemcclure | 7.5 Turns Fragile http://shurl.org/bVmbZ n 3/14/2007 12 Getting to know twitter just setting up my twttr E 29 Dinner in san mateo. @ThatKevinSmith | 11 Wil Wheaton (shabu shabu) 34 1/2/2007 7/11/2007 Showing my flick to some fresh eyes, @wilw | 7.9 3/21/2006 backing up laptop. Trying to figure out if I signed up with 'wilwheaton' to prevent Start twttr(beta) CNN Breaking News BBC Click some jerk from stealing it, or if some jerk already stole it. @cnnbrk @BBCClick | 0.8 1/16/2009 50 75 testing Ashton Kutcher 3 BBC Click is looking 4 Twitter users. if available on the 17July for 7 an intw and in , email [email protected] 4 more info! @aplusk | 12 4/1/2007 dropping my first tweet Wall Street Journal 45 3/20/2007 @wsj | 15 Sega, Nintendo to Make Olympics-Themed Game 4/24/2008 Top News 70 @Reuters http://tinyurl.com/3xkz6l Huffington Post Russia hunts missing after mine blast kills 106 @huffingtonpost | 45 http://tinyurl.com/2bd49t Toby Barlow: It doesn't actually take a genius to notice the sun does it? 10/24/2006 1/26/2009 7/21/2006 44 http://tinyurl.com/68soxe Demi Moore Public Launch Chris Brogan @chrisbrogan | 51 27 mrskutcher | 8.8 47 I'm writing content for Video on the trying to figure this twitter deal out! Net and chatting with Julien Smith. 5/3/2007 132 NPR Politics 1/24/2007 3/27/2009 12/19/2006 @nprpolitics | 11 97 Alyssa Milano 28 Jeremiah Owyang Joi Ito No religion with your stamps 87 @Joi | 3.9 http://tinyurl.com/ytnv9v @alyssa_milano | 23 10/2006 @jowyang | 17 Starting Twitter... 5/6/2008 this is my official twitter! 1/28/2009 Obvious Corp. founded Surfing the web Rainn Wilson 108 Drudge Report 25 @rainnwilson | 7.5 3/27/2008 @Drudge_Report | 39 Rainn Wilson. Reporting for duty. 4/30/2007 AP: More than 3.5 million new voters... Lady Gaga http://tinyurl.com/4zdhk8 @ladygaga | 0.4 Natalie 3/12/2007 131 @natalie_mu | 19 3/21/2009 op rehearsing for my video just dance and am now at wmc to perform Fred Wilson 23 ダウンタウンの松本人志が監督・主演を務める話題の映画「大日 at the Armani and nervous records party. But I am no nervous record! ... 2007 @fredwilson | 5.6 48 Kim Kardashian 本人」の音楽をTOWA TEIが担当していることが明らかになった。 3/18/2007 10/9/2007 @KimKardashian | 9.7 1/22/2009 trying twitter

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Perez Hilton @foxnews | 131 @sixtus | 6.6 There are a few fakes so just know this is the real me!!! w

@PerezHilton | 48 NATIONAL: Confederate Flag Hanging From Noose Testing Twitter... (check, one, two, check, beeeeeep) 8/4/2008 17 s Hi! This is the real me bitches. I'm not on MySpace or Stays on Display http://tinyurl.com/257kuo The Economist but I decided to start Twittering. Yee Haw! 86 90 139 103 @TheEconomist | 4 3/2007 7/2/2007 Green.view: Green genes: The shameful destruction of a crop 3/17/2009 24 Twitter dominates SXSW trialALMOST ten years ago, a jury acquit.. http://tinyurl.com/5qxdyd JetBlue Airways 1/30/2008 Paris Hilton 79 @JetBlue | 2.3 5/19/2008 @ParisHilton | 11 Woo-hoo! I am the official airline of Alan Murray @alansmurray | 5.6 Jay Rosen in Vegas at the Hard 4 Springfield! Aye carumba! Rock with my Prince... 9/22/2008 116 I'm not getting my updates @jayrosen_nyu | 17 12/6/2008 Setting up my Twitter Britney Spears 5/23/2007 Taylor Swift 1 account to see if I like it. @britneyspears | 0.7 4/29/2007 @taylorswift13 | 1.1 Welcome to Britney Spears' Twitter! Follow the latest in Britney Sascha Lobo apologizing to a very needy cat for being gone so long. news and get updates straight from Britney and her entourage. @saschalobo | 4 Prokrastinieren. @BarackObama | 0.6 37 6/25/2008 8 "Thinking we're only one signature Anderson Cooper away from ending the war in Iraq. @andersoncooper | 13 Learn more at http://www.barackobama.com" Erica’s News Note: What a long strange trip 49 72 http://tinyurl.com/67f3ef 1/28/2009 31 Mariah Carey @MariahCarey | 1.7 Welcome to Mariah’s Official Twitter Page! 8/19/2008 4/29/2008 Bookmark http://twitter.com/MariahHBF and feel Trent Reznor MC Hammer free to write back to @MariahHBF about Miss M! 0.9 | @trent_reznor @MCHammer | 12 65 boring night...my controller must have been broken...every channel had 1/30/2009 11 hanging on the bus some preacher name Rev. Wright..I think he's running for President?? John Mayer @johncmayer | 7.5 Finding The Perfect Fuzz Sound. If You do it right, it 3/8/2008 sounds like breath swirling around in a saxophone. Cool. Tony Hsieh 32 @zappos | 2.8 21 2008 Hello zappos people at SXSW. Please twitter 12/19/2008 "follow zappos" to follow me. -Tony 50 Cent @50cent | 1.1 15 is in Turkey 3/4/2008 1/23/2008 1/13/2009 122 The Onion Coldplay Arnold Schwarzenegger 64 5/22/2008 @TheOnion | 5.7 @Schwarzenegger | 1 57 @coldplay | 1.4 Real Madrid The Onion reluctantly expands its Inter-net Going to take part in a Q & A at the CA Newspaper Publishers Assn. The official Coldplay twitter (with the official Coldplay 53 presence via Face-book. Damn the lot of

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127 Lance Armstrong 12/23/2008 @lancearmstrong | 8.6 Michael Jordan Just finished a speech here in for a 22 @michaeljordan | 0.3 company called Teradata. 3000 folks in the audience 11/6/2008 55 drinking oj and mountaindew 94 on an early vegas am. Bout to ride now! 12/30/2008 Al Gore 7/17/2009 @algore | 0.3 Kazuyo Katsuma MLB Just signed up for Twitter. Please check out

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u Twitter page! Use it to post tweets and I suggest からの飛行機が2時間遅れて、疲れました。 M Kohmi Hirose 85 4/28/2009 @kohmi | 41 http://is.gd for short URLs. Go MLBlogs! 1/9/2009 twitter初挑戦中です。 56 Jack Welch @jack_welch | 1.7 2/25/2009 66 Karl Rove 2009 @KarlRove | 4.3 So here I go. @suzywelch and our kids have browbeaten Tony Hawk Check out my Op-Ed in the Wall Street me into 2009. Hello Twitter world! Yikes. @tonyhawk | 7 Journal...http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1231372205 43 up with Kady, watching Yo Gabba Gabba, trying to 50562585.html get over this strange Fijian flu I picked up so I can skate. 6/5/2009 1/23/2009 83 Takafumi Horie John McCain @takapon_jp | 11 @SenJohnMcCain | 2.5 ついったーはじめました。昼飯なんにしようか・・・ I am working in my office on Capitol Hill today.

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