Top 20 Crowdsourcing Tweeps
Whether you’re a crowdsourcing critic or devotee, it’s worth hearing all the angles from the experts and from those who have built crowdsourcing business models. Check out the Top 20 Crowdsourcing Tweeps (experts and companies) to follow on Twitter below (in no particular order). Also, here are a few recent articles to hopefully spark even more debate — The Huffington Post’s Does Crowdsourcing Threaten Your Job (or Offer New Opportunity)?, Entrepreneur Magazine’s Crowdsourcing: Opportunity or Time Suck?, and Network World’s Could designer bras be a natural fit for crowdsourcing?.
- Jeff Howe, @crowdsourcing (coined term crowdsourcing, quiet this summer)
- LiveOps, @liveops
- Neil Robertson, @nielr1 (co: @Trada)
- John Winsor, @jtwinsor (co: @VictorsnSpoils)
- Ross Kimbarovsky, @rosskimbarovsky (co: @crowdspring)
- Dwayne Spradlin, @InnoCentiveCEO (co: @innocentive)
- Tim Thomas, @imstarboard (co: @localmotors)
- Community Roundtable, @jimstorer & @rhappe (co: @TheCR)
- 99 Designs, @99designs
- CrowdFlower, @crowdflower
- uTest, @uTest (shameless self plug
) - Chokha, @chokha
- Mike Martoccia, @mmartoccia
- Top Coder, @TCJim (co: @_TopCoder_)
- Threadless, @threadless
- Chaordix, @chaordix
- Peter Lamotte, @peterlamotte
- Genius Rocket, @GeniusRocket
- SmartSheet, @crowdwork & @mcolacurcio
- Tongal, @tongal
Update! Apologies for those I may have missed. Here are more recommendations straight from the community: @crowdsourcecap, @ArticleOne, @crowdsourcerisk, @fergusdyersmith, @OpenRunway, @crowdsourcery…
More can be found on our actual Crowdsourcing Twitter list. So, who do you follow on Twitter to find the best crowdsourcing advice and breaking news? Did I miss anyone? Please let us know in the comments and I’ll add them to the list.
Hey – Thanks for including 99designs.com!
Cheers,
Jason Aiken
99designs
Happy to, Jason! Thanks for your note!
hows about @fergusdyersmith from co wooshii
Hi James – That’s a good one. I’ve added Fergus to the post. Thanks again!
…you’re crowdsourcing crowdsourcing
Glad someone else was thinking that too! Great minds…
Thank you for this great list, Jennifer!
with best regards,
@Tandrushko
You are very welcome, Tatiana! Glad it was useful to you.
@crowdsourcery
new, but aims to be useful, goes in tandem with the crowdsourcery: crowdsourcing for marketing blog
Interesting. Thanks for the tip, Brian! I’ve added it to the post.