Influencers 2015 | IoTGuide Documents

2015 was the fastest-pace year for IoT changes yet, and key influencers, new and old, helped those interested in IoT keep up with those changes. This list contains a cross-section of people, companies, and even scrapers that can be called the top influencers of the year.

	Twttr Foll.	Links
Cisco IoT Frequent tweeter on industry trends; runs #IoTChat every Wednesday.	35.3K
Stacey Higginbotham Originally at GigaOm and now at Fortune. Records the IoT Podcast	24.1K
Rob van Kranenburg Founder of Council and regular aggregator of key IoT content	~7,400
IoT Events List of worldwide IoT events, with tweets for individual event announcements.	11.2K
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino Designer, speaker and founder of the Good Night Lamp	12.1K
All The Internet Of Things Scours the web for content about the Internet of Things, posting links by the thousands	41.3K
Dana Blouin PhD candidate and IoT Vlogger.	57.8K
Xively Offers a connectivity platform, and tweets out industry news and items of interest	92.4K
Limor Ladyada Fried Key figure in the Maker community, enabling DIY, Arduino, Raspberry Pi and more	93.4K
Intel IoT Offers a connectivity platform, and tweets out industry news and items of interest	71.2K
Rob Tiffany Global Technology Lead in Microsoft's Incubation organization, building out their IoT business	14.7K
IBM IoT News and insights into IBM's IoT and cognitive computing efforts	35K
Atmel Microcontroller solutions provider with frequent, informative industry tweets	44.8K
Theo Priestley Forbes writer and keynote speaker tweets frequently about key IoT topics and news	~7,750
Wearable Tech & IoT WT VOX provides daily news on wearable tech, big data, digital health and more	47.4K
Right Relevance IoT Aggregates tweets from top IoT influencers (beta)	16.6K
Internet of Things Pulls together thousands of tweets and followers based on IoT content from around the web	39.5K
Jim Harris Popular speaker with an emphasis on eco issues. Tweets frequently but not exclusively on IoT topics	141K
Alicia Asín CEO of Libelium, with a dream of smart cities promoting democracy and transparency	~4,100
Industrial IoT Associated with Telefonica Innovation and tweets frequently to the #Innovation hashtag	~3,200

This page has a corresponding Twitter list. Inclusion on the list comes from a variety of factors, with an emphasis on Twitter visibility, frequency and focus on IoT (there are many extremely influential people who may tweet about IoT but don't focus on it).