Influencers 2016 | IoTGuide Documents

For influencers, 2016 can be classified as "Revenge of the Corporates." The IoT initiatives of large ventures such as Intel, Cisco and Microsoft surged to most of the top influencer positions, displacing many of the individuals who have been passionate IoT promoters from the start.

	Twttr Foll.	Links
Intel IoT Offers a connectivity platform, and tweets out industry news and items of interest	95K
Cisco IoT Frequent tweeter on industry trends; runs #IoTChat every Wednesday.	58.7K
Arduino An open-source platform for Makers and hardware enthusiasts, forming a passionate community.	214K
Xively Offers a connectivity platform, and tweets out industry news and items of interest	92.9K
IBM IoT News and insights into IBM's IoT and cognitive computing efforts	61.8K
Limor Ladyada Fried Key figure in the Maker community, enabling DIY, Arduino, Raspberry Pi and more	117K
Microsoft IoT Generally about implementations of MSFT technology, including Azure IoT Suite and Win10 IoT Core.	35.4K
Atmel Microcontroller solutions provider with frequent, informative industry tweets	52.6K
All The Internet Of Things Scours the web for content about the Internet of Things, posting links by the thousands	72.1K
Stacey Higginbotham A journalist covering technology since 2001; Records the IoT Podcast	30K
Dana Blouin PhD candidate and IoT Vlogger.	53.2K
Wearable Tech & IoT WT VOX provides daily news on wearable tech, big data, digital health and more	52.2K
ARM Community Presents information and news about the ARM ecosystem and IoT in general.	31.9K
Rob Tiffany CTO, Lumada IoT at Hitachi, formerly at Microsoft and rated a top IoT expert.	21K
Android Wear Google's extension of the Android platform into wearable technology.	72.1K
Samsung IoT Samsung's IoT efforts center around the ARTIK platform and ecosystem, joining hardware and cloud services.	39.6K
Right Relevance IoT Aggregates tweets from top IoT influencers.	22.9K
IoT Events List of worldwide IoT events, with tweets for individual event announcements.	19K
SAP IoT Presents regular IoT industry content in addition to information about SAP's IoT initiatives.	11.7K
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino Designer, speaker and founder of the Good Night Lamp	15.3K

This page has a corresponding Twitter list on @IoTGuide. 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 often tweet about IoT but don't focus on it). The minimum for inclusion was 10K Twitter followers.