A list of influential Data Scientists on Twitter

• Hilary Mason, @hmason:
  Data Scientist in Residence at @accel. Bitly.


• John Myles White, @johnmyleswhite:
  Scientist at Facebook and Julia developer. Author of Machine Learning for Hackers and Bandit Algorithms for Website Optimization


• Peter Skomoroch, @peteskomoroch:
  Entrepreneur, ex Principal Data Scientist @LinkedIn.


• Ryan Rosario, @DataJunkie:
  Machine Learning Engineer at Facebook: statistician & computer scientist. Natural language processing, network analysis, modeling.


• DJ Patil, @dpatil:
  Formerly at LinkedIn and Greylock. Now building products at RelateIQ.


• Monica Rogati, @mrogati:
  Data @ Jawbone. Turned data into stories & products at LinkedIn. Text mining, applied machine learning, recommender systems.


• Ben Lorica, @bigdata:
  Chief Data Scientist @OReillyMedia. Program Development Director, @strataconf.


• Oliver Grisel, @ogrisel:
  Datageek, engineer @Parietal_INRIA, contributor to scikit-learn, works with Python, Spark, Pig, interested in Machine Learning, NLProc, {Big|Linked|Open} Data.


• Gregory Piatetsky, @kdnuggets:
  KDnuggets Editor, Analytics/Big Data/Data Mining/Data Science expert.


• David Smith, @revodavid:
  Blogger, R evangelist and Chief Community Officer at Revolution Analytics


• John Foreman, @John4man:
  Chief Data Scientist @MailChimp.


• Drew Conway, @drewconway:
  Scientist in Residence at IA Ventures, Co-Founder of DataKind and DataGotham


• Jake Porway, @jakeporway:
  Director at DataKind.


• Jeff Hammerbacher, @hackingdata:
  Cloudera, previously Facebook Data Team. Coined the term Data Scientist with DJ Patil.


• Josh Wills, @josh_wills:
  @Cloudera Data Scientist, VP of Apache Crunch.


• Amy Heineke, @aheineike:
  Director of Mathematics @Quidlabs.


• Andrew Ng, @AndrewYNg:
  Co-Founder of Coursera; Director of Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab.


• Sebastian Thrun, @SebastianThrun:
  CEO Udacity, Research professor at Stanford, Google Fellow, member of National Academy of Engineering, serial entrepreneur.


• Jen Lowe, @datatelling:
  Data and visualization scientist. Conducts research at Columbia University’s Spatial Information Design Lab.


• Doug Cutting, @cutting:
  Converted Nutch to Hadoop. Currently is the Chief Scientist at Cloudera.


• Kirk Borne, @KirkDBorne:
  PhD Data Scientist Astrophysicist, Top BigData Influencer. Passions: Data Science, Data Mining, Astroinformatics, Citizen Science