Matt Cutts follows very few people on Twitter compared with most, and I’ve compiled a list of who he follows. Some of the people on this list are some of the most influential people on the Internet, especially in SEO circles. If you’re on this list and reading this post, then consider yourself a success. Congratulations.
| Who | What | |
| 1 | Biz Stone | Co-Founder of Twitter |
| 2 | Evan Williams | Co-Founder of Twitter |
| 3 | Christopher Sacca | Head of Special Initiatives at Google |
| 4 | Dave McClure | Too many startups to mention |
| 5 | Jason Calacanis | Entrepreneur – Started Mahalo.com |
| 6 | Justine Ezarik | Life Caster – Viral Video Creator |
| 7 | Robert Scoble | Video podcast pioneer and blogger |
| 8 | Andy Baio | Created upcoming.org |
| 9 | Suresh Sarasota | General SEO |
| 10 | Kevin Marks | Google Employee – Ex-Technorati |
| 11 | Sarah Austin | Video Journalist |
| 12 | Jeremy Zawodny | Ex-Yahoo! Employee |
| 13 | Tamar Weinberg | SEO / Social Media blogger |
| 14 | Joe Hunkins | Internet Entrepreneur |
| 15 | Steve Rubel | Blogger / CoolHunter |
| 16 | Chris Pirillo | Entrepreneur / Tech Guru |
| 17 | Adam Lasnik | Google’s first “Search Evangelist” |
| 18 | Gabe Rivera | Entrepreneur / Created Techmeme.com |
| 19 | Nick Wilson | Entrepreneur / Web3D Expert |
| 20 | Michael Gray | SEO / Social Media Expert |
| 21 | Danny Sullivan | SEO Pioneer / Guru |
| 22 | Rick Klau | Google Employee / Ex-Feedburner VP |
| 23 | Barry Schwartz | General SEO Person |
| 24 | David Sifry | CEO Technorati |
| 25 | Search Engine Land | SEO News Site |
| 26 | Neil Patel | Social Media Guru / SEO |
| 27 | Vanessa Fox | Ex-Google Employee / Search Expert |
| 28 | Jeremy Schoemaker | SEO / Entrepreneur |
| 29 | Jennifer Slegg | Adsense Guru / SEO |
| 30 | Sebastian X | SEO Expert |
| 31 | Riona MacNamara | Blogger |
| 32 | Todd Friesen | SEO Guru |
| 33 | Brian White | Google Employee -Webspam |
| 34 | John Andrews | SEO Expert |
| 35 | Dave Naylor | SEO Guru / Ex-Spammer |
| 36 | John Mueller | Software Engineer / SEO |
| 37 | Webmaster Radio FM | Webmaster Radio FM |
| 38 | Pedro Dias | Software Engineer |
| 39 | Robert Garcia (?) | SEO |
| 40 | Tony Adam | SEO Expert |
| 41 | Nathan Johns | Google Employee – Search Quality |
| 42 | Google OS | Unoffical Google Blog |
| 43 | Lisa Barone | Senior Writer @ Bruceclay inc |
| 44 | Susan Esparza | Senior Editor @ Bruceclay inc |
| 45 | Lorna Harris | Social Media Expert |
| 46 | Barbara Boser | Social Media Expert |
| 47 | Greg Boser | SEO Guru |
| 48 | Fireball | Unknown? |
I’ve created this table for people to see what Matt Cutts thinks is relevant and what is not. There’s so much noise on the internet, it’s hard to tell what the good stuff is. I’ve found several blogs that I’d never heard of, but they offered really good information.
There were a few people who I thought Matt Cutts would be following who were not on the list. The most surprising absentee was Aaron Wall from SEO Book.
Note: I don’t know many of the people on this list personally, and their descriptions may be slightly inaccurate. Also, many of these people have more than one website, whereas I’ve just listed one.
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It seems you just need to have CEO or SEO in your job title
It would have been cool if you had done this the week Matt adopted Twitter, when he only had 11 or so people on his follow list
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