Who are the most influential Java people in the Twittersphere? After analyzing thousands of accounts, we created a list of people that every Java enthusiast or pro should be following.

All influential people have something in common: they can spread ideas faster and better than anyone else. We are aware that following these people has a handful of perks, including staying on top of the latest news and trends. Therefore, we decided to concoct a list of Twitter accounts all Java fans should follow. The analysis ranks the top accounts in accordance with their social influence, although interestingly enough, not all household names of Java evangelists are on the list. Nevertheless, we are very proud of the list that we came up with.

Congratulations to all influencers who made it into our Top 20 list. Click on each username to visit their Twitter accounts or the list on twitter. Below our detailed list, you find our Methodology and insights how we created the ranking.

1. Martin Fowler @martinfowler

Programmer, Loud Mouth, ThoughtWorker. Klout score: 90 Moz score: 74 Total score: 164 Programmer, Loud Mouth, ThoughtWorker.

2. Quentin Adam @waxce

CEO @clever_cloud Klout score: 70 Moz score: 71 Total score: 140 CEO @clever_cloud

3. Thorsten Heller @ThoHeller

Co-Founder &Über-Geek at @greenbirdIT Klout score: 68 Moz score: 70 Total score: 138 Co-Founder &Über-Geek at @greenbirdIT

4. Bruno Borges @brunoborges

Brazilian, Cloud Product Manager at Oracle Klout score: 67 Moz score: 71 Total score: 137 Brazilian, Cloud Product Manager at Oracle

5. Markus Eisele @myfear

Head of Developer Advocacy at Lightbend Klout score: 69 Moz score: 66 Total score: 135 Head of Developer Advocacy at Lightbend

6. Arun Gupta @arungupta Klout score: 65 Moz score: 70 Total score: 134

7. Josh Long @starbuxman

Spring Advocate @Pivotal Klout score: 64 Moz score: 69 Total score: 133 Spring Advocate @Pivotal

8. James Governor @monkchips

Redmonk co-founder, Optimist and Developer Advocate. Klout score: 68 Moz score: 64 Total score: 132 Redmonk co-founder, Optimist and Developer Advocate.

9. Vlad Mihalcea@vlad_mihalcea

CEO at Hypersistence Klout score: 57 Moz score: 74 Total score: 130 CEO at Hypersistence

10. Lukas Eder @lukaseder

Minister of bringing sanity back to Java Klout score: 62 Moz score: 68 Total score: 130 Minister of bringing sanity back to Java

11. Baruch Sadogursky @jbaruch

Developer Advocate of JFrog Klout score: 65 Moz score: 65 Total score: 130 Developer Advocate of JFrog

12. Mario Fusco @mariofusco

RedHatter, Drools Developer, Java Champion Klout score: 63 Moz score: 67 Total score: 129 RedHatter, Drools Developer, Java Champion

13. Marcus Biel @MarcusBiel

Software Craftsman, JCP member, CleanCode Evangelist Klout score: 61 Moz score: 68 Total score: 128 Software Craftsman, JCP member, CleanCode Evangelist

14. Oliver Gierke @olivergierke

Spring Data Project Lead Pivotal Klout score: 60 Moz score: 65 Total score: 126 Spring Data Project Lead Pivotal

15. Joshua Bloch @joshbloch

Effective Java author, API Designer Klout score: 62 Moz score: 67 Total score: 128 Effective Java author, API Designer

16. Jake Wharton @JakeWharton

Android Engineer at Square Inc. Klout score: 61 Moz score: 67 Total score: 127 Android Engineer at Square Inc.

17. Brian Goetz @BrianGoetz

Java Language Architect at Oracle. Klout score: 60 Moz score: 61 Total score: 122 Java Language Architect at Oracle.

18. Trisha Gee @trisha_gee

Coder / Blogger / Speaker / Working for JetBrains Klout score: 65 Moz score: 62 Total score: 126 Coder / Blogger / Speaker / Working for JetBrains

19. Jessica Kerr @jessitron

Developer @Atomist, Panelist @greaterthancode Klout score: 58 Moz score: 68 Total score: 125 Developer @Atomist, Panelist @greaterthancode

20. Dion Almaer @dalmaer

Technologist, Product engineer, Googler Klout score: 61 Moz score: 65 Total score: 125 Technologist, Product engineer, Googler

METHODOLOGY

We first generated a list of twenty thousand Java-related Twitter accounts (including all accounts that contain the keyword Java in their bio or in any of their tweets.)

To score the account and rank them accordingly, we analyzed their social authority and reach using two key metrics: MozRank and Klout.

Moz Social Authority Score: Social Authority score is composed of:

The retweet rate of users’ last few hundred tweets. The recency of those tweets. A retweet-based model trained on user profile data.

Visit this MOZ blog post for more in-depth information.

Klout Score: Klout uses more than 400 signals from eight different networks to update the Klout Score daily. It’s mainly based on the ratio of reactions a user generates compared to the amount of content he shares. Read more at the Klout score blog.

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Rank increased compared to last year’s list.