Top 18 Women on Twitter To Follow Who Are Influential Passionate and Cool

On Twitter we are following some of the most influential, passionate and cool women in business. We wanted to share our 2009 Top 18 Women on Twitter personal suggestions you should check out and consider following on Twitter.

What they have to say (or tweet) about is of interest to me as a women business owner.  Their 140 characters or less Tweets motivate me to learn and grow which is the main reason they are on this list.  Not because they have a zillion followers!

Please comment on other women you recommend we add to the list.  The recommendation should be someone on Twitter you find to be influential, passionate or have really cool ideas.

Here is our list of the 2009 Top 18 Women on Twitter (in no particular order):

Top 18 Women on Twitter To Follow Who Are Influential Passionate and Cool Christiane Amanpour @AmanpourCNN Christiane Amanpour, CNN
Bio: Behind scenes look at international team that produces AMANPOUR – the 30-min interview show daily on CNNi and Sundays on CNN
Top 18 Women on Twitter To Follow Who Are Influential Passionate and Cool Beth Blecherman Twitter @techmama Beth Blecherman, Founder Techmamas.com
Bio: Social Media Strategist, Founder Techmamas.com, Co-Founder SVMomsGroup, Mom Tech/Gadget Blogger, past Sr.Manager-Deloitte, 2009 Nielson Power Mom
Top 18 Women on Twitter To Follow Who Are Influential Passionate and Cool Danah Boyd Twitter @Zephoria Danah Boyd, Social Media Scholar
Bio: social media scholar, youth researcher & advocate Microsoft Research, Harvard Berkman Center zephoria@zephoria.org
Top 18 Women on Twitter To Follow Who Are Influential Passionate and Cool Wendy Piersall Twitter @eMom Wendy Piersall, Serial Entrepreneur
Bio: Serial entrepreneur. Adorkable Web 2.0 lover. I get a little OCD about marketing. And dang passionate about business, tech & giving back.
Top 18 Women on Twitter To Follow Who Are Influential Passionate and Cool Tina Sharkey @BabyCenterMom Tina Sharkey, President of @BabyCenterMom
Bio: Global President and Chairman for BabyCenter based in San Francisco, CA. Mom of a five-year-old and eight-year-old boy.
Top 18 Women on Twitter To Follow Who Are Influential Passionate and Cool Ann Handley Twitter @MarketingProfs Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer
Bio: Head of content, editor, social media, marketing, great food, good wine, writer at www.annhandley.com
Top 18 Women on Twitter To Follow Who Are Influential Passionate and Cool Shaherose Charania Twitter @shaherose Shaherose Charania, Co-founder Women 2.0
Bio: Passionate about mobile 4 change: serve the under served, connect the unconnected + impact people in positive ways. Share my passion? Let’s chat, dabble, create.
Top 18 Women on Twitter To Follow Who Are Influential Passionate and Cool Marissa Mayer Twitter @marissamayer Marissa Mayer, Google VP
Bio: Search @ Google
Top 18 Women on Twitter To Follow Who Are Influential Passionate and Cool Lynn Terry Twitter @lynnterry Lynn Terry, Author of ClickNewz.com
Bio: Blogger, Affiliate Marketer, Internet Marketing Advisor. Author of ClickNewz.com
Top 18 Women on Twitter To Follow Who Are Influential Passionate and Cool Meg Hourihan Twitter @megnut Meg Hourihan, Blogger Co founder
Bio: Entrepreneur who’s currently between companies and enjoying family time.
Top 18 Women on Twitter To Follow Who Are Influential Passionate and Cool Meg Whitman Twitter @Whitman2010 Meg Whitman, Former CEO of eBay
Bio: Together, let’s build A New California by creating jobs, lowering taxes and increasing prosperity.
Top 18 Women on Twitter To Follow Who Are Influential Passionate and Cool Sally Strebel Twitter @BizGirl Sally Strebel, Co-founder of @Page.ly
Bio: CEO of BestPartyEver.com. Co-founder of @Page.ly. I value relationships and finding the win/win. PS. If you’re crazy..go sell it elsewhere.
Top 18 Women on Twitter To Follow Who Are Influential Passionate and Cool Jennifer Leggio Twitter @mediaphyter Jennifer Leggio ZDNet Social Business Blogger
Bio: ZDNet social business blogger + Fortinet strategic communications director + Security Twits herder emeritus + hockey fan (I represent only me with my tweets)
Top 18 Women on Twitter To Follow Who Are Influential Passionate and Cool Veronica Belmont Twitter @Veronica Veronica Belmont, Host of Tekzilla
Bio: Host of Tekzilla on Revision3 and Qore on PSN. Also, a geek.
Top 18 Women on Twitter To Follow Who Are Influential Passionate and Cool Tina Seelig Twitter @tseelig Tina Seelig, Stanford University
Bio: Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Educator, Author: What I Wish I Knew When 20
Top 18 Women on Twitter To Follow Who Are Influential Passionate and Cool Caterina Fake Twitter @Caterina Caterina Fake, Flickr Co-Founder
Bio: Cofounder of Flickr and Hunch
Top 18 Women on Twitter To Follow Who Are Influential Passionate and Cool Aliza Sherman Twitter @alizasherman Aliza Sherman, Social Media Thought Leader
Bio: Founder Cybergrrl/Webgrrls Intl, Web pioneer, social media thought leader. 1st online: ’87; marketed & built community online: ’92; writing about Web: ’95
Top 18 Women on Twitter To Follow Who Are Influential Passionate and Cool Charlene Li Twitter @charleneli Charlene Li, Co-author of Groundswell
Bio: Co-author of Groundswell, thought leader on emerging technologies

Who have we forgotten that you follow on Twitter? Comment and let us know. We will post updates via Twitter so make sure you follow @Little Butterfly Kiss

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  • Jay Feitlinger

    Hey, what about the Men?  :-)   Just kidding.  Great list and will definitely be following a few of these people.

  • Leslie

    I love @designmom!!

  • http://www.techmamas.com TechMama (Beth Blecherman)

    Great to also follow inspiring business women such as yourself. Thanks for including me in your list!

  • Melissa Dougan

    Love this list and thanks so much for posting.  I was already following 3 of the people so glad to see that I was on the right track.

    Another person that I follow that you should consider adding to your list is Jenn Van Grove at http://twitter.com/JBRUIN.  She is an editor with Mashable which is a site I love that gives me great advice and ideas.
     
     

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