Foreign Policy's Twitterati 100

Twitter enables breaking news and  ideas to travel at the speed of your fingers. Here, in no particular order, are the 100 best Twitter users in international affairs.

BY FOREIGN POLICY | AUGUST 7, 2009

People:

Fareed Zakaria (@FareedGPSCNN)—Editor of Newsweek International and host of CNN’s GPS. His latest book, The Post-American World, is a New York Times bestseller.

Bill Easterly (@bill_easterly)—NYU economics professor and aid skeptic. Takes pride in being the 8th-most-famous person from Bowling Green, OH.

Juan Cole (@jricole)—President of the Global Americana Institute, professor of history at the University of Michigan, and Middle East politics blogger.

Evan Osnos (@eosnos)—Staff writer for The New Yorker. Former Beijing bureau chief and Middle East correspondent for The Chicago Tribune.

Nicholas Kristof (@nytimeskristof)—Columnist for the New York Times. Has traveled to every member of the Axis of Evil at least twice.

Joe Cirincione (@Cirincione)— President of the Ploughshares Fund, expert on nonproliferation issues and Washington National fanatic.

Lara Setrakian (@LaraABCNews)—Reporter for ABC News  with great access on Iran. Currently based in Dubai, UAE.

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Gideon Rachman (@gideonrachman)—Chief international politics commentator for the Financial Times.

Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman)—National security correspondent for The Washington Independent. Blogs on everything from Afghanistan policy to comic books to punk rock.

Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias)—D.C. blogosphere fixture now residing at the Center for American Progress.

Steve Clemons (@SCClemons)—Director of the New America Foundation’s American Strategy Program and a blogger at The Washington Note.

Mark Leon Goldberg (@MarkLGoldberg)—Blogger for the United Nations Foundation’s UN Dispatch, which covers the inner workings of Turtle Bay and Foggy Bottom.

Tom Barnett (@thomaspmbarnett)—Influential security expert, military consultant., and columnist.

Peter Daou (@peterdaou)—Political consultant and commentator. Former Internet advisor to Hillary Clinton’s campaigns.

Al Gore (@algore)—Former vice president. Tree hugger.

Nouriel Roubini (@Nouriel)—NYU professor of economics and international business. Prophet of Doom.

Dambisa Moyo (@dambisamoyo) Zambian-born economist and author of “Dead Aid.”

James Joyner (@drjjoyner)—Manging Editor of the Atlantic Council. Blogger at Outside the Beltway. Gulf War veteran.

Kaiser Kuo (@kaiserkuo)—American-raised blogger, dot-com entrepreneur and rock guitarist based in Beijing.

Boris Johnson (@MayorOfLOndon)—London’s outspoken and colorful mayor. Telegraph columnist

Barham Salih (@BarhamSalih)—The deputy prime minister of Iraq. Holds a doctorate in oceanography.

UN Secretary General (@secgen)—Unofficial feed showing Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon’s daily agenda.

Stephen Harper (@pmharper)—Prime minister of Canada. Prefers overtime to shootouts when breaking an ice hockey stalemate.

Matt Steinglass (@mattsteinglass)—Freelance reporter based in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Ranj Alaaldin (@RanjAlaaldin)—A political researcher and analyst specializing in the Middle East. A doctoral candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mina al Oraibi (@AlOraibi)—Reporter for the pan-Arab daily Asharq Alawsat.

Danny Ayalon (@DannyAyalon)—Deputy foreign minister of Israel.

Kevin Flower (@KevinFlowerCNN)—Middle East correspondent for CNN.

Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu)—Prime minister of Israel.

Bill Keller (@nytkeller)—Executive editor of the New York Times.

Nick Robinson (@bbcnickrobinson)—Political editor of the BBC.

Tim O’Brien (@TimOBrienNYT)—Sunday Business editor at the New York Times and mystery author.

Adm. Mike Mullen (@thejointstaff)—Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and highest-ranking officer in the U.S. military.

Vali Nasr (@vali_nasr) Iranian-American academic and professors at the Fletcher Shool at Tufts University

Anders Fogh Rasmussen (@AndersFoghR) Secretary General of NATO.

Hassan Abbas (@watandost) Fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center, former Pakistani Official, and author.

Alex Strick Van Linschoten (@strickvl) One of the only Western journalists living in Kandahar

Ashraf Ghani (@AshrafGhani) Chairman of the Institute of State Effectiveness. Former Afghan finance minister and presidential candidate.

Shmuel Rosner (@rosnersdomain) Editor and Columnist for the Jerusalem Post.

Tyler Cowen (@tylercowen)Professor of economics at George Mason University and pioneering econoblogger.

Rebecca MacKinnon (@rmack) Journalist and blogger focusing on China and technology.

Ethan Zuckerman (@ethanz) Director of the online news service Global Voices. 

Michael Yon (@michael_yon)

 

This list was compiled by Brian Fung, an editorial researcher at FP.

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ARGOS MEDIA

6:09 AM ET

August 10, 2009

Wrong Foreign Affairs Username

Hi. I was reviewing this extremely useful list when I noticied that the Foreign Affairs link points to a void account. The correct username is http://twitter.com/ForeignAffairs_. You might want to correct the link.

 

ARGOS MEDIA

6:33 AM ET

August 10, 2009

More corrections

CNN International Desk - correct link is http://twitter.com/CNNInternatDesk

Dispatches Mag - correct link is http://twitter.com/dispatches_mag