From Saudi activist Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani to controversial author Charles Murray to cutting-edge social media scholar danah boyd (yes, her name is lower-case), this year's Global Thinkers haven taken the Twittersphere by storm. There are still refuseniks-like political scientist Eliot Cohen ("Why make ourselves even more vapid than we already are?")-but more than 60 of this year's FP 100 are tweeters. Follow them here:
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1. Moncef Marzouki, for keeping the ideas of the Arab Spring alive: @Moncef_Marzouki
2. Sebastian Thrun, for revving up the robot-car revolution: @SebastianThrun
3. Bill Gates, for daring to imagine a better everything: @BillGates
4. Melinda Gates, for insisting on women's power to choose: @melindagates
5. Barack Obama, for redrawing America's global footprint: @BarackObama
Four more years. twitter.com/BarackObama/st…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 7, 2012
6. Paul Ryan, for doubling down on the debt crisis: @PaulRyanVP
7. Benjamin Netanyahu, for forcing the world to confront Iran's nuclear program: @netanyahu
8. Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, for shattering their glass cage with a love letter to freedom: @pussy_riot
9. Rima Dali, for insisting, against all odds, on a peaceful Syrian revolution: @rimadali
10. George Soros, for telling Europe the ugly truth: @georgesoros
11. Ai Weiwei, for turning his confinement into art-and protest: @aiww
12. Christine Lagarde, for investing in the Middle East when others would not: @Lagarde
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