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
13. Recep Tayyip Erdogan: @RT_Erdogan
14. Ahmet Davutoglu, for leading from the front: @Ahmet_Davutoglu
15. Willem Buiter, for warning of the Grexit: @whb1002
16. Elon Musk, for putting his money where his mind is: @elonmusk
17. Marissa Mayer, for having it all: @marissamayer
My first full day back in the office, and I'm excited to kick it off by announcing my new COO, Henrique de Castro: businesswire.com/news/home/2012…
— marissamayer (@marissamayer) October 15, 2012
18. Sheryl Sandberg, for having it all: @sherylsandberg
19. Anne-Marie Slaughter, for arguing that women can't have it all-and explaining why we'd be better off admitting it: @SlaughterAM
20. Salman Rushdie, for defending free speech as if his life, and ours, depended on it: @SalmanRushdie
21. Paul Krugman, for wielding his acid pen against austerity: @NYTimeskrugman
22. Nouriel Roubini, for being not just gloomy, but right: @Nouriel
23. Shai Reshef, for giving the world a shot at the Ivy League: @ShaiReshef
24. Daphne Koller, for working to make education a human right: @DaphneKoller
25. Elizabeth Cheney, for keeping the neocon flame alive: @Liz_Cheney
26. Condoleezza Rice, for updating Rockefeller realism for the Tea Party era: @CondoleezzaRice
27. Eugene Kaspersky, for decoding the secrets of cyberwar: @e_kaspersky
28. Charles Murray, for showing that conservatives have no monopoly on family values: @charlesmurray
29. Alexey Navalny, for finding the Kremlin's weak spot: @navalny
30. Mohammad Al-Qahtani, for putting Saudi Arabia on trial: @MFQahtani
31. Maryam Al-Khawaja, Zainab Al-Khawaja, and Nabeel Rajab, for insisting that free speech is a right, no matter where you live: @MARYAMALKHAWAJA, @angryarabiya, @NABEELRAJAB
@jessisreading80 you can show ur support for the ppl of #Bahrain with a letter a picture or organizing a protest
— angry arabiya (@angryarabiya) November 12, 2012
32. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, for showing Africa how to break the resource curse: @NOIweala
33. Jameel Jaffer, for insisting that assassination is not an American value: @JameelJaffer
34. Bjorn Lomborg, for taking the black and white out of climate politics: @BjornLomborg
35. Husain Haqqani and Farahnaz Ispahani, for pushing tough love for their troubled country: @husainhaqqani, @fisphani
36. Kiyoshi Kurokawa, for daring to tell a complacent country that groupthink can kill: @kiyoshikurokawa
37. Alexander Macgillivray, for defending free speech in the Twitter era: @amac
38. Yevgenia Chirikova, for outsmarting Vladimir Putin, one tree at a time: @4irikova
39. Rand Paul, for telling America to come home: @SenRandPaul
40. Nitish Kumar, for turning around India's poorest state: @NitishKumar51
41. Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson, for making the web safe for whistleblowers: @RogerDingledine, @nickm_tor
42. Patrice Martin and Jocely Wyatt, for redesigning the war on poverty: @patricemrtn, @jocelynw
43. Robert D. Kaplan, for putting geography back on the map: @RobertDKaplan
44. Kai-Fu Lee, for building the new Chinese Internet: @kaifulee
Citron acknowledges all but one of my accusations about their report: citronresearch.com .My response to them: xueqiu.com/5982000457/221…
— Kai-Fu Lee (@kaifulee) August 30, 2012
45. Beth Noveck, for demanding open government, then creating it: @bethnoveck
46. Radoslaw Sikorski, for telling the truth, even when it's not diplomatic: @sikorskiradek
47. Tariq Ramadan, for telling us that Islam and democracy can go together-just when it matters: @tariqramadan
48. Ricken Patel, for proving web activism doesn't have to begin and end with a click: @Ricken_Patel
49. Vivek Wadhwa, for a fresh idea in the U.S. immigration debate: @wadhwa
50. Danah Boyd, for showing us that Big Data isn't necessarily better data: @zephoria
51. Jonathan Zittrain, for starting down the Internet's enemies: @zittrain
52. Luigi Zingales, for remdining us what conservative economics used to look like: @zingales
53. Viviane Reding, for demanding that Europe's women have a seat at the table: @VivianeRedingEU
54. Jonathan Haidt, for revealing the psychology of partisanship: @JonHaidt
55. Peter Beinart, for diagnosing the "crisis of Zionism": @PeterBeinart
56. Sana Saleem, for insisting that free speech is not blasphemy: @sanasaleem
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