BusinessWeek is reporting on over 50 CEO’s that are using Twitter to some degree or another. Last August the magazine covered just 18 folks of this ilk but apparently there is a lot more to choose from these days.
Each CEO has a profile attached to them that gives their handle as well some some insight as to view of Twitter and who they follow but here are some of the basic stats that may be of interest to you. How do you view the use of Twitter by CEO’s and other important corporate folks regardless of the size of the company? Is there more good or harm that can be done? Here’s some highlights.
Richard Branson, Virgin Group Chairman
Following: 6,589
Followers: 98,382
Updates: 98
Guy Kawasaki, Alltop CEO
Following: 117,520
Followers: 115,583
Updates: 23,866
Pete Cashmore, Mashable CEO
Following: 1,877
Followers: 556,590
Updates: 15,313
George Colony, Forrester Research CEO
Following: 35
Followers: 2,894
Updates: 82
Gary Stockman, Porter Novelli CEO
Following: 18
Followers: 160
Updates: 37
John Battelle, Federated Media CEO
Following: 381
Followers: 14,674
Updates: 2,441
Mark Cuban, HDNet Chairman
Following: 157
Followers: 34,105
Updates: 23
Bob Parsons, Go Daddy Group CEO and Founder
Following: 31
Followers: 642
Updates: 150
Mike Ferrari, SmartyPig Co-founder
Following: 3,024
Followers: 3,137
Updates: 599
Aaron Patzer, Mint.com CEO
Following: 47
Followers: 608
Updates: 109
Alex Yoder, WebTrends CEO
Following: 645
Followers: 591
Updates: 75
Diane Hessan, Communispace CEO
Following: 2,588
Followers: 3,382
Updates: 1,462
J’Amy Stewart, Infonetics CEO
Following: 56
Followers: 65
Updates: 52
Jay Adelson, Digg CEO
Following: 121
Followers: 4,440
Updates: 498
Kevin Rose, Digg Founder
Following: 173
Followers: 603,6051
Updates: 2,487
Tony Hsieh, Zappos.com CEO
Following: 410,711
Followers: 553,787
Updates: 1,611
Jason Calacanis, Mahalo.com Founder
Following: 416
Followers: 66,872
Favorites: 2
Updates: 9,243
Michael Arrington, TechCrunch.com Co-editor
Following: 688
Followers: 526,362
Updates: 8,306
Loic Lemeur, Seesmic Founder
Following: 573
Followers: 24,439
Updates: 16,682
Jack Dorsey, Twitter Chairman
Following: 460
Followers: 517,830
Updates: 3,721
David Sifry, Technorati Chairman
Following: 594
Followers: 6,253
Updates: 2,396
Christine Perkett, PerkettPR President
Following: 8,346
Followers: 10,220
Updates: 9093
Michael Hyatt, Thomas Nelson Publishers CEO
Following: 20,689
Followers: 21,109
Updates: 5,611
Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems CEO
Following: 4
Followers: 2,469
Updates: 28
John Lilly, Mozilla.com CEO
Following: 134
Followers: 581
Updates: 1,570
Is the CEO at your company using Twitter? How are they doing or not doing with it? Do you even care?
