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Jun 14, 2017

For over 20 years BASTA! is the leading and independent conference for Microsoft-Technologies and JavaScript. BASTA! enables, with his competent offers about C#, .NET-Framework and web technologies, developers and software-engineers to keep up with recent developments. In line with this, BASTA! presents to you the Top 20 Social Influencer in these areas.

BASTA! 2017 – TOP 20 Influencers

The .NET, Windows & Open Innovation Conference BASTA! proudly presents the top 20 social influencers regarding the Microsoft and .NET World.

This list was created by analysing thousands of twitter profiles extracting the MozRank and Klout scores which rank both quality and influence. 

If we missed anybody, it has nothing to do with the fact that we don’t think that they are just as important or shareworthy as any person on this list. We ourselves though do believe that such analytical lists do have the right to exist and furthermore we at BASTA! follow the listed speaker on their social channels and enjoy their quality content.

We congratulate everyone who made it on this list. If you click on the name or on the picture of each speaker you will be redirected to their twitter profile and check out the useful information they share every day.

Enjoy!

METHODOLOGY

We first generated a list of one thousand .NET-related Twitter accounts.
To score the account and rank them accordingly, we analyzed their social authority and reach using two key metrics: MozRank and Klout.

Moz Social Authority Score: Social Authority score is composed of:

  1. The retweet rate of users’ last few hundred tweets.
  2. The recency of those tweets.
  3. A retweet-based model trained on user profile data.

Visit this MOZ blog post for more in-depth information.

Klout Score: Klout uses more than 400 signals from eight different networks to update the Klout Score daily. It’s mainly based on the ratio of reactions a user generates compared to the amount of content he shares. Read more at the Klout score blog.

Congratulations to all the influencers who have made it into our Top 20!


To visit the associated Twitter profiles, just click on the respective portraits. We hope you enjoy exploring new perspectives and find some inspiration.

Scott Hanselman @shanselman

Tech, Code, YouTube, Race, Linguistics, Web, Parenting, Black Hair, STEM, Inclusion, @OSCON chair, Phony. MSFT, but these are my opinions. @overheardathome

Total score: 164 = Klout score: 79 + Social Authority score: 86

Klout score
Moz score
Total score

Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza

Started Xamarin, Mono, Gnome with great friends. Working at Microsoft on beautiful .NET Mobile tools.

Total score: 159 = Klout score: 83 + Social Authority score: 76

Klout score
Moz score
Total score

Troy Hunt @troyhunt

Pluralsight author. Microsoft Regional Director and MVP for Developer Security. Online security, technology and “The Cloud”. Creator of @haveibeenpwned.

Total score: 157 = Klout score: 79 + Social Authority score: 78

Klout score
Moz score
Total score

Daniel Rubino @Daniel_Rubino

Editor-in-chief of Windows Central. Full-time curmudgeon, science geek and play-acting anarchist. HoloLens user. [email protected]

Total score: 156 = Klout score: 81 + Social Authority score: 75

Klout score
Moz score
Total score

Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich

CTO of Microsoft Azure, author of novels Rogue Code, Zero Day and Trojan Horse, Windows Internals, Sysinternals utilities.

Total score: 156 = Klout score: 82 + Social Authority score: 74

Klout score
Moz score
Total score

Mary Jo Foley @maryjofoley

I am All About Microsoft on ZDNet (http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft ). Oh, and I am also sometimes (more often than not) all about craft beer.

Total score: 146 = Klout score: 68 + Social Authority score: 78

Klout score
Moz score
Total score

Chris Heilmann @codepo8

Londoner, German, European. Developer Evangelist – all things open web, writing and helping. Works at Microsoft on Edge, opinions totally my own. #nofilter

Total score: 142 = Klout score: 70 + Social Authority score: 72

Klout score
Moz score
Total score

Paul Thurrott @thurrott

Paul Thurrott is an award-winning technology journalist and blogger and the author of over 25 books. He is the majordomo at http://Thurrott.com .

Total score: 142 = Klout score: 70 + Social Authority score: 72

Klout score
Moz score
Total score

Tom Warren @tomwarren

Senior Editor at The Verge. Primarily focused on Microsoft news and reviews. Tips: Telegram at tomwarren, or Twitter DM.

Total score: 141 = Klout score: 66 + Social Authority score: 75

Klout score
Moz score
Total score

Scott Guthrie @scottgu

Vice President of Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Group.

Total score: 140 = Klout score: 65 + Social Authority score: 75

Klout score
Moz score
Total score

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Founder of Wahlin Consulting. Consulting & training on Angular, Node.js, ASP_NET, C#, Docker. Author for Pluralsight and Udemy. https://about.me/danwahlin

Total score: 136 = Klout score: 68 + Social Authority score: 68

Klout score
Moz score
Total score

John Papa @John_Papa

Husband, father, and Catholic enjoying every minute with my family. Disney fanatic, evangelist, HTML/CSS/JavaScript dev, speaker, and Pluralsight author.

Total score: 134 = Klout score: 64 + Social Authority score: 70

Klout score
Moz score
Total score

Jon Galloway @jongalloway

ASP.NET & Azure Dev, I like computers and think someday others will, too. I am part of @HerdingCode podcast. I work for Microsoft but speak for myself.

Total score: 134 = Klout score: 65 + Social Authority score: 69

Klout score
Moz score
Total score

Immo Landwerth @terrajobst

Program manager on .NET at Microsoft. Opinions are my own. I tweet in GIFs.

Total score: 132 = Klout score: 66 + Social Authority score: 66

Klout score
Moz score
Total score

Clemens Vasters @clemensv

Software Architect, moving stuff from A to B, Microsoft @Azure #ServiceBus #EventHubs #Relay. OPCUA, OASIS, IoT. [email protected]

Total score: 128 = Klout score: 66 + Social Authority score: 62

Klout score
Moz score
Total score

Robert Cecil Martin @unclebobmartin

Software Craftsman, Consultant/Speaker

Total score: 125 = Klout score: 60 + Social Authority score: 65

Klout score
Moz score
Total score

K. Scott Allen @OdeToCode

Developer, Author @pluralsight & Visual Studio MVP

Total score: 111 = Klout score: 54 + Social Authority score: 57

Klout score
Moz score
Total score

Steven Guggenheimer @StevenGuggs

Microsoft’s Chief Evangelist of Developer Experience (DX) – part geek, part businessman – all mobile, all cloud, all tech…all the time.

Total score: 110 = Klout score: 55 + Social Authority score: 55

Klout score
Moz score
Total score

Anders Hejlsberg @ahejlsberg

Lead Architect of C# & TypeScript @Microsoft

Total score: 108 = Klout score: 50 + Social Authority score: 58

Klout score
Moz score
Total score

Erich Gamma @ErichGamma

Lead Developer @VisualStudioCode…and skier

Total score: 104 = Klout score: 46 + Social Authority score: 58

Klout score
Moz score
Total score

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