Regular readers of this blog should have noticed that in the past few weeks I’ve been covering some topics much less while I’m writing more about other topics. It’s just the result of an analysis of what the readers of my blog are looking for so I’m just behaving accordingly. Makes sense, right?
Anyway, since I still work actively in the VoIP / telecommunications space, VoIP always remains one of my major interests and I keep being involved in this space as well as being in touch with the most representative people in the VoIP arena.
Ok, what if you want to follow them on Twitter? Who are them? How can you find them? To give you an aswer to the previous questions, here is a list (alphabetical order) of the top 30 people (I met in person 24 of them) who are worth following on Twitter if you are interested/involved in VoIP.
1) Alec Saunders
Former Microsoft manager, canadian guy, father of 5 and CEO of Iotum, company behind the great conference calling service Calliflower.
Follow Alec at: http://twitter.com/asaunders
2) Alex Drewniak
Alex is one of the Rebtel’s men, who also takes care of their corporate account. Very active on Twitter, worth a follow.
Follow Alex at: http://twitter.com/drewie123
3) Alok Saboo
Alok is the only Phd student in this list and looks like a very passionate guy for everything is VoIP. Definitely a person to follow.
Follow Alok at: http://twitter.com/truvoip
Andy is the CEO of Comunicano, one of the most important PR agency in the US, with customers mostly in the field of unified communications (just to name one, GrandCentral, now Google Voice, was his customer)
Follow Andy at: http://twitter.com/andyabramson
5) Craig Walker
Former CEO of Dialpad, former CEO of GrandCentral, now one of the minds behind Google Voice, the latest innovative service launched by Google. Very nice and friendly guy, it’s always a pleasure speaking with him.
Follow Craig at: http://twitter.com/cwalker123
6) Daemon Welch Abernathy
Former Nokia employee, he’s a real, proud, geek. A must follow.
Follow Phoneboy at: http://twitter.com/phoneboy
7) Dan York
One of the men behind Voxeo, a company deeply involved in the VoIP space. As of a couple of days ago, Director of Communications at Voxeo.
Follow Dan at: http://twitter.com/danyork
David Beckemeyer
David is another VoIP guru based in the bay area. One of the minds behind Phonegnome and Phweet.
Follow David at: http://twitter.com/mrblog
9) Dean Elwood
Dean is a hands-on VoIP guy who worked for various companies in the VoIP space. UK-based.
Follow Dean at: http://twitter.com/deanelwood
10) Don Thorson
Don is one of the minds behind Ribbit, the mountain view based VoIP company recently acquired by British Telecom. Another very nice guy and very active on Twitter.
Follow Don at: http://twitter.com/donthorson
11) Frederik Hermann
Frederik is a German guy emigrated to Mountain View in order to head the communications at Jajah. Very nice guy, it’s always a pleasure talking with him.
Follow Frederik at: http://twitter.com/netzkobold
12) Garrett Smith
Do you have questions on what the best wifi phone is? How expensive the latest VoIP router is? Ask Garrett.
Follow Garrett at: http://twitter.com/garrettsmith
13) Irv Shapiro
Irv is another person I met during one of my trips to California. He’s CEO at IfByPhone, a Voice 2.0 company.
Follow Irv at: http://twitter.com/irvshapiro
14) James Body
James is a leading engineer of Truphone, a popular mobile VoIP service based in UK. James is a real expert of low level protocols and design and he is really, really a funny guy. Worth following. BTW, ask him how many mobile phone he owns…
Follow James at: http://twitter.com/jamesbody
15) Jeff Pulver
Jeff is the VoIP guru here and one of the first early adopters of this technology. Jeff is the inventor of VON conferences and now involved in many initiatives in the field of social communications and unified communications (the latest one is about HD Voice)
Follow Jeff at: http://twitter.com/jeffpulver
16) Jim Courtney
Long time high technology executive, Jim has been involved with Skype Journal since a few weeks ago, when he launched his new Venture VoiceOnTheWeb.com. I keep learning a lot from him.
Follow Jim at: http://twitter.com/jimcanuck
17) Ken Camp
Ken is certainly an early adopter of any kind of technology and a Telecom expert. Definitely a must-follow.
Follow Ken at: http://twitter.com/kencamp
18) Kerry Ritz
Former CEO of Vonage UK, he’s now CEO at Palringo, an innovative unified communication service for a wide range of mobile phones.
Follow Kerry at: http://twitter.com/kerryritz
19) Lee Dryburgh
Lee is a VoIP expert, very well known in the last couple two years for being the organizer of eComm, the premier conference on emercing communications.
Follow Lee at: http://twitter.com/leedryburgh
20) Martyn Davies
Voip Expert from Dialogic, UK based, Martyn has been talking telecoms for the past 20 years.
Follow Martyn at: http://twitter.com/martyndavies
21) Mark Spencer
CTO and Founder of Digium, the mother of Asterisk, the most popular open source VoIP project so far. Does he need introductions?
Follow Mark at: http://twitter.com/markster
22) Moshe Maeir
Israeli guy, he wants to make the world flat when it comes to telephony.
Follow Moshe at: http://twitter.com/flatPlanet
23) Phil Wolff
Phil is now the man behind Skype Journal. He’s involved in everything related to VoIP and Skype.
Follow Phil at: http://twitter.com/evanwolf
24) Rich Tehrani
CEO of TMCNet and, together with Tom Keating, a long time observer of what’s going on in the VoIP space.
Follow Rich at: http://twitter.com/rtehrani
25) Scott Wharton
Former VP of Broadsoft, I met Scott at the P&PTechCenter in Sunnyvale. Impressed by their new venture, Vidtel, a pure IP to IP video telephony service. Worth a follow (not for his avatar, though!) 
Follow Scott at: http://twitter.com/scottwharton
26) Stuart Henshall
Together with David, co-founder and CEO of Phweet, a service which brings VoIP to Twitter, and founder of Skypejournal (which left after the acquisition of Skype by eBay).
Follow Stuart at: http://twitter.com/stuarthenshall
27) Thomas Howe
Tom is an expert of everything about voice mashups and as of a couple of days ago, he’s the CEO of Jaduka.
Follow Tom at: http://twitter.com/howethomas
28) Tom Keating
One of the men behind Internet Telephony Magazine & Expo. A long time observer of what’s going on in the VoIP space.
Follow Tom at: http://twitter.com/tomkeating
29) Tsahi Levent Levi
Tsahi, from Israel, is product manager at Radvision. He eats SIP and Video for dinner 
Follow Tsahi at: http://twitter.com/tsahil
…and, last but not least,
30) Myself!
10 years in the VoIP market, social media enthusiast, Twitter addict. Don’t forget to follow me!
Follow me: http://twitter.com/filos
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An impressive list. Thanks. I was not following all of these people and thought my collection was complete. In fact, a bit surprised on some not included.
Your link for Irv was wrong, it is: http://twitter.com/irvshapiro
And your link for Keating has a bad link, but written correctly.
And just for grins, you may want to follow me: http://twitter.com/DaveMichels
Dave, thanks for pointing this out. Most of my list is made of people I met in person, so I bet there are tons of twitter users out there who are worth mentioning here!
Ciao
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Luca Filigheddu
+39 393 9386510
luca.filigheddu@abbeynet.com
Luca,
Thanks for the vote of confidence!
The best part of it is that some of the people on your list are people I haven't been following yet.
Tsahi
Ciao Luca,
Thanks for the great list, I also found 3 people that I wasn't following yet. And I am German, not Austrian
The two JAJAH founders Roman and Daniel are Austrian though.
I hope you are doing well and things are good!
Thanks and have a great weekend,
Frederik
JAJAH on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jajah
Oooops, sorry for the mistake… I got confused because of the founders, apologize! Everything is well, thanks, see you in mountain view… Hopefully soon. Ciao
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Luca Filigheddu
+39 393 9386510
luca.filigheddu@abbeynet.com
Hi Luca – thanks for the link.
I wondered why all of a sudden I had a couple of dozen new followers on Twitter – this explains why!
Luca, thanks for the mention. You are really too kind.
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