Following the overwhelming feedback received for the Top 20 Influencers in Finance Technology, the Jax London Conference team decided to do a similar analysis on influential people in Java. The Java influencer list was generated by analyzing thousands of Twitter accounts extracting the MozRank and Klout scores which rank both quality and influence.
The analysis ranks the top accounts according to their social influence, although interestingly enough, not all household names of Java evangelists are on the list.
Congratulations to all influencers who made it into our top 25. Click on each username to visit their Twitter accounts.
Martin Fowler @martinfowler
Programmer, Loud Mouth, ThoughtWorks
Total score: 163 = Klout score: 90 + Social Authority score: 73
Andy Rubin @Arubin
Percent of all fresh water on Earth that is in icecaps and glaciers: 99.5 %
Total score: 145 = Klout score: 78 + Social Authority score: 67
Arun Gupta @arungupta
Runner, Author, Father, Husband, Globe Trotter, Community Builder, Java Champion, JavaOne Rockstar, JUG Leader, Minecraft Modder, Devoxx4Kids-er, Couchbaser …
Total score: 130 = Klout score: 63 + Social Authority score: 67
Simon Ritter @speakjava
Head of Java evangelism at Oracle Corporation. Spreading the world on all Java technologies, far and wide.
Total score: 129 = Klout score: 65 + Social Authority score: 64
Jonas Boner @jboner
Founder & CTO of Typesafe
Total score: 129 = Klout score: 60 + Social Authority score: 69
Jessica Kerr @jessitron
Functional developer, speaker, mother, crazy nut. Scala at @MonsantoCo. Learning and growing. All tweets are mine, licensed CC0.
Total score: 128 = Klout score: 62 + Social Authority score: 66
Guillaume Laforge @glaforge
Restlet product lead and APIs dev advocate, Groovy programming language project lead
Total score: 127 = Klout score: 62 + Social Authority score: 65
Joshua Bloch @joshbloch
Effective Java author, API Designer, Swell guy
Total score: 123 = Klout score: 57 + Social Authority score: 66
Trisha Gee @trisha_gee
Coder/blogger/speaker, working for JetBrains. Human. More or less.
Total score: 121 = Klout score: 61 + Social Authority score: 60
Josh Long @starbuxman
Spring Advocate @Pivotal http://spring.io/team/jlong ; @david_syer‘s my spirit animal; @pearson http://bit.ly/1HUCRWr ; @OReillyMedia http://oreil.ly/1CiSz85
Total score: 121 = Klout score: 60 + Social Authority score: 61
Viktor Klang @viktorklang
Deputy CTO at Typesafe Inc. Life-long learner, programmer, father of twins, flyfisher and Islay single malt fan. My tweets are my own.
Total score: 120 = Klout score: 56 + Social Authority score: 64
Jamie Allen @jamie_allen
Senior Director of Global Services for Typesafe. Noted Lambda hater. Author of Effective Akka (O’Reilly), co-author of Reactive Design Patterns (Manning)
Total score: 119 = Klout score: 54 + Social Authority score: 65
Sion @Sion_Smith
Entrepreneurial Geek! Java hacker with a passion for new technology, fintech and fitness. Currently building something awesome.
Total score: 119 = Klout score: 64 + Social Authority score: 55
Tim Berglund @tlberglund
Director of Training for DataStax. I teach people how to Cassandra. Husband of one, father of three. Believer in Christ.
Total score: 115 = Klout score: 62 + Social Authority score: 53
Martin Odersky @odersky
lead designer of Scala
Total score: 114 = Klout score: 55 + Social Authority score: 59
Lukas Eder @lukaseder
Founder and CEO at http://datageekery.com , the company behind http://jooq.org . My Tweets are full of sarcasm and satire. Be warned!
Total score: 113 = Klout score: 56 + Social Authority score: 57
Mark Reinhold @mreinhold
Chief Architect, Java Platform Group, Oracle · Views are my own
Total score: 110 = Klout score: 53 + Social Authority score: 57
Adrian Colyer @adriancolyer
Author: #themorningpaper, Venture Partner with Accel Partners, London after many years as CTO for SpringSource and then apps at VMware, Pivotal
Total score: 110 = Klout score: 55 + Social Authority score: 55
Geertjan Wielenga @GeertjanW
one of the Oracle product managers on the NetBeans Team
Total score: 109 = Klout score: 55 + Social Authority score: 54
Rachel Davies @rachelcdavies
Works as Agile Coach at Unruly in London. Likes going for long walks.
Total score: 109 = Klout score: 54 + Social Authority score: 55
Adam Bien @AdamBien
Freelancer: Author, JavaONE Rockstar Speaker, Consultant, Java Champion
Total score: 109 = Klout score: 53 + Social Authority score: 56
Peter Lawrey @PeterLawrey
Innovative developer of high performance Java systems for competitive advantage.
Total score: 103 = Klout score: 48 + Social Authority score: 55
