45 Favorite Designers and Developers you must follow on Twitter

Now a days Twitter has become a no. 1 choice among web designers and developers to share ideas and get useful links.

In this post I am sharing a list of some popular peoples that every designer and developer must follow. These following list includes categories like art direction, web design, graphic design, illustration, typography etc.

ART DIRECTION

Calvin Lee
	Self-Proclaimed Media Ho, Designer Guy and Twitter Addict. In his spare time, Stunt Doubles for the Hulk and a really Nice Guy! You can even ask Chris Brogan http://twitter.com/mayhemstudios

Michael Lebowitz
	Twitter feed of digital creative agency Big Spaceship, curated by Founder & CEO Michael Lebowitz http://twitter.com/bigspaceship

Tina Roth Eisenberg
	swiss designer gone NYC http://twitter.com/swissmiss

Romain Colin
	Daily dose of inspiration http://twitter.com/fubiz

Adelle Charles
	Adelle Charles Co-Founder + CCO at Fuel Brand Inc. / Creators of the fuelbrandnetwork.com http://twitter.com/adellecharles

Khoi Vinh
	Design Director, NYTimes.com http://twitter.com/khoi

Iain McDonald
	Founder Amnesia | Razorfish, Sydney. Part of Microsoft. http://twitter.com/eunmac

Amit Agarwal
	Technology columnist & professional blogger, Founder labnol.org http://twitter.com/labnol

Derek Powazek
	Author, designer, troublemaker, person. http://twitter.com/fraying

Adii
	Entrepreneur, co-founder of WooThemes and general creator of Rockstar Awesomeness! http://twitter.com/adii

WEB DESIGN

Walter Apai
	Webdesigner Depot is one of the most popular blogs about web design trends, tutorials and much more. It's run by Walter Apai, a web designer from Vancouver. http://twitter.com/DesignerDepot

Fabio Sasso
	Graphic/web designer and blogger. http://twitter.com/abduzeedo

Jeffrey Zeldman
	Friend of the Japanese children http://twitter.com/zeldman

Roger Byrne
	Social Media, Wordpress & Design, sharing inspiration, originally from England now in Egypt! Work with the cool Envato crew! rogermbyrne at gmail dot com http://twitter.com/styletime

Baz Deas
	I design simple and beautiful eCommerce and corporate websites—in short, I make things pretty http://twitter.com/BazDeas

Ryan Carson
	American living in England - I'm a Father, Internet entrepreneur and lover of movies. Founder of Carsonified.com http://twitter.com/ryancarson

Chris Coyier
	Lead cascader. Head tag closer. http://twitter.com/chriscoyier

Mike Lane
	Senior UX Designer near Minneapolis, MN with 14 years experience in creative Web and Graphic Design. http://twitter.com/mlane

Alen Grakalic
	Web designer and developer, passionate about web standards. Owner of http://cssglobe.com and CSS workshop co-host http://webradionice.com. I swim-bike-run too! http://twitter.com/cssglobe

Emily Chang
	Co-founder of @Ideacodes. Designer, technologist, geek, blogger, entrepreneur, surfer. Founder of @eHub and @PicoCool. Likes robots. Married to @maxkiesler. http://twitter.com/emilychang

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Richard Darell
	Web/Graphic Designer/Developer. Founder of Minervity.com, BitRebels.com, RazorMade Mediaworks and The MonoTwins. http://twitter.com/Minervity

Nicholas Patten
	Video Editor, Graphic/Web Designer, Architecture, Tutorials, Social Media, Red Camera rental, I'm a Mac. (@RedLifeintl - Red Camera) (@IRGnews - IR/PR) http://twitter.com/nicholaspatten

Jacob Cass
	Graphic Designer, Logo Designer, Web Designer, Blogger, Creative Thinker, Uni Student, Freelancer http://twitter.com/justcreative

Graham Smith
	Freelance Logo and Brand Identity designer. Minimalist and typographic fan. Also known to create icons. 22+ years experience. LoveHelvetica. LoveDogs. http://twitter.com/imjustcreative

Chris Spooner
	I'm a creative Designer, avid Blogger and I'm generally crazy about pretty colours and shapes. http://twitter.com/chrisspooner

Dan Cederholm
	Handcrafted pixels & text. http://twitter.com/simplebits

Jason Santa Maria
	Designer by day, designer by night. http://twitter.com/jasonsantamaria

Veerle Pieters
	Colorlover for life http://twitter.com/vpieters

Mirko Humbert
	Swiss graphic and web designer. Can be nice sometimes. http://twitter.com/mirkohumbert

Brian Hoff
	Graphic Designer and Founder of @TDCBrand and www.BrianHoff.net http://twitter.com/behoff

ILLUSTRATION

Jon Phillips
	designer by day, guitarist by night (and typography addict pretty much all the time) http://twitter.com/jophillips

Marc Schiller
	Founder of Wooster Collective and CEO of Electric Artists http://twitter.com/MarcDSchiller

Von Glitschka
	Von Glitschka Illustrator + Designer = Illustrative Designer: Branding, Icons, Marketing, Graphic Design, Illustration, Typography, Jesus Freak, Geek, and Conspiracy Theorist http://twitter.com/vonster

Susie Ghahremani
	i'm a painter, also i like finches. http://twitter.com/boygirlparty

John Martz
	Illustrator, cartoonist, blogger at drawn.ca http://twitter.com/robotjohnny

UX

Mandi Leman
	Microblog for freelancers, entrepreneurs, and professionals to collaborate, find work, and solve problems by answering: What are you working on? http://twitter.com/blellow

Jason Fried
	Founder of 37signals. Architecture and tea enthusiast, too. Entrepreneurs: Simple is an asset. http://twitter.com/jasonfried

Dustin Curtis
	I make user interfaces. I'm obsessed with sushi, the sky, and the brain. http://twitter.com/dcurtis

Cabel Sasser
	Co-Founder of Panic http://twitter.com/cabel

Whitney Hess
	Whitney Hess User experience designer, writer, consultant. I make stuff easy and pleasurable to use. Please @ me when you follow to say hi! http://twitter.com/whitneyhess

TYPOGRAPHY

John D Boardley
	Founder of ILT. Fond of fonts, taken by typefaces. Designer, writer, typophile, bibliophile, atheist. http://twitter.com/ilovetypography

Justin Stahl
	The Typography Manual for the iPhone and iPod Touch http://twitter.com/typeapp

Robin Bastien
	What lurks in my mind: Web design,coffee, vegetarianism, typography, and illustration. http://twitter.com/ocularharmony

Aegir Hallmundur
	I am a designer with a focus on typography and web. I blog on my site, and rant here. http://twitter.com/aegirthor

Stephen Coles
	Days: FontShop | Nights: The Mid-Century Modernist (@mid_century_mod), Typographica (@typographica), rawk, cat http://twitter.com/stewf

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10 New Social Media Tools for Web Users

Social media tools like Twitter and Facebook plays a vital role among social community. It always benefited to web users through its social engagement.

In this post I'm sharing a small list of new social media tools to help web users. These list includes some most popular tools like TweeMixx, TweetMic, Clixtr, Stribe, SocialToo and much more.

Clixtr

Clixtr is the ultimate and only social camera. The application is a location aware mobile photo sharing platform. Clixtr allows users to create events, upload mobile photos, and for the first time ever, create real-time event photo streams with the users around them. With Clixtr, photos and events are public and can be followed live on the web or directly on mobile devices.



TweetMixx

TweetMixx is a web-based Twitter client to allows you follow as well as share tweets of your favorite topics from people you don't like to follow. It also allows you to filter out links shared via Twitter.



SocialToo

SocialToo can help you be a social networking power user. Keep your follower lists in sync across networks, and learn more about your relationships. Send surveys to your followers and more! You can logim with your Twitter or Facebook id.



Stribe

Stribe is a plug and play service to instantly create a social network on any website. Your users are connected with your community on any website with Stribe. It is totally customize and you have a full freedom to change colors, fonts and background. The Stribe back office is a dedicated feature to help you to follow the social activity by providing all key metrics.



threadsy

threadsy is a new kind of messaging experience created for anyone to use. It combines all of your existing accounts in one place and enhances them with relevant information from your social networks and the public web. Currently it supports IE8 and Firefox for better user experience.



Lissn

Lissn connects, local and the world through live, real time conversations. Lissn automatically translates conversations in your native language, using Google Translate. This unique service let you to see what conversations your friends are engaged in, and can decide whether or not you want to join them too.



TweetMic

TweetMic is a simple and intuitive Twitter client app for the iPhone that allows you to make high-quality audio recordings or "Tweetcasts" and publish them directly to Twitter. There is no limit to how much you can record and you don't need to sign up for any additional service to start using TweetMic.



CROWDFusion

Crowd Fusion is a publishing platform that combines several popular applications - like blogging, wikis, tagging and workflow management - with some original concepts.



PERPETUALLY

Perpetually is a very unique archive service. Perpetually lets businesses and organizations keep the history of the web in a private archive. It start archiving your website in 60 seconds.



thoora

Thoora is a new and different service that helps people discover the news attracting the most attention and social reactions - making it easy for you to filter through the noise and the growing challenge of finding valuable information.



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