Billboard's Twitter 140

If the question is, Where do people go to talk about music?, one answer is certainly Twitter. The San Francisco-based micro-blogging service, launched in 2006 as a platform developed with so-called "dumb" phones in mind (which dictated the 140-character limit of all Twitter posts, or "tweets," as that was the maximum capacity of a standard single text message), now contains more than 140 million accounts, logging some 340 million tweets per day. 

The most talked-about subject on the service, according to Twitter's own internal metrics? Music. Twitter's five most-followed accounts? Lady Gaga (27.5 million), Justin Bieber (25.6 million), Katy Perry (23.4 million), Rihanna (23.2 million) and Britney Spears (19 million). And five of the top 10 trending topics (as in, the most discussed at any one time) on Twitter for all of last year? All music-related.
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For our second annual Twitter 140, we turned to a panel of industry experts, musicians, digital trailblazers and Billboard's own staff to find out who they followed. We were looking for the voices who steer the conversation about the music industry and digital culture, and also for music (and Twitter) obsessives who constantly share their discoveries.


The musicians included are not necessarily those with the most followers (we figure you already follow those), but those who have helped shape the way Twitter works, or who move it along in the current moment. To be considered for this list, accounts had to be at least relatively active at press time. Here, we present the 140 must-follow Twitter accounts in the music industry.

PAGE 1 A-Trak Ryan Adams Danny Aguayo Eric Alper Omid Ashtari Aureo Baqueiro Daryl Berg Big Boi Benny Blanco Bill Bragin	PAGE 2  Scooter Braun Elizabeth Brooks Jennifer Bull Jim Butcher Noah Callahan-Bever Mike Caren Steve-O Carless Rosanne Cash Bill Chasen Mary Hk Choi	PAGE 3  Karen Civil Christian Clancy Jonathan Cohen Ted Cohen Andy Cohn Tom Conrad Tomas Cookman Jonathan Coulton Adam Curry Tony Dandrades
PAGE 4  John Darnielle Deadmau5 Dave Delaney Emily Delmont Corey Denis Mike Dougherty Daniel Ek Justin Erdman Jay Frank Sasha Frere-Jones	PAGE 5  Lindsay Gabler Clive Gardiner Eric Garland Pepe Garza Mark Ghuneim Sean Glass Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald Steve Greenberg Benjy Grinberg Rocio Gutierrez	PAGE 6  Perez Hilton Jason Hirschhorn Ross Hoffman Ian Hogarth Jeremy M Holley Alex Holz Nathan Hubbard Liana Huth Chris Seth Jackson Steve Jang
PAGE 7  Shooter Jennings Ethan Kaplan Sebastian Krys Mike Kyser Bob Lefsetz Chris Lighty Alexander Ljung Marissa Lopez Kirk Love Nigel Lythgoe	PAGE 8  Joie Manda Larry Marcus Ron Mills Mark Montgomery Brendan Moore Todd Moscowitz Mark Mulligan David Noel Brian O'Connell Frank Ocean	PAGE 9  Minya Oh Don Omar Guy Oseary Reggie Ossé David Pakman Amanda Palmer Julie Pilat Ann Powers Tim Quirk Jeff Rabhan
PAGE 10  Salaam Remi Dave Rene John Richards Ian Rogers Paul Rosenberg Peter Rosenberg Pasquale Rotella Greg Sandoval Rob Santos Ryan Schreiber	PAGE 11 Ryan Seacrest Marisol Segal Nikhil Shah Jonathan Shecter Ben Sheffner Julianne Shepherd J Sider Judy Miller Silverman Tatiana Simonian Ben Sisario	PAGE 12  Kevin Smyth and Jeremy Johnson Eric Snowden Brian Solis Rob Stone Strut Records Chris Swanson Richard Tafoya The Life Files Touré
PAGE 13  Toy Selectah Darius Van Arman Jon Vanhala Scott Vener David Viecelli Alejandro Villalobos Vive Latino Music Festival Charlie Walk DA Wallach Bruce Warren	PAGE 14  Storme Warren Jeff Weiss Jeremy Welt Tim Westergren Emily White Betsy Whitney Elliot Wilson Fred Wilson Jon Wurster Anton "Zedd" Zaslavski

Contributors: JUSTINO ÁGUILA, BRIAN BRAIKER, WILLIAM GRUGER, ANDREW HAMPP, JOE LEVY, JASON LIPSHUTZ, BENJAMIN MEADOWS-INGRAM, KATIE MORSE, GLENN PEOPLES, ERIKA RAMIREZ, DAN RYS, AND BILL WERDE. ILLUSTRATION BY KAI & SUNNY.