The Unofficial Stanford-centric Guide to whom you should follow on Twitter.
Sports Studs
Nicole Gibbs ’14 : @Gibbsyyyy
Who: WTA player, 2012 NCAA singles, doubles champ.
Twitter stats: 376 followers, 782 tweets
Sample tweet: That awkward moment when you realize you’ve been watching the weather channel for the past 20 min #outofit (7/16/12)
Twitter theme: Days in the life of a tennis star.
Mark Madsen ’00: @madsen_mark
Who: Stanford asst. basketball coach. Lakers, T-Wolves, two-time All-American.
Twitter stats: 18,208 followers, 408 tweets
Sample tweet: OchoCinco (NFL player)said he’s going to live with a fan for 3 weeks while he gets used to his new city. cool? strange? great marketing?(8/10/12)
Twitter theme: Mostly business
Kerri Walsh ’00: @kerrileewalsh
Who: Two-time Olympic gold, four-year first-team All-American, 1999 National Player of the Year
Twitter stats: 21,320 followers, 2,003 tweets
Sample tweet: “Trying times are not the times to stop trying. – Ray Owen” a reminder for us all (6/26/12)
Twitter theme: Lots of photos of her kids
Tiger Woods: @TigerWoods
Who: 14-time major championship winning golfer
Twitter stats: 2,487,639 followers, 259 tweets
Sample tweet: On Twitter? Every 1.7 seconds. RT: @Randyinvegas How often do you get offers from people to help you with your golf game? (4/17/12)
Twitter theme: An Oscar speech in 140-character chunks– lots of thank-yous and a couple jokes
Michelle Wie ’12: @themichellewie
Who: Star golfer
Twitter stats: 86,811 followers, 1,929 tweets
Sample tweet: Looking forward to my snuggle-fest with my lola bear this rainy afternoon (5/14/12)
Twitter theme: Commentary on sports and cooking
Nneka Ogwumike ’12: @Nnemkadi30
Who: L.A. Sparks forward, 2012 WNBA Draft #1 overall pick
Twitter stats: 9,932 followers, 3,158 tweets
Sample tweet: #PLL (7/10/12)
Twitter theme: Blowin’ up your timeline
The Famous and Powerful
Condoleezza Rice: @CondoleezzaRice
Who: Fmr. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State
Twitter stats: 30,045 followers, 167 tweets
Sample tweet: Congratulations to Stanford’s Andrew Luck being selected #1! Go Colts! (4/16/12)
Twitter theme: Following the ultimate campus celebrity
Ben Savage ’04: @BenSavage
Who: Cory from “Boy Meets World”
Twitter stats: 131,527 followers, 1,276 tweets
Sample tweet: A cute girl at the gym just caught me singing along to Fergie’s “Big Girls Don’t Cry”… Whoops. #ImGonnaMissYouLikeAChildMissesTheirBlanket (7/23/12)
Twitter theme: Jokester, self-described Zac Efron fan
Joel Stein ’93: @thejoelstein
Who: L.A. Times, TIME Columnist
Twitter stats: 974,476 followers, 1,902 tweets
Sample tweet: Every Bastille Day I think the same sad thought: I have never stormed anything. (7/14/12)
Twitter theme: Calls himself a “self-promoting whore”
Rachel Maddow ’94: @maddow
Who: MSNBC’s most-watched primetime anchor
Twitter stats: 2,165,547 followers, 1,628 tweets
Sample tweet: Her arm is really never going to get better if she keeps doing this: [links video to British MP Anne Marie Morris’s gesticulations in the House of Commons while one of her arms is in a sling] (7/12/12)
Twitter theme: Journalist by day, bartender by night
Campus Celebrities
Stewart Macgregor-Dennis ’13: @macgregordennis
Who: Entrepreneur, former ASSU vice president
Twitter stats: 62,864 followers, 780 tweets
Sample tweet: Been studying for finals and listening to a montage of Muhammad Ali on repeat for the last nine hours. (3/18/12)
Twitter theme: Keeping us updated on how to find success
Feross Aboukhadijeh ’12: @FreeTheFeross
Who: Computer whiz, built YouTube Instant
Twitter stats: 3,988 followers, 5,795 tweets
Sample tweet: Type “Illuminati” backwards in your browser, followed by .com! zOMG EVERYONE IT’S A CONSPIRACY!!!1 (7/15/12)
Twitter theme: Lots of current affairs links
Rob Reich: @robreich
Who: Associate professor of political science
Twitter stats: 2,259 followers, 1,828 tweets
Sample tweet: On being confused with Fmr. Scy. of Labor: “better ‘the other Rob Reich’ than ‘the Rob Reich you’ve never heard of'” (5/25/12)
Twitter theme: The intersection of sports, politics and NGOs
Ralph Nguyen ’12: @ralphamale
Who: YouTube celebrity
Twitter stats: 1,512 followers, 463 tweets
Sample tweet: Showering with Vibrams on: good idea in theory, terrible in practice 🙁 (10/3/10)
Twitter theme: Musings from the man who brought you MemeChu