Women In Tech You Need To Follow On Twitter

As part of an ongoing HuffPost series on Women in Tech, we've compiled a list of 27 female techies who you should be following on Twitter.

The tech sector often misrepresents the industry as a boy's club, when in fact some of the most successful entrepreneurs, executives, journalists, and developers are women. Among them, Caterina Fake, who has co-founded two popular startups; Rachel Sterne, who manages New York City's digital strategy; Kara Swisher, a trailblazing reporter who once made Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg break down into a nervous sweat; and, Katie Jacobs Stanton, who helped the Obama administration integrate social media as the White House's director of citizen participation.

All of the women on this list are active Twitter users who discuss technology in ways that are fun, timely, informative, inspiring and thought-provoking. Why wouldn't you want to follow them?

Of course, they represent only a fraction of all the terrific women-in-tech tweeters who are out there. Who else would you add to our list? Let us know by clicking "Add a slide" below, or tweet suggestions to @HuffPostTech.

You can find more features in the "Women In Tech" series--including profiles of Marissa Mayer, Google's first female engineer, and Gilt Groupe chairman Susan Lyne-- by clicking here.

 

Help us add to our list of must-follow women in tech on Twitter! Who else should we include? Click "Add a slide" to submit a Twitter user.

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Katie Jacobs Stanton is head of international strategy at Twitter. She has played an essential role in advocating the use of Twitter by President Obama's administration, serving as Director of Citizen Participation for the White House in 2009.

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[alicialiu]

06:42 PM on 07/22/2011

It saddens me to see that HuffPo didn't spend the time to find more real women in tech, who are few and far between on this list. In what other industry do the people who write about the industry get lumped into the same category? Would you call business reporters as people in finance, or call food critics restaurateurs? You're diluting the term for the women that work extremely hard to actually build technology.

[AllowMeToObserve]

04:07 PM on 07/18/2011

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04:08 PM on 07/18/2011

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04:08 PM on 07/18/2011

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[shaherose]

10:34 AM on 07/18/2011

Sarah Allen is someone you should include on this list -- she's created a revolution by teaching women to code through her organization RailsBridge.org and SF Ruby. She is also the co-founder Mightyverse, and her own consulting firm Blazing Cloud. Her Twitter handle is: http://twitter.com/ultrasaurus

[John3905]

01:02 AM on 07/18/2011

Orrrrrr....You could not follow any of these people and live a fuller, richer life reading great books, listening to great music, talking walks outdoors, observing nature and learning about more than how to get people to "like" you.

[Tochi Opara]

12:35 AM on 07/18/2011

Whew! Now, I can go to bed knowing which women I NEED to follow to make my affirmative action side feel good. >_>

[GustavoRejivik]

09:02 PM on 07/17/2011

Honestly this sounds like a bunch of bunk ....

Why must we always separate people into groups .. like women, blacks, asians, latino's, and aliens from mars. Next we must search for accomplishments within these groups which are only comparable within the group itself.

Compared to what men have a accomplished, most of these women are at best, very adept at the Corporate/Political structure or are smart but have benefited from Affirmative action ... not actually created or accomplished much of anything in my view. Kara Swisher?? Really?? She doesn't even belong in the same paragraph as Mark Zuckerberg.

I'm tired of this "Hers and Ours" mentality ....

I hope Huff Po. has the guts to allow this post, to not censor it, I'm really interested in the responses ..

[Jeneba Speaks]

11:09 PM on 07/29/2011

That is because you have lived your life privileged to see all those in leadership, top fields, and other positions of importance, influence and dominance look like you and your father.

It's important for children who don't look like you or your father to know that there are others out there who look like them doing big things too.

I wish we didn't have to be living in that world, but sadly we do. I choose not to bury my head in the sand and pretend we are all equal and therefore there is no need to showcase brilliance of a different hue and gender that is rarely shown.

[Nancy Cronk]

08:46 PM on 07/16/2011

Women have a natural advantage in networking skills, and New Media communications using facebook, googleplus, twitter and blogs are just the tip of the iceberg. Watch as women set the standard for this new industry.

[VapeGirl]

07:36 PM on 07/16/2011

These women are mostly writers and editiors, and a couple of website developers - ummm...where are the true women of tech? Where are the women in engineering, biology, electronics - inventors and creators?

[Cheshirekat02]

11:09 PM on 07/16/2011

I thought the same thing, sadly. I was looking forward to the read being a female student in networking & security. Not to discredit these women, I just think that most of them belonged in a different article.

[by-the-sea-]

06:47 PM on 07/16/2011

Sorry, but no one needs to be following anyone on Twitter.

[MissouriBoy]

04:19 PM on 07/16/2011

This list is majority tech writers, not tech inventors. There were 3 or 4 CEO/Founders of tech companies. Yet, there are many more women involved in either the creation or the growth of innovative small high tech companies.

I guess since your writers are writers, they mostly know other writers. Try to find the women engineers that are actively creating the innovations, not the women who just write about it.

Who are the new Carol Bartz's (3M, DEC, Sun, CEO of Autodesk, CEO of Yahoo)?
Who are the new Sandra Kurtzig's, Founder of ASK Computer, back when women in tech were almost unknown)?

Highlight women high tech execs, and even more important, women engineers who innovate!

[bigshotprof]

12:05 PM on 07/16/2011

There are 10 kinds of people in the world--those who appreciate digital women and those who don't.

[science chick]

08:53 AM on 07/16/2011

After reading Beth Simone Noveck's bio (a social studies and a comp lit major who made websites), I also have a much better understanding of why Obama's innovation seems squarely focused on websites which is probably the most easily offshored and least ip protected part of the technological landscape!! We are living off the R&D begun in the 1920s and the invention of the transistor. Websites are MARKETING tools unless you actually code them.

To those clueless people who have never invented a technology in their life and never worked in the trenches in product development or discovery, GET OUT OF THE PUBLIC POLICY OF INNOVATION!!! You have no idea as to what you are talking about. If you make websites to sell stuff, you exist because of John Bardeen a two time Nobel prize winning physicist!! We need more Bardeens and people like you have zero clue as to how to make them. GO HOME!!

We need real R&D in this country. Obama pick a guy like Craig Venter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Venter) to chair the innovation counsel not a social sciences major!!

[GustavoRejivik]

09:46 PM on 07/17/2011

Good points made here .. those women listed are not really innovative at all .. in terms of real tech, real science ... perhaps just adept at utilizing tools already provided to them.

[science chick]

08:52 AM on 07/16/2011

You are not a tech unless you CREATE or IMPROVE or DISCOVER technology. As a real scientist who does RESEARCH, I find these types of articles obnoxious and isolating. Very few women actually do tech and I have seen countless tech articles where the women are the HR or marketing person with a literature major for undergrad who is completely clueless as to what C++ is. For those of us women who actually invent things in the lab, please go home and quit applying a label to yourself you did not earn.

If you do not CREATE technology, you are management or public relations or a human resources person. The astronaut is a tech. The google engineer is a tech. The econ major who runs a tech company is NOT a technologist! If you sell things on the internet you are NOT technical. You are a USER of technology. You sell technology. Kraft foods and McDonalds and tire companies and many many more companies that for some reason are considered non-tech require lots of engineers and scientists to formulate foods and mass produce things. Probably way more than some website that sells luxury goods. However, I do not see the HR person for Kraft being touted as a technical person. If these people are, the Kraft foods HR person should.

Listing most of these women as tech people, is absurd.

[kathismom]

05:11 PM on 07/16/2011

I consider myself a techie because I can take apart/put back together, troubleshoot networks and work on routers, read hex, binary. I agree that a few of the women on the list do not fall into the category of "tech" but more media savvy. /shrug. Pick and choose.

[science chick]

08:54 PM on 07/16/2011

What you do is absolutely technical. Unfortunately, most of the people on this list are not technical. I would be interested to know if when TVs first came out if the news anchors and other TV reporters were considered "tech heads" given the fact an entire new media technology was born. Frankly, I doubt it. I think people were more honest back them.

[John3905]

01:03 AM on 07/18/2011

But *I* can bake a cake faster than you! ;-)