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The most followed developers

The developers with the biggest social audiences — ranked by total following, not fame.

  1. 1Nasser Yassin
    Nasser Yassin14.0M
  2. 2Bill Gates
    Bill Gates3.9M
  3. 3Sam Altman
    Sam Altman3.2M
  4. 4Naomi Wu
    Naomi Wu1.6M
  5. 5David Plummer
    David Plummer1.1M
  6. 6Linus Torvalds
    Linus Torvalds309K
  7. 7DA
    Dan Abramov117K
  8. 8Jonathan Blow
    Jonathan Blow97K
  9. 9American McGee
    American McGee64K
  10. 10George Hotz
    George Hotz47K
  11. 11Ryan Dahl
    Ryan Dahl33K
  12. 12DM
    Daito Manabe29K
  13. 13Hadley Wickham
    Hadley Wickham27K
  14. 14Guido van Rossum
    Guido van Rossum26K
  15. 15Igor Ashmanov
    Igor Ashmanov26K
  16. 16Armin Ronacher
    Armin Ronacher25K
  17. 17David Heinemeier Hansson
    David Heinemeier Hansson25K
  18. 18Tom Preston-Werner
    Tom Preston-Werner25K
  19. 19Ruan Xiaohuan
    Ruan Xiaohuan23K
  20. 20Terry A. Davis
    Terry A. Davis22K
  21. 21BY Mister J Sons
    BY Mister J Sons22K
  22. 22MJ
    Moon Joon Yong20K
  23. 23Daniel Stenberg
    Daniel Stenberg20K
  24. 24François Chollet
    François Chollet18K
  25. 25Guillermo Rauch
    Guillermo Rauch17K

Ranked by total sourced social following — the largest audience on record per person, drawn mainly from YouTube where we source reliably.

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