The best tech Twitter accounts for developers are the ones run by people who build the tools you use: framework authors, runtime creators and engineers who post what they ship. The picks below come from the free TechTwitter IO who-to-follow page, which lists real accounts with a note on each, and they lean toward people who write code rather than talk about it.
Tool and framework creators
These accounts are where you see a release, a bug fix or a design decision before the docs catch up.
- @mitchellh (Mitchell Hashimoto). Created Terraform and founded HashiCorp, then made the Ghostty terminal.
- @jarredsumner (Jarred Sumner). Created Bun, which he now works on at Anthropic.
- @evanyou (Evan You). Author of Vue and Vite. His company VoidZero was bought by Cloudflare.
- @shadcn. Made shadcn/ui and works at Vercel.
- @antirez (Salvatore Sanfilippo). The Redis creator, now writing about programming with LLMs.
- @bcherny (Boris Cherny). Built Claude Code at Anthropic and posts how his own team uses it.
Engineers with opinions
| Account | Why developers follow, per the list |
|---|---|
| @ThePrimeagen | Ex-Netflix, streams about Vim and Rust |
| @theo | Runs T3 Chat and covers web dev and AI tools with a take |
| @dhh | Rails creator who argues against complexity and big cloud bills |
| @GergelyOrosz | Writes The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter |
| @kentcdodds | Teaches testing and full-stack web work |
Strong opinions are the point here. You will disagree with some of them, and that is useful: a timeline where everyone agrees teaches you less.
Security and operations
- @troyhunt (Troy Hunt) runs Have I Been Pwned and posts about major breaches as they come out.
- @SwiftOnSecurity gives practical security advice for people who run real systems.
AI coding
AI coding tools changed how many developers work, and tech Twitter is where the tips spread first.
- @simonw (Simon Willison) writes up each new model he tries.
- @mckaywrigley (McKay Wrigley) builds with AI coding tools in public and teaches what works.
- @addyosmani (Addy Osmani) works on Claude Code after years on Chrome developer experience at Google.
If you track your own AI coding usage, these accounts often post early when a tool changes how it works, which is a useful heads-up next to your own numbers.
How to use the list
Follow the creators of tools in your stack first; their posts are the most directly useful. Add two or three opinion accounts, one security account and one AI coding account. After a week, unfollow anyone whose posts you skip. Muting and unfollowing do not notify anyone.
A lighter daily read
TechTwitter IO also publishes a free satirical daily paper about what these people and their followers argued about, set out in sections like Launches, Incident Report and Page 404, with puzzles such as Connections and Jumble. It is a parody, and its footer says so: posts without a linked source are invented. Treat it as the comics page, not as release notes.
One honest caveat: account lists go stale. People change jobs and handles, and the TechTwitter IO page asks readers to report errors. If you only care about one framework, its official account or changelog is still the most reliable feed. For a broader developer timeline, this list is a quick start.