The following Twitter users are people that I know, have met at conferences or simply find interesting…all doing work in areas related to social ventures. Here’s what I think of them and why I think you should follow them too!

Name - Nathaniel Whitmore
Location - Evanston, IL
Twitter - @nlw
Why You Should Follow - Founder of Assetmap.org and one of the founding organizers of Change.org

Real - Sarah Bramley
Location - Kampala, Uganda
Twitter - @sbramley
Why You Should Follow - Regional Manager of Africa for the NGO Water For People. Updates a lot from the field using her mobile while working to provide clean water to people who don’t have access to it

Name - Kaushal Jhalla
Location - San Francisco
Twitter - @ksjhalla
Why You Should Follow - Organizer of Barcamp Africa and liaison between Silicon Valley and African companies

Name - Joseph Kimojino
Location - Maasai Mara, Kenya
Twitter - @maratriangle
Why You Should Follow - Interesting tweets from a wildlife and Maasai tribe protectionist living in a National Park in Kenya.

Name - Isaac Mao
Location - China
Twitter - @isaac
Why You Should Follow - Prominent Chinese blogger, web developer and social activist. Often writes in Chinese but search.twitter.com can attempt to translate for you.

Name - Rhesa
Location - San Francisco
Twitter - @persistance
Why You Should Follow - Explores ways of creating new channels of capital to fund innovation and creativity in undeserved communities.

Name - Glenn Strachan
Location - You never really know with this guy
Twitter - @glennstrachan
Why You Should Follow - ‘The Johnny Appleseed’ of broadband in Africa and other emerging markets.

Name - Social Capital Markets
Location - San Francisco, California
Twitter - @SoCap08
Why You Should Follow - Conference for investors interested in philanthropic (double-bottomline) businesses

Name - Stacey Monk
Location - Satellite Beach, FL
Twitter Name - @StaceyMonk
Why You Should Follow - Founder of Epicchange.com

Name - Appropedia.org
Location - Global
Twitter - @appropedia
Why You Should Follow - Writes about green living, green tech, appropriate technology, solutions to poverty, sustainable development.

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And, of course, I recommend the two accounts below for shamelessly selfish reasons. One is my personal account, the other is the Twitter account for Appfrica.

Name - Jon Gosier
Location - Kampala, Uganda
Twitter Name - @jongos and @appfrica

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About the Author: Jonathan Gosier is a software developer, writer and social entrepreneur. He currently lives in Kampala, Uganda where he incubates and invests in East African entrepreneurs as the CEO of Appfrica Labs. He's also a 2009 TEDGlobal Fellow.

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