AIDF NAME TOP 100 TWITTER ACCOUNTS IN HUMANITARIAN AID AND DEVELOPMENT

The Aid and International Development Forum (AIDF) has released their ‘Top 100 Accounts to Follow on Twitter in 2015’. AIDF is the world leading independent forum specialising in disaster management and relief, mobile for development, food security; and the list includes the most active and followed accounts in humanitarian aid and development.

AIDF’s top 100 Twitter accounts have been selected by level of activity, content of tweets and number of followers. The list comprises celebrities, CEOs, private foundations, investors, NGOs, UN agencies, newsrooms, non-profit and government organisations connected with humanitarian aid and development.

Director at AIDF, Sonja Ruetzel commented “We are very excited to present our Top 100 as it highlights today’s leading organisations and individuals. Twitter helps promote collaboration across sectors to achieve common aid and sustainable development goals.”

Of the seven UN agencies that made the top 100, the three highest ranked are @WHO (World Health Organisation), @WFP (World Food Programme) and @UNDP (UN Development). 18 personalities feature in the top 100, with the highest three celebrity humanitarian tweeters named as @Shakira, @AliciaKeys and @BillGates, their average 23.6 million followers also placing them as top three of the entire 100. @TheEconomist, @FAONews and @GuardianGDP were amongst the 25 news and blogging sites featured, of which 92% tweet more than once daily. There are also 12 Mobile for Development (M4D) accounts in the top 100, reflecting the growth of this sector, the top three of which are @TechChange, @mHealthSummit and @GSMAm4d.

AIDF holds high-profile events around the world connecting senior representatives of local governments, NGOs, UN agencies, donors, and the private sector, providing a platform for debate and knowledge exchange. This year AIDF is organising three high profile summits focusing on disaster relief, aid response and global development in Bangkok, Washington D.C. and Addis Ababa. For more information and to register, please visit www.aidforum.org/events.

See Who Made to The Top 100 Twitter Accounts List (list is organised by number of followers)

#	Name	Account Handle	Tweets	Following	Joined	Category
1	Shakira	@shakira	3,420	29,400,000	2009	Personality
2	Alicia Keys	@aliciakeys	5,240	21,100,000	2009	Personality
3	Bill Gates	@BillGates	1,557	20,300,000	2009	Personality
4	Aamir Khan	@aamir_khan	268	11,300,000	2009	Personality
5	The Economist	@TheEconomist	30,500	7,440,000	2007	News
6	World Health Organisation	@WHO	14,600	2,100,000	2008	Health
7	Ben Affleck	@BenAffleck	245	1,690,000	2011	Personality
8	Danny Glover	@mrdannyglover	834	1,480,000	2009	Personality
9	Gates Foundation	@gatesfoundation	10,100	1,400,000	2008	Health
10	World Bank	@WorldBank	19,300	1,100,000	2009	News
11	World Food Programme	@WFP	16,200	876,000	2009	Food
12	ONE	@ONECampaign	19,100	823,000	2008	Humanitarian
13	Non-Profit Orgs	@nonprofitorgs	12,300	747,000	2008	NGOs
14	Melinda Gates	@melindagates	1,322	668,000	2010	Personality
15	UN Development	@UNDP	31,100	629,000	2009	News
16	Oxfam International	@Oxfam	21,500	624,000	2007	News
17	Jacqueline Novogratz	@jnovogratz	4,277	509,000	2009	Personality
18	Doctors Without Borders	@MSF_USA	13,200	455,000	2008	Health
19	World Vision	@WorldVision	3,359	454,000	2008	Poverty
20	Jared Cohen	@JaredCohen	3,899	291,000	2009	Personality
21	International Committee of the Red Cross	@ICRC	5,830	260,000	2009	News
22	Charlize Theron	@CharlizeAfrica	1,566	249,000	2009	Personality
23	UN Spokesperson	@UN_Spokesperson	8,605	215,000	2010	News
24	Hans Rosling	@HansRosling	2,881	215,000	2009	Personality
25	Department for International Development	@DFID_UK	11,700	187,000	2009	News
26	Jeffrey D Sachs	@JeffDSachs	6,927	177,000	2010	Personality
27	UN News Centre	@UN_News_Centre	11,400	154,000	2010	News
28	FAO Newsroom	@FAOnews	19,200	152,000	2009	Food
29	Samantha Power	@AmbassadorPower	2,327	142,000		Personality
30	We Can End Poverty	@WeCanEndPoverty	11,100	134,000	2010	Poverty
31	Voice of America	@VOANews	39,000	132,000	2008	News
32	UNOCHA	@UNOCHA	12,300	113,000	2009	Humanitarian
33	Rockefeller Foundation	@RockefellerFdn	11,300	74,900	2010	Humanitarian
34	Overseas Development Institute	@ODIdev	7,259	60,600	2009	News
35	International Rescue Committee	@theIRC	8,664	59,300	2009	Relief
36	Relief Web	@reliefweb	10,700	56,300	2009	News
37	Center for Global Development	@CGDev	12,000	54,600	2008	Poverty
38	AlertNet	@AlertNet	34,800	52,000	2008	News
39	WaterAid UK	@WaterAidUK	11,700	51,900	2008	Water
40	Petra Nemcova	@petranemcova	4,182	46,300	2011	Personality
41	International Food Policy Research Institute	@ifpri	6,964	44,100	2009	Food
42	IRIN News	@irinnews	13,000	42,100	2008	News
43	International Telecommunication Union (ITU)	@ITU	8,546	36,300	2009	Tech
44	100 Resilient Cities	@100ResCities	499	31,500		Relief
45	CGIAR	@CGIAR	22,100	29,300	2011	Food
46	FAO Knowledge	@FAOKnowledge	9,622	28,300	2012	Food
47	DFID Research	@DFID_Research	11,800	28,100	2009	News
48	AidNews	@AidNews	236,000	27,300	2009	News
49	Humanitarian News	@HumanityNews	682,000	25,600	2009	News
50	United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)	@unisdr	6,531	25,600	2009	Relief
51	Josette Sheeran	@JosetteSheeran	6,898	25,000	2009	News
52	EU Humanitarian Aid	@eu_echo	14,100	19,900	2012	Humanitarian
53	Guardian Global Development Professionals	@GuardianGDP	21,000	19,300	2012	News
54	Shelterbox	@ShelterBox	3,781	16,000	2009	Relief
55	Thomson Reuters Foundation	@TR_Foundation	19,900	15,900
56	Agriculture 4 Impact	@Ag4Impact	6,314	13,800	2010	Food
57	TechChange	@TechChange	22,400	13,000	2010	M4D
58	World We Want 2015	@WorldWeWant2015	3,174	12,500	2012	Humanitarian
59	mHealth Summit	@mhealthsummit	3,113	12,400	2010	M4D
60	Action Against Hunger	@acfusa	5,717	11,300	2008	Food
61	International Association of Emergency Managers	@iaem	3,821	11,300	2008	Relief
62	Global Resilience	@grp_resilience	725	9,924		Relief
63	Developmentseed	@developmentseed	2,919	9,723	2008	Tech
64	BBC Media Action	@bbcmediaaction	3,073	9,646	2009	News
65	Action Against Hunger UK	@ACF_UK	10,900	9,045	2009	Food
66	Restless Development	@RestlessDev	7,198	8,549	2010	Humanitarian
67	1000 Days	@ThousandDays	7,796	8,393	2010	Food
68	USAIDs Global Development Lab	@GlobalDevLab	4,094	8,262		Poverty
69	ODI Development Progress	@dev_progress	3,804	7,514	2011	News
70	Avril Benoit	@avrilbenoit	3,534	7,160	2009	News
71	GSMA Mobile4Dev	@GSMAm4d	5,077	6,094	2012	M4D
72	International Medical Corps UK	@IMC_UK	3,725	5,765	2012	Health
73	Chicago Council Ag	@GlobalAgDev	5,345	5,403	2011	Food
74	Resilient Cities	@ICLEI_ResCities	1,554	5,017	2012	Relief
75	NetHope	@NetHope_org	3,759	3,919	2008	NGOs
76	TTC Mobile	@TTC_Mobile	3,470	3,878	2009	M4D
77	ALNAP	@ALNAP	2,066	3,861	2009	Humanitarian
78	USAID Digital	@USAID_Digital	2,563	3,848	2011	M4D
79	Aid Worker Daily	@aidworkerdaily	2,721	3,823	2008	News
80	GSMAmmu	@gsmammu	3,096	3,204	2010	M4D
81	Stanford Food Security	@FoodSecurity_SU	695	2,852	2010	Food
82	mHealth News	@mhealth_news	1,810	2,780		News
83	WB Agriculture	@WB_Agriculture	2,056	2,774	2011	Food
84	Mobile Health Global	@mHealthGlobal	3,120	2,555		M4D
85	AIDF	@FollowAIDF	6,818	2,547	2009	Humanitarian
86	OccuWorld	@OccuWorld	556,000	2,476	2013	News
87	Souktel Mobile	@souktel	3,131	2,153	2009	M4D
88	Telecentre Foundation	@telecentreorg	4,673	1,858	2010	M4D
89	Global Envision	@GlobalEnvision	3,434	1,840	2008	Poverty
90	Five Talents USA	@FiveTalents	11,300	1,719	2009	Humanitarian
91	AidBlogs	@AidBlogs	11,000	1,669	2009	Blogging
92	Relief International	@ReliefIntl	852	1,443	2011	Humanitarian
93	Trickle Up	@TrickleUpNYC	3,521	1,425	2010	Humanitarian
94	Mondato	@mondatoportal	5,762	1,237	2009	M4D
95	BCG on TMT	@BCG_TMT	807	1,045		M4D
96	Obinna Anyadike	@Enugu62	2,064	977	2009	News
97	Technology for Rural Education Development	@ICT4RED	5,404	821		M4D
98	Sonja Ruetzel	@SonjaAIDF	407	360		Personality
99	INSSA	@INSSAOnline	4,303	358	2012	Relief
100	AsianNGO	@AsianNGO	329	149	2012	NGOs

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Disclaimer

The AIDF ‘Top 100 Accounts to Follow on Twitter in 2015’ was compiled based on the AIDF subscribers survey, selecting high-profile accounts in categories of celebrity, editors and CEOs, representatives, foundations, investors, NGOs, UN agencies, newsrooms, non-profit and government organisations connected with humanitarian aid and development particularly relevant to subjects covered in AIDFs upcoming summits in Bangkok, Washington and Addis Ababa. The list is not exhaustive and is our opinion only. Please email us for accounts suggestions for the future lists on agnesg@aidforum.org.