75 Best Twitter Accounts For TV Fans to Follow
To get ready for the 2015 TV season, we've come up with the essential Twitter follows for TV fans.
| | Twitter’s impact on television has been profound in the last few years.
Actors are encouraged to live-tweet while their shows are airing, networks have PR accounts, show accounts, writers’ room accounts and there are enough parody accounts to make you question what is and isn’t real in the social media sphere. The reality is: Twitter is becoming big business for TV. Studies have shown that flurries of tweets and trending hashtags can at times help boost live ratings and Forbes used its cover to question whether Twitter can save live TV or vice-versa.
Before the almighty dollar wins out and Twitter is oversaturated with ads, we want to recognize what makes the social network our favorite TV-watching companion. The people! The funny people, the creative people, the informative people, the superheroes, the bad guys, the troublemakers, the overly opinionated, and all the rest of the golden gods of TV Twitter. The shows don’t end when the credits roll anymore and geeks like us can thank the internet for keeping us busy.
Using an admittedly unscientific format by polling our reviewers and picking our favorites, we put together the 75 best Twitter accounts for TV fans to follow. That means we left a ton of great Tweeters out in the cold, and for that we are sorry. Please point those people out in our comments section.
This list was curated by Chris Longo, Mike Cecchini, Daniel Kurland and includes submissions from Den of Geek contributors John Saavedra, Megan Crouse, Nick Harley, Alec Bojalad and Bridget LaMonica. The accounts are not ranked or in any particular order because that would be exhausting and unfair, so we broke it up by sections: Talent, Resources, Network and Other.
And now here are your 75 Best TV Twitter accounts…
Actors/Writers/Showrunners/Hosts
Peter Gould
Keep your eye on the Breaking Bad writer who will serve as showrunner for Better Call Saul.
Dan Harmon
Between Community and Rick and Morty, Harmon is a must-follow showrunner for 2015.
Shonda Rhimes
ABC’s influential showrunner owns an entire Thursday night block and an army of loyal Twitter followers.
Bryan Fuller
The Hannibal showrunner loves to interact with fans and retweet fan art.
Joss Whedon
Follow the Agents of SHIELD creator and Avengers director for tweets like “Rejected Avengers 2” titles.
Retta
She plays “Donna” on Parks and Recreation and often live tweets shows that she’s watching.
Nathan Fielder
He’s not the most frequent tweeter, but his Nathan for You behind-the-scenes tweets add to an already brillant show.
Jordan Peele
Following one half of Key and Peele is a must for comedy fans.
Keegan-Michael Key
If you’re going to follow one half, you should probably also follow the other.
Kay Cannon
The New Girl and 30 Rock writer has plenty of industry insight and some excellent mom tweets.
Mark Duplass
The League funnyman has proven his writing chops and brings his unique style to Twitter.
Katie Aselton
Duplass’ wife and The League co-star is no slouch either. Judge for yourself who wins the battle for Twitter supremacy in the Duplass-Aselton household. Bonus points for a great handle.
Lena Dunham
After a headline-making year, the Girls star won’t shy away from speaking her mind in 2015.
Liz Meriwether
Let’s face it: We can all use a little New Girl even when it’s not Tuesday night, so follow the brains behind it.
Zooey Deschanel
Tempted to put the entire cast of New Girl on here…
Jake Johnson
OK, just one more.
Joe Mande
The standup comedian and Parks and Rec writer is on the short list for funniest man on Twitter.
Taran Killam
SNL‘s rising star makes us feel like we’re with him in Studio 8H.
H. Jon Benjamin
Archer, Bob’s Burger and an imaginative, hilarious Twitter feed.
Chelsea Peretti
Don’t miss out on random thoughts from the Brooklyn Nine-Nine actress and comedian.
Chris Pratt
The rising star of 2014 is set to take over the world in 2015.
Andrew Daly
Review was named one of the best shows of 2014, and now Andrew Daly has been named a Tweeter to watch for 2015.
Aziz Ansari
Treat yo’ self to a hearty dose of the comedian and Parks and Rec actor’s tweets.
Aisha Taylor
The multi-talented Taylor is the new Whose Line is it Anyway? host and a popular podcaster.
Stephen Colbert
The new Late Show host’s last show is always his best.
Aubrey Plaza
At least one Evil Hag makes this list.
Danny DeVito
Tweeting a picture of your Troll Foot with One Direction lands you in the Top 75.
Glenn Howerton
The Always Sunny actor is the self-proclaimed “Golden God of Twitter.”
Kerry Washington
The Scandal star is the Golden Goddess of Twitter.
Nick Kroll
Nick Kroll and his comedian friends know how to have a good time on Twitter.
Gillian Jacobs
You can see how Community has built such a loyal following when you follow one of its lead actresses in Jacobs.
Mark Gatiss
The English actor and writer has recently shown up in Game of Thrones.
Joel Hodgson
Mystery. Science. Theater. 3000.
John Wesley Ship
The original Flash and Dawson’s dad. What’s not to love here?
Grant Gustin
The new Barry Allen.
Mindy Kaling
On the short list for funniest female on Twitter.
Sean Pertwee
Yes, even Gotham‘s Alfred is into social media these days.
Maurissa Tancharoen
Marvel fans should get acquainted with this Agents of SHIELD writer.
Daniel Tosh
Because being a dick can be an art form.
Andy Cohen
Fans can’t get enough of the Bravo host.
Jaime Primak
The Jersey Belle star is Bravo’s next big thing.
Kevin O’Leary
Shark Tank‘s bad boy brings his Mr. Wonderful-isms to Twitter.
Jimmy Fallon
Bringing The Tonight Show into the social sphere has paid off to the tune of 19 million followers for Fallon.
Jimmy Kimmel
This Jimmy isn’t bad either.
Critics/Journalists/Industry Resources
Emily Nussbaum
The New Yorker TV Critic.
Andy Greenwald
Grantland.com TV critic.
Alan Sepinwall
HitFixTV Critic, What’s Alan Watching Blog.
Todd VanDerWerff
Former A.V. Club scribe, current Vox culture editor.
Tiffany Vogt
Senior Entertainment Reporter for Seat42F.com.
Jeff Jensen
Entertainment Weekly TV critic.
Michael Ausiello
Founder and EIC of TVline.com.
Katie Hasty
HitFix Managing Editor.
The Hollywood Reporter
A go-to source for breaking entertainment industry news.
Variety
Hollywood’s entertainment business trade magazine.
Deadline Hollywood
Usually breaking the news before anyone else.
UK Comedy News
A worthwhile look for fans of British comedy.
TV By the Numbers
The best place to find weekly TV ratings.
My Tracking Board
Industry source for info on “Spec Scripts, Script Sales, Industry Jobs, Talent Attachments, OWAs & Exec Moves.”
Network, Show and Creative Accounts
The Walking Dead AMC
A must follow account on Sunday nights.
Green Arrow TV
A news source for fans of The CW’s Green Arrow.
South Park
Quotes, pictures and behind-the-scenes episode goodies straight from South Park Studios.
Comedy Bang Bang
The account perfectly compliments the humor in the show.
Comedy Central
Making Twitter a little funnier since 2009.
The CW
Network accounts can be pretty dry, but The CW has fun with its content.
Syfy
The network’s ambitious content strategy for 2015 should have the TV fans excited to tune into the sci-fi world.
El Rey Network
A promising first year for Robert Rodriguez’s network has us looking forward to its content in 2015.
Constantine Writers’ Room
Any good HellBlazer should be plugged into Constantine’s writers’ room.
FlashWritersRoom
Because they can write… fast.
Arrow Production Office
Cool notes, pictures and fan art from the Arrow Production team.
Parody/Fan/Misc.
Modern Seinfeld
Your answer to: “What if Seinfeld was still on air?”
Sterling Archer
Archer parody account.
Will McAvoy
The Newsroom is no longer, but we still need someone to tell us how to do the news the right way.
’80s Don Draper
Potential Mad Men spinoff?
Andi Gutierrez
Star Wars Rebels social media guru and the voice of the Rebels Recon.
Sketch Dallies
Daily high-quality fan artwork of your favorite TV characters.
And the bonus accounts:
Den of Geek US
Our lovely little website. Movies, TV, Comics, Games and more. You know the deal.
Den of Geek (UK)
The original Den of Geek, our sister site, and our friends from across the pond.
Did we miss some of your favorite accounts? Let us know in the comment section. Happy tweeting in 2015!