ETN Releases 2026 ETN100 List of Top 100 Tech Influencers on X

On September 23, ETN (ETN Show / etnshow) released its 2026 ETN100 list, ranking the 100 most influential tech accounts on X. The list drew wide resharing and discussion across the AI/tech community.

Confirmed

• The list is tiered by influence, with the top 20 dubbed "Gods of the Timeline." According to @FinanceYF5, these include signüll, OpenAI's roon, Paul Graham, and Bryan John, among others.
• e/acc leader beffjezos made the cut and reshared the list, joking that he was proud to be part of the "TL royalty."
• Several listed accounts and industry voices reshared the discussion: NextTokenShow host @threepointone shared the news of co-host RhysSullivan's inclusion, quipping that the other hosts couldn't care less about missing out; after @ns123abc made the list, lukeknight praised him as a prime example of high-volume daily posting.
• @zacharynado and several other well-known tech accounts circulated it as a "must-follow" list.

Why it matters

The list is a textbook example of the X tech community's "self-ranking" culture: launched by an in-crowd outlet and measured by influence and activity. The identities of top picks (like OpenAI's roon) also indirectly reflect how dominant AI topics have become in X tech discourse. Within a day of release, the list generated multi-level reshare chains, offering a revealing cross-section of how influence is distributed across the tech community.

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1 near-duplicate retellings: zacharynado