The Top 100 Must

Twitter. 140 characters. Short. Sweet. And super valuable.

If there was one fundamental change in journalism over the past 20 years that has changed the landscape, Twitter clearly ranks as one of the biggest game changers. It has allowed those that report news to have another platform to quickly provide information, and those that use it to follow news can get it on Twitter, often times instantaneously, and minutes or hours before traditional news outlets post articles.

For what most of us on Forbes do, Twitter is indispensable. My account, @BizballMaury, will post links to my stories on Forbes, but often additional tidbits around them, other news that can be breaking in nature, and tweets from others. I will spend most of my waking day on it, either combing it for information or conversing about sports.

So, with Twitter being so critical, it seemed only fitting to go through and report on the top sports business accounts for 2014. A couple of notes about the list. Some of the accounts posted will not scream 'sports'. Some involve more traditional business arms such as broadcast television and digital media, both of which are key to how we consume sports. Also, I follow each and every accounts for PR account within every club across the major sports leagues, and motor racing leagues as well as all the beat writers for each team; a sizable list. These alone would cover well over 100 accounts. My blanket statement is follow each of those, on top of this list. Finally, these are in no particular order. There is no #1 because what is important one day may be overshadowed by another the next. I very purposely scrambled the list up. Make sure and comb through each one, or better yet, take my word and follow all 100. You won't regret it.

@SportsMoneyBlog - Forbes SportsMoney, Sports and Money. Your two favorite things.

Michael Ozanian, and the rest of the Forbes sports business staff and contributors will push their articles to this account. From franchise valuations, and everything in-between.

@Ourand_SBJ - John Ourand, Media Reporter, Sports Business Journal

Ourand always seems to be on top of the television landscape as it interests with sports.