Crowdsourcing has become one of the hottest trends on the Web. But who are the real experts?

Here is our list of hottie Crowdsourcing leaders and a link to their Twitter page. Follow them and watch the space unfold.

Jeff Howe – invented the term (Crowdsourcing) in the first place – der

Jake Nickell – founder of Threadless. The first really cool Crowdsourced company gathering designers to produce funky t-shirts

Matt Flannery – co-founder of Kiva. A Crowdfunding outfit helping alleviate poverty. Give generously

Jimmy Wales – Wikipedia founder. One big Crowdsourcing project. Controversial but cool

Tim O’Reilly – O’Reilly Media. ‘Cos apparently he’s the most ‘powerful voice’ in open source. And open source led to Crowdsource

Philip Letts – founder of blur Group. The first real Crowdsourcing group. Figured Agency 3.0. ‘Nuff said

Robert Scoble – aka scobleizer. ‘Cos he talks about pretty much everything tech and Web. So statistically he’s gotta cover Crowdsourcing

Chokha – one manic Crowdsourcing and open source Twitterer

We’ve probably missed a bunch. If we have, please add them to the comments below and we’ll keep updating the list at the blurGroup Twitter page.