Pete Cashmore

About Pete Cashmore

Pete Cashmore (born September 18, 1985) is a widely-recognized social media expert, technology consultant and social media journalist. In 2005, while working as a web technology consultant, he founded the blog Mashable, which is now regarded as one of the top blogs in the world. The site focuses on its slogan, "all that's new on the Web", including information about Social networks, websites, technology and various other content.

Cashmore was selected as a top 25 Forbes Web Celeb in 2007^[2] and was also featured in BusinessWeek.^[3]. In 2009, Cashmore was chosen as one of Inc Magazine's 30 Under 30, Forbes' Top 25 Web Celebs and the Huffington Posts' Top 10 Game Changers 2009.^[4]

Cashmore writes a weekly column about social media and networking for CNN.com, in a move to make the site more featured around more popular technology.^[5]

Pete Cashmore's Twitter page, @mashable, is one of Twitter's 40 most-followed pages, with 1.7 million followers, thanks to its inclusion on the Suggested User List, an editorially hand-selected guide from Twitter.^[6]. Pete Cashmore has also been crowned by INQ Mobile as the most influential Briton and most influential Twitter user in the world on 2009.^[7]