50+ Rubyists to Follow on Twitter

The response to an earlier post “Famous Ruby Personalities: Who do you recommend?” was very encouraging and many wrote in asking for the Twitter profiles of these Famous Ruby Personalities and other Ruby developers and bloggers.

But What’s Twitter?

The New York Times says:

Twitter is a simple messaging service that you’ve either heard about a lot or not at all. Either way, it’s a fun and useful tool, well worth trying if you want to reach potential and existing customers, employees or employers.

Rubyists’ List

Victor Goff, Jerry Anning and Willian Molinari of RubyLearning along with Gaveen and Josh Nichols (both Twitter contacts) have painstakingly compiled this list of over 50 Rubyists, in alphabetical order, with a link to their Twitter profile. The following list is not intended to be all-inclusive, but it should give you a great start to following some talented Rubyists.

Note: There are many Rubyists who either are not using Twitter or are keeping their updates private.

1. Amanda Morin – AmandaMorin
2. Brian Marick – marick
3. Bruce Williams – wbruce
4. Chad Fowler – chadfowler
5. Charles Nutter – headius
6. Chris Matthieu – chrismatthieu
7. Chris O’Sullivan – thechrisoshow
8. Chris Wanstrath – defunkt
9. Christian Guimaraes – csgui
10. Dave Thomas – pragdave
11. David A Black – david_a_black
12. David Heinemeier Hansson – d2h
13. Dr Nic Williams – drnic
14. Eric Hodel – drbrain
15. Evan Phoenix – evanphx
16. Ezra Zygmuntowicz – ezmobius
17. Fabio Akita – AkitaOnRails
18. Fabio Cevasco – h3rald
19. Geoffrey Grosenbach – topfunky
20. Giles Bowkett – gilesgoatboy
21. Graeme Mathieson – mathie
22. Gregg Pollack – greggpollack
23. Ian Dees – undees
24. Ilya Grigorik – igrigorik
25. Jamie van Dyke – fearoffish
26. Jamis Buck – jamis
27. Jason Fried – jasonfried
28. Jason Seifer – jseifer
29. Jay Fields – jaycfields
30. Jay Phillips – jicksta
31. Jeff Cohen – jeffcohen
32. Jeremy Kemper – bitsweat
33. Jeremy McAnally – jm
34. Jim Weirich – jimweirich
35. John Lam – john_lam
36. Jonathan Conway – noodlesinmysand
37. Luis Lavena – luislavena
38. Lyle Johnson – lylejohnson
39. Mark McGranaghan – mmcgrana
40. Michael Morin – UziMonkey
41. Mislav Marohnic – mislav
42. Obie Fernandez – obie
43. Ola Bini – olabini
44. Peter Cooper – peterc
45. Peat Bakke – peat
46. Renaud Morvan – neleanth
47. Rich Kilmer – rich_kilmer
48. Ryan Bates – rbates
49. Stuart Halloway – stuarthalloway
50. Tobias Lütke – tobi
51. Thibaut Barrere – thibaut_barrere
52. why the lucky stiff – _why
53. Yehuda Katz – wycats

Update: Keep the feedback coming in. We are updating the list based on your recommendations.

1. Adam Keys – therealadam
2. Amy Hoy – amyhoy
3. Anil Wadghule – anildigital
4. Anthony Eden – aeden
5. Antonio Cangiano – acangiano
6. arjunram – arjunram
7. Brian Dainton – bdainton
8. Chad Pytel – cpytel
9. Chris Chandler – squanderingtime
10. Collin T Miller – collintmiller
11. Courtenay Gasking – court3nay
12. Derek Neighbors – dneighbors
13. Desi Mcadam – desi
14. Eldon Alameda – ealameda
15. Emilio Tagua – miloops
16. Eric Falcao – efalcao
17. Err the Blog – err
18. Ian Warshak – iwarshak
19. Jade Meskill – iamruinous
20. James Golick – jamesgolick
21. Jesse Newland – jnewland
22. Joe O’Brien – objo
23. Joe Ferris – joeferris
24. Jon Yurek – jyurek
25. Laurent Sansonetti – lrz
26. Lindsay Holmwood – auxesis
27. Luke Francl – lof
28. Manik Juneja – mjuneja
29. Marc-Andr̩ Cournoyer Рmacournoyer
30. Michael Bleigh – mbleigh
31. Michael Ivey – ivey
32. Mike Perham – mperham
33. Nick Quaranto – qrush
34. PJ Hyett – pjhyett
35. Pratik Naik – lifo
36. Rick – technoweenie
37. Rick DeNatale – RubyRedRick
38. Sau Sheong Chang – sausheong
39. Scott Chacon – chacon
40. Steve Sanderson – stevesanderson
41. Sur – sur
42. Tim Bray – timbray
43. Tom Preston-Werner – mojombo
44. Vamsee Kanakala – vamsee

The following list is thanks to Peter Cooper and Amanda – Not “Rubyists” per-se, but should still be of interest:

1. Engine Yard – engineyard
2. FiveRuns – fiveruns
3. integrum – integrum
4. MorphLabs – MorphLabs
5. Rails – rails
6. Rails Link Library – rails_bookmarks
7. Ruby Commit – rubyci
8. RubyFlow – rubyflow
9. RubyInside – RubyInside
10. RubyLearning – RubyLearning
11. taazza – taazza

Have we missed out any Rubyists?
You can help. Please feel free to add a link to a Rubyist’s Twitter profile. We would love to hear why you think the particular Rubyist is important to Twitter with. Also, do add a link to your Twitter profile in the comments.