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 – dhh
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 Lutke – tobi
51. Thibaut Barrere – thibaut_barrere
52. Yehuda Katz – wycats
53. Yukihiro Matsumoto – yukihiro_matz

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

1. Adam Keys – therealadam
2. Aman Gupta – tmm1
3. Amr N Tamimi – amrnt
4. Amy Hoy – amyhoy
5. Anil Wadghule – anildigital
6. Anthony Eden – aeden
7. Antonio Cangiano – acangiano
8. arjunram – arjunram
9. Brian Dainton – bdainton
10. Chad Pytel – cpytel
11. Chris Chandler – squanderingtime
12. Claudio Poli – masterkain
13. Collin T Miller – collintmiller
14. Courtenay Gasking – court3nay
15. Dennis Theisen – soleone
16. Derek Neighbors – dneighbors
17. Desi Mcadam – desi
18. Eldon Alameda – ealameda
19. Emilio Tagua – miloops
20. Eric Falcao – efalcao
21. Erik Michaels-Ober – sferik
22. Err the Blog – err
23. Hasham Malik – hasham2
24. Ian Warshak – iwarshak
25. J.J. Cicchelli – monsieur_rock
26. Jade Meskill – iamruinous
27. James Golick – jamesgolick
28. Jesse Newland – jnewland
29. Joe O’Brien – objo
30. Joe Ferris – joeferris
31. Jon Yurek – jyurek
32. Laurent Sansonetti – lrz
33. Lindsay Holmwood – auxesis
34. Luke Francl – lof
35. Manik Juneja – mjuneja
36. Marc-Andre Cournoyer – macournoyer
37. Michael Bleigh – mbleigh
38. Michael Ivey – ivey
39. Mike Perham – mperham
40. Nick Quaranto – qrush
41. PJ Hyett – pjhyett
42. Pratik Naik – lifo
43. Rick – technoweenie
44. Rick Roberts – ricroberts
45. Sau Sheong Chang – sausheong
46. Scott Chacon – chacon
47. Steve Sanderson – stevesanderson
48. Sur – sur
49. Sven Fuchs – svenfuchs
50. Tim Bray – timbray
51. Tom Preston-Werner – mojombo
52. 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. Highruns, Inc. – highruns
4. integrum – integrum
5. MorphLabs – MorphLabs
6. Rails – rails
7. Rails Link Library – rails_bookmarks
8. Rock & Code – rockncode
9. Ruby Commit – rubyci
10. RubyFlow – rubyflow
11. RubyInside – RubyInside
12. RubyLearning – RubyLearning
13. Ruby News – ruby_news
14. Setfire Media – setfire
15. 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.