Open source microbloggers you should follow

If you're a fan of Identi.ca or Twitter and want to follow the alpha geeks of the free sofware world, we've put together a list of people to make it easy for you to find them.

This is the second version of this list - there are probably dozens of important geeks missing. Please help us fill it out by sending a shout to @tuxradar on Identi.ca or Twitter if we've missed someone, and make sure you send a few words about what they do. Please also get in touch if someone listed below is on Identi.ca as well as Twitter.

Software

• Brian Aker - MySQL - Twitter
• Aaron Bockover - Banshee - Twitter
• Larry Ewing - F-Spot - Twitter
• Gnome - Twitter
• Adrian Holovaty - Django - Twitter
• Michael Hutchinson - MonoDevelop - Twitter
• Dave Jones - Linux kernel - Twitter
• KDE - Twitter
• Greg Kroah-Hartman - Linux kernel - Identi.ca
• Robert Love - Google Android - Twitter
• LXDE - Identi.ca
• Sam Ruby - Apache activist - Twitter
• Randal L. Schwartz - Perl advocate - Twitter
• Aaron Seigo - KDE/Plasma - Identi.ca, Twitter
• Mike Shaver - Mozilla - Twitter
• Joe Shaw - Beagle - Twitter
• Jeff Stedfast - Moonlight - Twitter
• Greg Stein - Subversion - Twitter
• VirtualBox - Twitter
• Simon Willison - Django - Twitter

Distros

• Crunchbang - Identi.ca
• Debian - Identi.ca
• Fedora - Identi.ca, Twitter
• Paul Frields - Fedora project leader - Identi.ca, Twitter
• Greg DeKoenigsberg - Red Hat - Twitter
• Ken VanDine - Foresight Linux - Identi.ca, Twitter
• Jono Bacon - Ubuntu community manager - Identi.ca, Twitter
• Joe Brockmeier - OpenSUSE community manager - Twitter
• Linux Mint - Twitter
• Nat Friedman - Novell - Twitter
• Mandriva - Twitter
• OpenSolaris - Twitter
• OpenSUSE - Twitter
• Philip Newborough - Crunchbang Linux developer - Twitter
• Red Hat - Twitter
• Scott James Remnant - Ubuntu lead developer - Twitter
• Ubuntu - Twitter

Programming

• Andi Gutmans - CEO of Zend - Twitter
• Miguel de Icaza - Mono project leader - Identi.ca, Twitter
• Rasmus Lerdorf - PHP creator - Twitter
• Guido van Rossum - Python BDFL - Twitter

Groups

• Apache Software Foundation - Twitter
• EFF - Twitter
• Firefox - Twitter
• Google - Twitter
• Google Summer of Code - Identi.ca, Twitter
• Linux Foundation - Identi.ca, Twitter
• Mozilla - Identi.ca
• OLPC - Twitter
• Sourceforge - Twitter
• Sun Microsystems - Twitter

Geek thinkers

• Chris Anderson - TED curator - Twitter
• Chris DiBona - Open source program manager at Google Twitter
• Cory Doctorow - Digital rights activist - Twitter
• Edd Dumbill - Rails hacker and author Identi.ca, Twitter
• Marcel Gagne - Author and columnist - Identi.ca
• Leslie Hawthorn - Google geek herder - Twitter
• Jim Jagielski - Apache and OSI activist - Twitter
• Larry Lessig - Political activist - Identi.ca, Twitter
• Russ Nelson - open source activist - Twitter
• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols - FOSS author and columnist - Twitter
• Bruce Perens - open source activist - Identi.ca, Twitter
• Jon Phillips - Creative Commons activist - Identica, Twitter
• Simon Phipps - Chief open source office at Sun - Twitter
• Tim O'Reilly - CEO of O'Reilly media - Identi.ca, Twitter
• Karlie Robinson - Open source advocate - Twitter
• Roy Schestowitz - Free software freedom fighter - Identica
• Doc Searls - Free software columnist - Identi.ca, Twitter
• Kathy Sierra - conference speaker and general smart person - Twitter
• Wil Wheaton - geek celebrity and author - Twitter

And of course...

• TuxRadar - a website that talks about Linux now and then - Identi.ca, Twitter

Note: some people update Twitter and Identi.ca at the same time, whereas others have switched from one to the other. If you find one of the feeds goes quiet, try the other.

You should follow us on Identi.ca or Twitter