Open Sourcerors Found on Twitter
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Of the many social networking and microblogging tools available, Twitter is the application that gets the most warm and fuzzy comments whenever I talk to people about it. Recently, Network World reported on 12 CIOs Who Twitter, and now it is out with its list of 12 open source movers and shakers who Twitter. While some high-profile folks in the open source community tweet on a protected basis, many others tweet in public. You can easily follow their musings.
Among other very interesting open source influencers on Network World's list, you'll find:
Chris DiBona, chief of open source at Google
Brian Behlendorf, primary developer of the Apache Web Server
Stormy Peters, executive director of the GNOME Foundation
We've covered Identi.ca, the open source alternative to Twitter a couple of times recently. The company recently got funding and Kristin wrote about Identi.ca's prospects here. One has to wonder whether there is room for multiple microblogging services, given the overwhelming popularity of Twitter.
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