Us Open Source people have taken awhile to grasp the whole “Twitter” thing. But we are starting to come around. And although we are not “tweeting” as much as others, there is still an Open Source presence on Twitter. Here are a list of 16 notable people you should follow on Twitter. I want to pardon myself in advance. I am #16 on the list. I had too!

1.  Richard Stallman – http://twitter.com/GNU_RMS
the one who started all this!

2.  Linus Torvalds – http://twitter.com/linustorvalds
the master of linux himself

3.  Matt Mullenweg – http://twitter.com/photomatt
founder of wordpress

4.  Ozh Richard – http://twitter.com/ozh
wordpress plugin guru

5.  Lester Chan – http://twitter.com/gamerz
wordpress plugin guru

6.  Dries Buytaert – http://twitter.com/dries
founder of Drupal

7.  Ryan Szrama – http://twitter.com/mr_ubercart
ubercart creator

8.  Biz Stone – http://twitter.com/biZ
co-founder of Twitter. On the advisor board for Elgg

9.  Alex King – http://twitter.com/alexkingorg
web deveoper and founder of crowd favorite. Another wordpress guru

10.  Danese Cooper – http://twitter.com/divadanese
Danese was a long-time open source evangelist for Sun, and is now in a similar position at Intel; she is also a board member of Open Source Initiative (OSI).

11.  Tristan Nitot – http://twitter.com/Nitot
Tristan is a long-time Mozilla contributor, and is co-founder and President of Mozilla Europe.

12.  Jim Whitehurst – http://twitter.com/JWhitehurst
President and CEO of Red Hat

13.  Roy Rubin – http://twitter.com/royrubin05
Founder and CEO of Magento

14.  Yochai Benkler – http://twitter.com/yochaibenkler
Author of The Weathy of Networks and open source philospher

15.  Dana Blankenhorn – http://twitter.com/DanaBlankenhorn
Writer of the Linux and Open Source column on zdnet

16.  Chase Sagum – http://twitter.com/chasesagum
me