# Tracking Ruby on Twitter

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tracking-ruby-on-twitter/137563>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 14, 2008, 7:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tracking-ruby-on-twitter/137563 "2008-05-14T07:23:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![makenai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@makenai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/makenai)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 7:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tracking-ruby-on-twitter/137563/1 "2008-05-14T07:23:10Z")

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Hi all,

I was having trouble finding some interesting rubyists to follow on  
twitter. Since my company is already playing around with tracking  
things on twitter, I took a bunch of ruby & rails related terms and  
created a ruby specific tracker. It’s kind of basic, but I thought  
that some of you might also find it useful:

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>
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Also looking for suggestions for other terms to track (current ones  
are listed in the upper left).

Let me know what you think… thanks!

-Pawel

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**Author:** ![makenai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@makenai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/makenai)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tracking-ruby-on-twitter/137563/2 "2008-05-15T21:01:35Z")

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Pawel S.:

> I was having trouble finding some  
> interesting rubyists to follow on twitter.

What about polling similar stuff out of Hashtags? I’d guess it has  
better signal-to-noise ratio than simply grepping the full Twitter  
firehose (if that’s what you’re doing now).

– Shot

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**Author:** ![makenai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@makenai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/makenai)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tracking-ruby-on-twitter/137563/3 "2008-05-15T21:24:51Z")

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Hi Piotr,

Hash tags are cool if you set out with the idea of using them to  
announce something specific (like an event). The problem is that they  
feel unnatural, they break the conversational tone, and the great  
majority of people don’t use them. In this case, I think it’s much  
cooler to get an overview of of the random chatter from time to time  
and just tune in (click through) when something seems interesting. 🙂

-Pawel