Must-Follow Research In Motion People on Twitter

By Kevin Michaluk on 15 Oct 2012 03:13 pm

@crackberrykevin w/ RIM's @asaunders and @alexkinesella

Want to follow #TEAMBLACKBERRY on twitter, but you're not sure where to begin? Don't worry, @crackberry has you covered with our new RIM People on Twitter List!

Beyond the official @blackberry and @blackberrydev accounts, these days you can find plenty of Research In Motion employees on twitter. And to save you the trouble of trying to hunt down everybody, we've put together a list and will be growing it and keeping it up to date.

To get the tweets rolling, we've selected the most-active RIM tweeters that we know the best - lots of the folks on the list are the ones we talk to regularly and get to see at events like BlackBerry World and BlackBerry Jam.

And in case you're wondering, no, RIM's CEO Thorsten Heins is not yet on twitter, but we're sure hoping he puts that @blackberryceo handle to use soon. Hit up the link for low to see the twitter list, and keep reading for the full by group and title breakdown.

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Developers & Developer Relations

@asaunders	Alec Saunders	Vice President, Developer Relations
@bobtaniguchi	Bob Taniguchi	Senior Director BlackBerry Evangelism
@ajeppsson	Anders Jeppsson	Head Gaming
@n_adam_stanley	Adam Stanley	Team Lead, Developer Relations
@brcewane	Tim Neil	Director, Application Platform & Tools Product Management
@peterptng	Peter Ng	Biz/Dev, Apps Team
@berryvic	Victoria Berry	Senior Manager PR and Social
@alexkinsella	Alex Kinsella	Developer Relations
@itssamlowe	Sam Lowe	Developer Relations
@bzubert	Brian Zubert	Developer Relations
@devrelemea	William Vablais	Head of Developer Relations EMEA
@mdwrim	Martin Woolley	Sr. Application Development Consultant EMEA, NFC Specialist
@jcmrim	John Murray	Sr. Application Development Consultant EMEA, NFC Specialist
@ERahnen	Erin Rahnenfuehrer	Application Development Consultant
@melle	Melanie Baker	Community Manager, Developer Relations
@bryantafel	Bryan Tafel	Developer Evangelist
@demianborba	Demian Borba	Developer Evangelist
@filos	Luca Filigheddu	Developer Evangelist
@party_pat	Patrick Mollins	Developer Evangelist
@blackberryluca	Luca Sale	Developer Evangelist
@ddluk	Łukasz Dzierżak	Developer Evangelist
@chadtatro	Chad Tetreault	Developer Relations
@AshNazir	Ash Nazir	Developer Relations

BlackBerry Blogs & Events

@DonnyHalliwell	Don Halliwell	Blog Manager
@evanthor	Evan Thor	Content Manager
@luke_reimer	Luke Reimer	Business Blog
@TyWilliamsCA	Ty Williams	Help Blog

PR, Marketing & Communications

@robinbienfait	Robin Bienfait	CIO
@HeidiDavidson	Heidi Davidson	Senior VP, Corporate Communications
@gadway	Jeff Gadway	Sr. Manager, BlackBerry 10 Product Marketing
@KiyomiRutledge	Kiyomi Rutledge	Public Relations Manager
@Patti_McK	Patti McKague	Director, Communications and Marketing
@TenilleKennedy	Tenille Kennedy	Philanthropy and Communications Relations
@BlackBerry_Amy	Amy Jones	Senior Director, Global Corporate Communications
@churley	Carolyn Hurley	Social Media
@jlpitts	Jen Pitts	Marketing Manager - BBM Team
@kerribirtch	Kerri Birtch	Social Media Manager
@melaniemasson	Melanie Masson	Social Media Manager
@Theolip	Oliver Pilgerstorfer	PR and Communications
@veronchiquita	Veronica Orzechowski	PR and Social Media
@_michaelpereira	Michael Pereira	Infrastructure Manager, Digital Marketing
@PascalRivette	Pascal Rivette	NOC - Communications Administrator

Product & Software

@MichaelClewley	Michael Clewley	Director, Handheld Software Product Management
@vik_1on1	Vivek Bhardwaj	Head of Software Portfolio
@sebmarineau	Sebastien Marineau	Head of BlackBerry OS
@gehr	Gary Klassen	Principle Architect, BlackBerry (& Inventor of BBM!)
@juliandolce	Julian Dolce	Platform Lead, QNX
@QNX_Paul	Paul Leroux	PR Manager, QNX
@mrmstaikos	Matt Staikos	Matt from the Browser Team at RIM
@petervalin	Peter Valin	Manager, App World
@EvgueniaPopova	Evguenia Popova	App World Marketing
@pelegri	Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart	Sr. Director for Open Source
@DerekAlldritt	Derek Alldritt	Web Infrastructure Architect
@cleerox	Claude Leroux	Team Lead, Service Manager Relay & PSM
@sdlmcveigh	Sean McVeigh	Software Developer, QNX
@ScottDeckers	Scott Deckers	Carrier Product Manager
@alexbowker	Alex Bowker	Ecosystem Business Development

Honorary RIM Person to Follow

@herrlesmarket

Trevor Herrle

Owner of Herrle's Country Market in Waterloo, a RIM employee favorite. Trevor loves BlackBerry almost as much as I do!

* Note to RIM People on Twitter - If you're not on the list and want to be here (or are on the list and don't want to be here) or we've screwed up your job title or anything like that and want it fixed, just send us a DM to @crackberry or email to sitesupport@crackberry.com

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33 comments

vx1 Oct 15, 2012 at 3:19 pm

great great Idea this post :)!

Vic_Franklyn Oct 16, 2012 at 5:38 am

Its like everyone and their grandma have either a facebook or twitter account.
______________________
Tablets are incredible

jordandrews90 Oct 15, 2012 at 3:20 pm

What do you mean by Evangelist?

Bold_until_Hybrid_Comes Oct 15, 2012 at 3:21 pm

thanks kevin. this was a good idea for a post.

Mummy2 Oct 15, 2012 at 4:57 pm

You're not serious, are you?

Bold_until_Hybrid_Comes Oct 15, 2012 at 9:20 pm

Why wouldn't I be

berrybait Oct 15, 2012 at 3:28 pm

You have totally forgotten about @BlackBerryPig ! :)

berrybait Oct 15, 2012 at 3:42 pm

But seriously. @blackberrypig is a real RIM employee. We don't know who yet, but there is some hidden agenda there.

FuzzyFish Oct 15, 2012 at 7:10 pm

Was just going to say, where's @BlackBerryPig?!?

ayekon Oct 15, 2012 at 3:29 pm

You have enough hair for all 3 of you

advil_yum Oct 15, 2012 at 3:30 pm

lol, you beat me by a few seconds

advil_yum Oct 15, 2012 at 3:29 pm

one of these dudes has a LOT more hair than the others! ;-)

adamschuetze Oct 15, 2012 at 3:31 pm

Yeah, the term evangelist has some seriously bad connotations.

bobaloo Oct 15, 2012 at 5:31 pm

An evangelist is literally one who brings good news.

It's the perfect name for the job title.

It also perfectly describes blackberry enthusists who actively advocate for BB.

Quit being part of the misintentioned machine that turns everything into a scandal of political correctness.

TheMarco Oct 15, 2012 at 3:31 pm

Important omission:

Eduardo Pelegri, Sr. Director Open Source at RIM.

@pelegri

Very cool guy too!

shebmiller Oct 15, 2012 at 3:34 pm

Yeeeaaaaahhh! Awesome post, these guys and gals are great!

adamschuetze Oct 15, 2012 at 3:35 pm

Cool list by the way.

@azeis has a good idea on Twitter, of putting together a list of @crackberry people to follow.

ignites Oct 15, 2012 at 3:54 pm

Heres a few missing that i want to give a shout out to!!

Aaron Ardiri @ardiri Dev Relations
Ryan Hearty @Hearteh Team Lead / Vendor Management (App World for Devs)
Eduardo Pelegri, @pelegri Sr. Director Open Source at RIM.
Laurent Hasson @ldhasson Web Dev Evangelist

+ many more!

Kevin Michaluk Oct 15, 2012 at 3:59 pm

Keep them coming! We'll get them all added.

jcarty Oct 15, 2012 at 4:16 pm

I told Adam some already but forgot:

@robbieDubya
@sarahtingle

ignites Oct 15, 2012 at 4:21 pm

@NikiDussault is not part of dev relations but shes a mass twitter-er from rim =) so an honourable mention!

digitalhomeboy Oct 15, 2012 at 4:11 pm

How did you forget the Pig?
I know you say people in your post, but I think mentions of the other handles would be great as well.

@BlackBerryHelp - Help
@BlackBerryBlog - News & Blog
@BlackBerry4Biz - Business
@BlackBerry_MEX - Mexico
@UK_BlackBerry - UK
@BlackBerry_AU - Australia
@BlackBerryFra - France
@BlackBerryID - Indonesia
@BlackBerryBantu - Indonesia
@BlackBerryMY - Malaysia
@BlackBerryIN - India
@BlackBerryESP - Spanish
@BlackBerryNgcio - Spanish Business Software
@BlackBerry_AR - Argentina
@BlackBerry_BR - Brasil
@BlackBerry_CO - Colombia
@BlackBerry_VE - Venezuela
@ME_BlackBerry - Middle East

@RIMcareers - Careers
@RIMstudents - Careers/Students

robsteve Oct 15, 2012 at 4:34 pm

Why not just follow the CrackBerry Blog? I am sure if anything important is tweeted, it will show up on the front page of CrackBerry.

bb10imin Oct 15, 2012 at 4:48 pm

I'm a RIM employee, but I'm not sure if my boss would be too happy with my twitter name being posted here so I'll remain anonymous. :)

BB_Bmore Oct 15, 2012 at 4:53 pm

Wow had no idea about all these handles. To answer the above question ......never mind that's just a silly question. Anywhoo ill be sure to follow everyone on the list because these are exciting times #TeamBlackBerry #BB10Believe, if you want to follow a fellow BB lover you can follow me and ill follow back ;) @Baltimorebred

Btw can team CrackBerry find out what's next for PlayBook? 2.2? Or maintenance until BlackBerry10? What's the deal CB??

canuckvoip Oct 15, 2012 at 6:55 pm

Oh man... You forgot Larry McDonough ‏@lmcdunna
This man personally went to see a supplier of mine who had decided to cease dev on BB. He turned them around and got them to go to the BBJam in Cali and re-start dev for BB10.
Way to go Larry!!!!!!!!!!!
:>)

Clinto Oct 15, 2012 at 8:03 pm

Just an abstract comment... Judging by all 3 guys in the picture.. They all have "slitty eyes". I'm guessing that pic was taken around 11:30 - Midnight after 6 or more beers.

Looks like they were having a great time though!! Makes me want to go! :)

reich2004 Oct 15, 2012 at 11:22 pm

Kevin, as the face of crackberry, you're kinda looking like a bum lately. That is all.