[Go here for an updated celebrity twitter chart]
I’ve revisited last week’s Twitter celebrity chart, adding in a few names that I missed (and I’m sure there will be others).
| Celeb | Followers | Joined |
| Stephen Fry | 173,947 | 211 days ago |
| Jonathan Ross | 90,370 | 73 days ago |
| Phillip Schofield | 62,187 | 30 days ago |
| John Cleese | 61,771 | 1.2 years ago |
| Chris Moyles | 53,864 | 8 days ago |
| Russell Brand | 34,370 | 15 days ago |
| Coldplay | 30,963 | 29 days ago |
| Alan Carr | 29,602 | 229 days ago |
| Neil Gaiman | 24,585 | 40 days ago |
| Richard Branson | 23,623 | 183 days |
| Andi Peters | 23,400 | 8 days ago |
| Jimmy Carr | 22,562 | 108 days ago |
| Fearne Cotton | 22,023 | 11 days ago |
| Charlie Brooker | 13,396 | 19 days ago |
| Rob Brydon | 11,442 | 25 days ago |
| Danny Wallace | 8,848 | 22 days ago |
| Dave Gorman | 8,517 | 25 days ago |
| Eddie Izzard | 7,914 | 236 days ago |
| Jemima Kiss | 7,591 | 2 years ago |
| Andy Murray | 7,468 | 313 days ago |
I’m too, er, indolent to indicate chart movements on this, but the big stories are that Stephen Fry has put on almost sixty thousand followers in a week, whilst Phillip Schofield has added thirty-five thousand followers to take third place in the chart.
Meanwhile Chris Moyles takes number five in the chart after just eight days on Twitter. There seems to be a natural affinity between DJs and Twitter – Twitter is a fantastic feedback loop for them.
To put the chart into perspective, the top five here also rank in the top thirty of Twitterholic’s global chart of Twitter users, ahead of illuminati like Al Gore.
I’ve added Coldplay to the chart, who obviously aren’t a single personality, but I guess they are famous. I sense the dead hand of their record company behind the tweets, but perhaps I’m wrong: they are currently appealing directly to their 30k followers to vote for them in the Brits, so it will be interesting to see if this ploy works. If it does, it’s bound to be widely copied.
Update: I forgot about David Mitchell – I think he will be somewhere around the Rob Brydon level, tragically easing Andy Murray out of the top twenty!