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Top twenty celebrities on Twitter

February 23, 2009 by Mike Teasdale

[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!

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