Image courtesy of Omar Z
Everyone loves a numbers list 😉 and I just spotted @flawlessbuzz‘s new Top 50 celebrities on Twitter post.
Adam has taken the Sunday Times’ list based on number and followers and run it through twittergrader.
Check out the full post here.
As Twestival approaches, another Twitter charity project appears in the rear view mirror – Tweetin’ hilarious.
In aid of Red Nose Day 2009 it is described as:
A new collection of comedy writing hopes to raise cash for Comic Relief – thanks to the micro-blogging site Twitter.
Journalists Linda Jones and Louise Bolotin are working on collecting and editing submissions for the TwitterTitters book by tweeting about it regularly.
Just one day after first mentioning the initiative on Twitter, they have found an illustrator and first submissions have been received. The deadline is Friday, February 20 at 4pm.
The resulting book will be published by self publishers Lulu.com, with all proceeds going to Comic Relief.
Short stories, scripts, poems and prose will all be accepted for the anthology and the word limit is 1,400 words. Copyright for the work is retained by the writer.
If you fancy yourself as a funnyman (or woman) get Tweeting. For more information, please contact Linda or Louise.
Cross posted with Ruder Finn’s blog
I had a thought last night…….will Twitter will be the tool that breaks the last decade’s obsession with celebrity gossip?
Like so many obsessions, that of following celebrities’ every supposed move in the press, visiting gossip sites and pouring over papped photos is often fuelled by a desire to feel part of that world.
So if today I can follow @celebrity and hear where they are going tonight/what they are wearing to the Oscars/who is the next guest on their show from the horse’s mouth, why do I need to scour the Internet for rumours? And surely Twitter provides the ultimate fan experience? True two-way conversation…..can that ever live up to expectations?
Moving on a step will the smart celebs post pics themselves using services like Twitpic, thus rendering the papped shots in the next morning’s paper or celebrity website out of date and with less narrative?
Wouldn’t a Twitpic of Sarah Harding hammered outside a club posted on Cheryl Cole’s Twitter account spread far and wide and kill the need for papped shots showing the same? {this is an example – as far as I know they don’t have Twitter accounts…yet}
We’ve been due a backlash on the celebrity obsession trend for a while now, will this be it?
If anyone needs an example of what Twitter or other forms of social media can do for their organisation? Ask 
Charity: water on February 13th after one hell of a party has taken place. worldwide
On 12 February 2009 100+ cities around the world will be hosting Twestivals which bring together Twitter communities for an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for charity: water.
The Twestival is organized 100% by volunteers in cities around the world and 100% of the money raised from these events will go directly to support charity: water projects.
charity: water is a non profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations by funding sustainable clean water solutions in areas of greatest need.
The organisers behind this project are volunteers and have shown us all what can happen when you think big and put in a lot of hard work. I’ll be attending the Manchester Twestival -hopefully see you there.
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