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Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:04:00 +0000

[...] So, who can we get to come in. Some famous person on Twitter. Doesn’t have to be Australian – though HamishAndAndy might be a start. Perhaps from 50 Famous Twits? [...]

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Stilgherrian · Bonus Link Megamix for February (s far) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:04:55 +0000

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By: Judy King

Judy King — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:21:50 +0000

Hi Laurel

Have you seen Shifted Pixels @nickhac list of Australia’s Top 50 Twitter Influencers? Still growing and changing too..

http://www.shiftedpixels.com.au/blog/2008/10/australias-top-50-twitter-influencers.html

By: Niina

Niina — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:21:44 +0000

Not super duper famous (maybe one day) but here’s a few:

Bands + Band Members:
http://twitter.com/thedevotedfew : the Devoted Few
http://twitter.com/BazAdamson : Member of the Devoted Few
http://twitter.com/benfletcher : Member of the Devoted Few
http://twitter.com/DevotedDave : Member of the Devoted Few
http://twitter.com/yveskleinblue : Yves Klein Blue
http://twitter.com/expatriateband : Expatriate

“Celebs”:
http://twitter.com/triplejdools : Triple J’s Scott Dooley
http://twitter.com/triplejmornings : Triple J’s Zan Rowe
http://twitter.com/triplejbrekkie : Triple J’s Robbie, Marieke + the Doctor
.. and it looks like most Triple J shows have recently hopped on Twitter

By: Laurel Papworth

Laurel Papworth — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:50:34 +0000

Ok, I’m ignorant .. who are the Grates? *cringes* I can see they are aussie on their myspace, but but are they famous? Or you the lead singer on weekends, Barry?

By: barry

barry — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:45:48 +0000

the grates: http://twitter.com/thegrates

By: Laurel Papworth

Laurel Papworth — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:43:14 +0000

I know, @skribe got me. One glance at his Twitter stream (he calls Kevin Rudd, Kevin Rubb) shoulda told me *sighs* someone beat @skribe up. Please.

By: Derek Jenkins

Derek Jenkins — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:36:20 +0000

http://twitter.com/TomPetrovski *is not* the real Tom Piotrowski from CommSec #fakeceleb

By: Laurel Papworth

Laurel Papworth — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:55:54 +0000

@johnlacey how funny! my partner @garyphayes knows @imogenheap well. In fact, she’s the musician that gave him permission to use her work for a machinima that YouTube took down (she made them put it up again). He taught her at music school in London I think. She’s coming here later in the year.

@Stil I just need the list for a TV/Film/Writers workshop I’m running later in the year. I don’t follow any of the Times ones, only the Aussie ones, and only cos I’ve met them in real life. But I’m figuring writers and TV producers will like George Lucas and Neil Gaiman being up on Twitter.

@martin see @Stil’s message
Actually my lists don’t work as linkbait. I don’t have “our” twitter group on the lists so they don’t blog and link to themselves on the list.

@skribe thanks for tweeting http://twitter.com/TomPetrovski (CommSec guy on Channel Ten late night news)

…and everyone, to repeat, the Times list is the international one (add your own faves if you want). I’m looking for famous Aussies on Twitter.

By: martin english

martin english — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:36:10 +0000

There’s international fame, national fame and local fame, fame across certain interests, and so on, including mixes of both. For example, everyone in Wollongong AND everyone into motorcycle racing knows who Wayne Gardner is. Outside those ‘demographics’ (?) no one even cares.

So what ? So don’t feel concerned that you don’t know who Jimmy Fallon is. I don’t. I do know who Wil Carling is (well, maybe… is the twitter Will Carling the Ex England RU captain ?) Again, if you’re not interested in a certain type of english humour, then Fry, Cleese, Palin are actually spurious entries in any list.

So these lists are really all about Linkbaiting (and it worked

PS in r/l, I look very much like the image associated with Stilgherrian’s comment. Hopefully (for his sake, not mine) we’re not related.

martin english’s last blog post..martin_english: @SilkCharm starting point is that CE is a retired auto worker, hates that the n’hood has changed, defends family next foor against gangs

By: @DDsD

@DDsD — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:27:10 +0000

You are missing Stephen Colbert @StephenColbert with 48,972 Followers currently. Though whether you argue he is a composite character & work of fiction or an actual person is one for debate.

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:20:06 +0000

As a "God amongst Men" (thank you), I've been amused at all the huffing and puffing that's come from certain quarters about how the "interesting" list was composed. I think some of those folks forgot that: 1. NEWS.com.au is about generating traffic for the advertisers and a bit of pot-stirring works wonders; 2. what's "interesting" depends on what you're interested in, so I'm sure some people find my high-volume Twitterstream to be anything but interesting, as you rightly note; and 3. "interesting" does not mean "important". Which segues nicely to two points about fame and celebrity... 1. I don't even recognise half of the names on The Times' list, which means I'm either out of touch or getting old. Or both. 2. One of Stephen Fry's first blog posts was Let Fame, about the very nature of that thing called "fame". Enjoy! Stilgherrian’s last blog post..Two more articles on Internet Censorship