My most prolific Twitter followers

At the time of writing I had (according to Twitter) just posted my 18000th tweet, and what a wonderful tweet it was, a silly musical pun mashing Glenn Fray’s hit with the guy who claimed to have invented the incandescent lightbulb, and hooked on the #boffinsongs/#scientistlyrics meme triggered recently by Kat Arney and myself.

Actually, it wasn’t my 18000th tweet, it was approximately my 6000th, but there was a Twitter glitch in which counts were somehow multiplied by 3. Anyway, to mark the anomalous milestone, I thought I’d pick out a few of the people who follow me on Twitter who are more or less as tweetolific as I seem to be. Originally I was going to give you their counts but rob (see below) confirmed my suspicions about the gwitch.

So, first up among my most prolific Twitter followers is none other than Rob Watts – just a dude interested in people and technology – also human and prone to randomness like the best and worst of us. He’s tweeted a staggering number of times and makes Stephen Fry look like…well…small fry.

Then there’s Jason_Pollock – Filmmaker, Writer, and Activist. I just directed, The Youngest Candidate, a feature film about teens who run for public office.

Next is Wayne Smallman, aka – octane – British businessman, writer, PHP developer, web designer, solver of problems, Mac user, social media realist, and the guy behind the Blah, Blah! Technology blog.

Then comes BoraZ. Science communication: blogging, publishing, teaching. Online Community Manager at Public Library of Science. Open Access.

Kim Woodbridge (kwbridge) is almost as prolific among my followers – (Anti) Social Development, Freelance WordPress Consultant, Blogging Publisher, Aston Villa Fan.

Berci – Medical doctor, founder of Webicina.com, health 2.0 consultant, blogger; Second Life resident, Wikipedia administrator doing PhD in genetics.

Laikas is doing well too. Medical Librarian, former scientist, mom, wife and human.

Dr Kiki Sanford who was joint 47th with me in the Shorty Awards, which neither of us chased this year (well, we didn’t), has tweeted umpteen times.

Science writer, Japanophile, consumer Mun Keat Looi (ayasawada) is riding high in the prolific charts.

Alistair Charlton – 20-year-old blogger, F1 fan, podcaster, Apple fanatic and student studying Journalism and English at Kingston University, London – is a smidgeon more prolific than I at the time of writing.

Jo Brodie – Science Information Officer, Diabetes UK & Public Engagement Co-ordinator, UCLIC, UCL. Views are my own etc. etc. – has made thousands of tweets since I first chatted to her about how wonderful the service is.

JackofKent also tweets a lot but doesn’t quite measure up to the sciencebase count. Occasional [The irony of the word occasional may be lost here?] tweets with liberal views on law and public debates. Allen writes the Jack of Kent Blog and is convenor of Westminster Skeptics.

Ed Yong is an also ran compared to those guys but worthy of a mention nevertheless. Triple-reassortant science writer: blogger @ Not Exactly Rocket Science, freelance journalist, sci-comms @ Cancer Research UK. Lives in London, married to Alice.

Also doing well is Andrew Maynard (2020science). DrShock (Walter van den Broek) has tweeted a similar number of times.

If you also follow me on Twitter and you’ve tweeted more than me do let me know and I’ll give you a mention (bots and spammers need not apply)…