[19 Feb: Go here for an updated celebrity twitter chart]
OK, I missed a few people out of my initial list – Chris Moyles apparently spent most of his breakfast show on Radio 1 talking with Andi Peters about how he has signed up to Twitter. So some shock new entries there.
I’ve extended the list to a top fifteen, so that I can squeeze Andy Murray into it as a token sportsman (and Fearne Cotton as the only female celeb to make the list). Dave Gorman is a useful base point – below his 5,000 followers I suspect we are well into the C-list.
By the way, whilst Chris Moyles has done a fantastic job in getting 12,300 followers over the course of the day, Stephen Fry has added a good five or six thousand followers today simply by being stuck in a lift.
| Celeb | Followers | Joined |
| Stephen Fry | 117,025 | 204 days ago |
| Jonathan Ross | 53,188 | 66 days ago |
| John Cleese | 47,910 | 1.2 years ago |
| Philip Schofield | 26,760 | 23 days ago |
| Neil Gaiman | 19,557 | 33 days ago |
| Russell Brand | 19,256 | 8 days ago |
| Alan Carr | 15,453 | 222 days ago |
| Chris Moyles | 12,385 | 1 day ago |
| Jimmy Carr | 11,315 | 99 days ago |
| Andi Peters | 8,988 | 1 day ago |
| Charlie Brooker | 7,360 | 12 days ago |
| Rob Brydon | 6,073 | 18 days ago |
| Fearne Cotton | 5,771 | 4 days ago |
| Andy Murray | 5,478 | 306 days ago |
| Dave Gorman | 5,003 | 18 days ago |
PS. If you really care about this stuff, the Guardian has a much more comprehensive list of celebrity twitterers.
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