Twitter UK celebrity chart – 2nd April

As I predicted a couple of weeks ago, Stephen Fry has at long last been overtaken at the top of the UK celebrity twitter chart by Coldplay.

We also have two new entries into the top five – Russell Brand eases into fourth place and Neil Gaiman has added almost 100,000 followers in a couple of weeks to get to fourth place.

Neil Gaiman is the only author in the top twenty, which is a bit of a surprise – good to see that his career has survived the dreadful job I made of editing his very first book!

Another big mover is Richard Bacon who has added 50,000 followers in the past two weeks – I set up a Twitter account a couple of days ago and he was one of the suggested people to follow, along with Al Gore, Perez Hilton and Miley Cyrus, so that might explain his sudden leap in popularity.