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South By Heat Map

March 20, 2010

Here’s a heat map of my week at SXSW based on Four Square data mapped to Where Do You Go.  The outliers on the map are mostly trips out to culturally significant TexMex restaurants like Guero’s and Chuy’s… some are a little mystifying (did I really make it up as far as 20th Street???) eBay [...]

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Twitter UK celebrity chart – 17th July

July 17, 2009

A month since my last look at the murky world of celebrities on Twitter – so what’s new? Well as usual I have noticed someone I’ve miss someone completely off the list – in this case Jamie Oliver, who has swept up an impressive 150,000 followers. Elsewhere, Lily Allen is now very close to the [...]

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Twitter UK celebrity chart – 11th June

June 11, 2009

Here’s the latest update in our literally all-star celebrity Twitter chart.  Have Coldplay topped the magic one million followers?  You know it! Celeb Followers Coldplay 1,003,695 Lily Allen 556,754 Stephen Fry 552,133 Neil Gaiman 521,822 Imogen Heap 461,337 Richard Bacon  427,365 Russell Brand 377,358 Eddie Izzard 364,028 Jonathan Ross 306,404 John Cleese 186,825 Chris Moyles [...]

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Twitter UK celebrity chart – 22nd May

May 22, 2009

A month since our last celeb chart, so what’s new? Celeb Followers Coldplay 848,910 Stephen Fry 510,333 Neil Gaiman 425,767 Lily Allen 385,495 Imogen Heap 363,913 Richard Bacon  336,431 Russell Brand 331,545 Jonathan Ross 270,432 Eddie Izzard 251,613 John Cleese 172,803 Phillip Schofield 166,120 Chris Moyles 159,523 Alan Carr 154,538 Fearne Cotton 119,004 Jimmy Carr [...]

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Twitter UK celebrity chart – 20th April

April 20, 2009

Ashton Kutcher became the first person to top one million Twitter followers on Friday (and three days later is up to 1.23 million!), so it must be time for a quick look at our UK celebrity chart. So what’s new.  Well Imogen Heap is new, although only because I forgot to include her – she [...]

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Twitter UK celebrity chart – 2nd April

April 2, 2009

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 [...]

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Twitter UK celebrity chart – 14th March

March 14, 2009

Bit late this week – my bad, got caught up in travelling to SXSW.  My plan is to automate this chart and leave it to run itself, watch this space Stephen Fry powering away beyond the 300k mark, but I still think that Coldplay will overtake him in a couple of weeks.  It’s also interesting [...]

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Sing-a-long with Richard Madeley

March 6, 2009

I liked this bit of twitter verse from @RichardMadeley – read from the bottom up to make sense of this… Friday afternoon – hoorah!! Share: Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend

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Twitter celebrity chart – 6th March 2009

March 6, 2009

Not much movement on the celebrity top twenty this week, so here’s a quick list of people who are bubbling under. In reverse order we have Richard Madeley (3,655), Iain Lee (5,548), Andy Murray (10,930), Graham Linehan (10,981), Jane Goldman (11,518), Phil Jupitus (12,049), Danny Wallace (14,873), Dave Gorman (15,422), Ewan McGregor (17,386) and Eddie [...]

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Six of the best Harvest staff blogs

February 26, 2009

We pondered a few approaches to staff blogs on the Harvest website, and in the end decided to suck an RSS feed of blog content from individual blogs and aggregate them on our site. Of course anyone could opt out of this process if they wanted to.  In reality people have pestered us to include [...]

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