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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 was donating $0.25 to charity for every FourSquare login during SXSW - I "raised" over $10 myself during the week, so this must have been a significant donation taken across all 14,000 attendees.

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	114,234
Richard Branson	109,932
Holly Willoughby	74,359
Andi Peters	53,019
Alan Davies	54,557
David Mitchell	56,740

Last month I confidently predicted that Richard Bacon would soon be top five – and naturally I was wrong.  He has almost doubled his follower count, but only makes it to number six.

The story instead is of the rise of musicians, with Lily Allen and Imogen Heap both easing into the top five – replacing Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross. 

With Coldplay now massively out at the front of the pack, it seems that Twitter could be replacing MySpace as the primary way for musicians to connect with their fans. 

Finally one big new entry to the chart – Eddie Izzard rocks in with 250k followers – an unfortunate omission (although he was born in the Yemen, so possibly doesn’t count!).  With Eddie’s arrival, Rob Brydon (46k) drops off the chart for the time being.

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 has been on Twitter almost exactly a year and has added 100k followers in the past month, so my bad.

Neil Gaiman soars into the top three – and were it not for Stephen Fry I think we would talk a lot more about the way he uses the web.  Russell Brand is also up into the top five, now ahead of Jonathan Ross.

Finally keep an eye on Richard Bacon – at current rates of growth, he will be easing into the top five in a week or so.

As ever, please point out any errors or omissions – either comment here or tweet me on twitter.com/miketeasdale.

Celeb	Followers	Joined
Coldplay	589,896	92 days ago
Stephen Fry	432,118	274 days ago
Neil Gaiman	253,172	103 days ago
Russell Brand	242,800	69 days ago
Jonathan Ross	216,805	136 days ago
Imogen Heap	192,782	360 days ago
Richard Bacon	181,507	89 days ago
Lily Allen	152,129	75 days ago
Phillip Schofield	145,086	93 days ago
John Cleese	144,102	1.2 years ago
Chris Moyles	134,970	72 days ago
Alan Carr	116,929	292 days ago
Fearne Cotton	93,657	74 days ago
Jimmy Carr	90,149	173 days ago
Richard Branson	85,277	246 days ago
Holly Willoughby	56,655	66 days ago
Andi Peters	48,853	72 days ago
Alan Davies	46,850	70 days ago
David Mitchell	46,637	92 days ago
Rob Brydon	39,088	88 days ago

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.

Celeb	Followers	Joined
Coldplay	425,408	74 days ago
Stephen Fry	370,110	256 days ago
Jonathan Ross	183,898	118 days ago
Russell Brand	162,989	51 days ago
Neil Gaiman	142,566	85 days ago
Phillip Schofield	126,877	75 days ago
John Cleese	126,297	1.2 years ago
Chris Moyles	115,223	54 days ago
Lily Allen	112,268	57 days ago
Alan Carr	94,473	274 days ago
Richard Bacon	80,833	71 days ago
Jimmy Carr	74,917	155 days ago
Richard Branson	71,634	228 days ago
Fearne Cotton	69,617	56 days ago
Andi Peters	43,608	54 days ago
Holly Willoughby	42,708	48 days ago
Alan Davies	41,026	52 days ago
David Mitchell	37,887	74 days ago
Rob Brydon	33,302	70 days ago
Charlie Brooker	30,466	64 days ago

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 to see Lily Allen now firmly in the top ten – she was of course an original poster child of Myspace, but I wonder if she is now putting more effort into Twitter.

Celeb	Followers	Joined
Stephen Fry	301,188	239 days ago
Coldplay	253,474	57 days ago
Jonathan Ross	145,009	101 days ago
Phillip Schofield	106,344	58 days ago
John Cleese	102,956	1.2 years ago
Russell Brand	101,522	34 days ago
Chris Moyles	91,989	37 days ago
Lily Allen	77,797	40 days ago
Alan Carr	73,312	257 days ago
Richard Branson	53,976	211 days
Jimmy Carr	53,302	138 days ago
Fearne Cotton	50,624	39 days ago
Neil Gaiman	46,063	68 days ago
Andi Peters	37,722	37 days ago
Alan Davies	32,907	35 days ago
Holly Willoughby	31,765	31 days ago
David Mitchell	27,357	57 days ago
Charlie Brooker	24,862	47 days ago
Rob Brydon	24,250	53 days ago
Richard Bacon	23,027	64 days ago

I liked this bit of twitter verse from @RichardMadeley – read from the bottom up to make sense of this…

Friday afternoon – hoorah!!

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 Izzard (18,640).

I guess that I could grow the list up to a top thirty, but I can’t really be bothered!  If I get a quiet weekend, I might try to automate this – how hard can it be??

At current rates of growth, I think that Coldplay will knock Stephen Fry off the top of the charts in a couple of weeks.

Celeb	Followers	Joined
Stephen Fry	267,399	232 days ago
Coldplay	190,255	50 days ago
Jonathan Ross	138,997	94 days ago
Phillip Schofield	95,673	51 days ago
John Cleese	92,427	1.2 years ago
Chris Moyles	82,200	29 days ago
Russell Brand	68,248	27 days ago
Alan Carr	61,206	250 days ago
Lily Allen	59,941	33 days ago
Richard Branson	45,312	204 days
Fearne Cotton	43,596	32 days ago
Jimmy Carr	43,233	129 days ago
Neil Gaiman	38,524	61 days ago
Andi Peters	34,890	29 days ago
Alan Davies	23,643	28 days ago
Holly Willoughby	26,529	24 days ago
Charlie Brooker	22,597	40 days ago
David Mitchell	22,498	50 days ago
Richard Bacon	20,815	57 days ago
Rob Brydon	20,519	46 days ago

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 their blog on the site – clearly we have a company of shameless self-publicists, which I guess is what you might hope for from an marketing agency.

The result is an incredibly diverse range of staff blogs – and here are six of the best, in strictly alphabetical order, with a quick synopsis of the current obsessions:

• Gemma Bardsley (Coffee and Pie) – lost and found objects, street art
• William Corke (Digital Gallimaufry) – coffee and hookahs
• Ellie Nugent (Moodshine Crafts & Design) – knitting and shoes
• Roz Pibworth (Roz Writes) – information architecture and snowmen
• John Randle (Randle Rambles) – typography, Lomo, little people
• Dhiren Shingadia (Digital Strategy by Numetrick) – social search, twitter, web navigation

Still no sign of Richard Madeley or Maggie Philbin in spite of their first-rate twittering. Ditto Andy Murray – perhaps those rude things he said about England are coming back to haunt him.

On the chart itself, the unthinkable has happened: Coldplay has knocked Jonathan Ross into third position.  If they can sustain this rate of growth, they could be bigger than Stephen Fry, which would probably require a rewriting of the laws of physics.

Celeb	Followers	Joined
Stephen Fry	235,188	225 days ago
Coldplay	130,415	43 days ago
Jonathan Ross	122,305	87 days ago
Phillip Schofield	86,061	44 days ago
John Cleese	80,207	1.2 years ago
Chris Moyles	70,888	22 days ago
Russell Brand	53,714	22 days ago
Alan Carr	48,635	243 days ago
Lily Allen	41,716	26 days ago
Fearne Cotton	36,472	25 days ago
Richard Branson	35,452	197 days
Jimmy Carr	34,715	122 days ago
Neil Gaiman	33,767	54 days ago
Andi Peters	31,404	22 days ago
Charlie Brooker	19,848	33 days ago
David Mitchell	18,188	43 days ago
Rob Brydon	17,599	39 days ago
Eddie Izzard	14,528	250 days ago
Dave Gorman	13,226	39 days ago
Danny Wallace	12,700	36 days ago

Here is this week’s update to the UK celebrity Twitter chart.  This week’s big mover, following their all-conquering time at the Grammys, is Coldplay, who are now up to third in the chart.

Another musical new entry is Lily Allen (partly because I have missed her from previous charts).

Powering away in front are Stephen Fry, now with over 200,000 followers, and Jonathan Ross – still a long way back on 110 thousand followers.

And in spite of a good week on the tennis court, Andy Murray has dropped out of the top twenty, taking away our sole sports person.

Celeb	Followers	Joined
Stephen Fry	210,343	218 days ago
Jonathan Ross	110,350	80 days ago
Coldplay	80,205	36 days ago
Phillip Schofield	77,048	37 days ago
John Cleese	71,652	1.2 years ago
Chris Moyles	67,788	15 days ago
Russell Brand	45,294	15 days ago
Alan Carr	40,274	236 days ago
Fearne Cotton	31,225	18 days ago
Jimmy Carr	30,225	115 days ago
Richard Branson	29,742	190 days
Lily Allen	29,135	19 days ago
Andi Peters	28,718	15 days ago
Neil Gaiman	28,358	47 days ago
Charlie Brooker	17,500	26 days ago
Rob Brydon	15,081	32 days ago
David Mitchell	14,788	37 days ago
Eddie Izzard	11,555	243 days ago
Dave Gorman	11,431	32 days ago
Danny Wallace	11,121	29 days ago