The latest bandwagon our illustrious British celebrities (especially the cooler ones) seem to be jumping on is that bastion of micro content – Twitter.
Stephen Fry is a regular Twitterer and has something like 30 thousand plus followers – mainly because he is actually a very good twitterer with interesting things to say.
Robert Llewellyn is also on Twitter (AKA Kryten) with something like 2000 followers and, killing time before getting back on the air in a couple of months, Jonathan Ross (under the username Wossy).
And now (although I’m still not convinced it is actually him – a post on the Top Gear Transmission blog would go a long way to proving it) none other than Jeremy Clarkson has found himself tweeting away.
In fact I WILL need to see a post on Top Gear.com to believe it really actually truly is him – until then I’ll read it as if being written by a Clarkson/Top Gear fan.
When I first checked this morning JC had around 250 followers – at the time of writing this blog post (12:45) he has nearly 550 and it seems to be increasing every time I refresh.
His first post was on 19 November as was the second but then nothing else until 29 December. There have been new posts every couple of days since then with five so far today alone.
If this really is Clarkson he may well be the first Brit to beat the American Technorati into the top five on Twitterholic – although Stephen Fry might just beat him to it.
What other British geeky celebs would you like to read on Twitter?
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I think you are thinking like sukrat, but I think you should cover the other side of the topic in the post too…