Stephen Fry (if it be he) has become an instant success using micro-blogging platfrom, Twitter. Life would be enriched if more of Britain’s treasured characters were sharing their daily thoughts with social networkers. So I’m compiling a list of the 50 well known people who should tweet. Good, bad, charming, rude, the rogues and the pious, you name them and I’ll write to them over Christmas to urge them to join Twitter.
My first pitch to start the ball rolling: Robert Winston
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Great idea. Thanks for doing this. Can I put Neil Tennant’s name forward? He always seems to be up to something exciting, if not pioneering, in the music/arts field, with one eye on political issues. And he seems to have a lovely chilled, quietly observant disposition.
Great idea Tom. My suggestions:
Shami Chakrabarti
Tony Benn
Boris Johnson. Give him enough rope….
Although the success of @stephenfry is not simply down to his presence on twitter, it’s because he groks
…how to use it. unlike me – I seem unable to wait until I’ve finished filling in a form before I press submit.
Danny Baker
@billybragg. More often.
My top three:
Prince Charles; Kelly Holmes; and John Humphries.
My son suggested the Chuckle Brothers, who I think could do a training vid for inter Government department communication.
This is like a social web version of the classic ‘who would you invite to a dinner party?’ interview question, isn’t it?
TIm Berners-Lee
Richard Holloway
Richard Dawkins
Jonathan Coe
Lord Norton
Robert Peston
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Jack Dee
Prince Philip
Max Clifford
Jose Mourinho
Jeremy Clarkson
Steve Jobs
Sacha Baron Cohen
Wily Coyote
How about the Clerk to the Commons – I think that’s the job description for the people who sit in front of the speaker.
Seb Coe and Paul Deighton (CEO of London Organising Committee). You can tell them they only need to do it for 3 and a half years.
The Good;
Terry Wogan, Shami Chakrabarti, The Queen and Stephen Hawking.
The Bad;
Clarkson, Amy Winehouse, Gordon Ramsay and Kilroy.
The Ugly;
Anne Widdicombe
Wannabe tweeters:
Barack Obama – has stopped tweeting since he won the election; we miss him!
Vladimir Putin
Boris Johnson
John Updike
Philip Roth
Russell Hoban
David Attenborough
Stephen Hawking
CERN – what happened there?
Gary Larson
Ross Noble
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Mark Kermode
John Scarlett
Sarah Brown (of prime ministerial wife fame)
Jeremy Clarkson
Rachel Stevens
Andrew Marr
Richard Dawkins
Jim Davidson. I’d like to see how poison is brewed, the better to understand how to counter it.
Lance Armstrong!
Harry Hill
I’ll second the Mark Kermode vote.
Mark Kermode for sure
Alex James on cheese
Cancer Research for stats and developments.
Boris J certainly, just been watching his “After Rome” documentary
Shami Chakrabarti
Tony Benn
re: CERN, they’ve got to change a fuse, but it takes six months or something for the magnets to cool down (or is it warm up?)
Batch 1: featuring some of your current and former colleagues and related folk:
Mervyn King (Governor of the Bank Of England)
Alistair Darling (MP & Chancellor)
George Osborne (MP, shadow Chancellor)
Keith Hill (MP Streatham)
Hate Hoey (MP Vauxhall)
Michael Portillo
Diane Abbott (MP Hackney North and Stoke Newington)
Ken Clarke (QC / MP)
Michael Howard (QC / MP)
Professor Brian Cox
Simon Hoggart
Mark Thomas
Michael Palin
Alexis Cleveland
Met Office
oh yes, one more…..
Conrad Black
Okay here’s batch 2
I take it they need to be based (at least part of the time) in the UK, or my list would be quite different…
Adam Curtis (writer / broadcaster)
Susan Greenfield (scientist / House of Lords)
Jake and Dinos Chapman (artists)
Janet Street Porter (broadcaster / author)
Irvine Welsh (writer)
Camilla Wright (publisher – Popbitch)
Grant Morrison writer / artist)
Scott Capurro (comedian)
Joe Cornish (comedian)
Morrissey
Bill Drummond
Charlie Brooker
Ian Hislop
As if by magic, @tonybenn is now tweeting! Anything to do with this … ?
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I think almost anyone in politics so that we can hear what they are thinking in between the soundbites and official-prepared speeches
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