Still compiling a list of Canadians who have attracted the greatest number of followers on Twitter. I'm going on faith here that someone is telling the truth if they enter a Canadian address in their Twitter profile but I'm not including those who use only a pseudonym. With that, here's the Top 20 at August 13, 2009
- Jason Sweeney – 689,940
- Matthew Perry – 120,236
- Justin Bieber – 107,749
- William Shatner – 106,246
- Nathan Fillion – 101,913
- John Chow – 57,417
- Walter Apai – 55,989
- Pamela Anderson – 54,459
- Sharon Hayes – 39,779
- Scott Stratten – 36,596
- Marc Mawhinney – 34,632
- Amber MacArthur – 33,114
- Tara Hunt – 27,988
- Cory Doctorow – 26,749
- Lucy Izon – 25,574
- Anita Fiander – 25,109
- Daniel Negreanu – 24,345
- George Stroumboulopoulos – 21,768
- Alanis Morissette – 20,578
- Jessi Cruickshank – 19,744
Please send me info if you've got a Canadian flavoured Twitter account that break into this list.
V 2.1 current at Aug 14, 1400 EDT
You missed some celebrities….
Alanis Morissette has 20,555 (http://twitter.com/Morissette)
Simple Plan has 28,135 (http://twitter.com/SimplePlan)
Matthew Perry has 120,104 (http://twitter.com/LangfordPerry)
Thanks — incorporated into V 2.1
You should know by now I can’t resist adding my two cents’ worth to your blog, so here is my … ahem … contribution.
It has to do with two of your interests: Twitter and music.
I don’t know if you like opera. If you don’t, then we’re even, because Twitter is not among my favourite things either.
Some people have taken to written opera plots using Tweets. Explanations here:
http://theomniscientmussel.com/2009/04/celebrity-judge-recruited-for-upcoming-operaplot-contest/
I don’t remember where I came across this info, so I can’t give a H/T to anyone. Maybe it was talked about on the program that follows the Sat. afternoon broadcast from the Met on CBC?