Top 25 Twitterers and Twitter services

We thought we'd be over it by now, but Twitter is still the web app of choice here in Shiny Towers. It's perfect for keeping up to date on the minutia of friend's lives, for finding out what's rocking the folks on the other side of the world, and apparently, freeing students from Egyptian jails.

You can set up your account here, but once you've done that, who should you follow? Well, apart from us, here's some suggestions as to who should make your friends list.

Famous folk (kinda)
Paris Hilton: OK, so it's not exactly Paris, but if you'd like to be kept updated on the ins and outs of life as an heiress, this is the place.
David Hasselhoff: He's been sadly quiet over the past couple of months, but we're praying 'Hasselhoff' makes a return.

Indiana Jones: life as Indiana seems to be quite trying - he's turned all grumpy since The Last Crusade.
Darth Vader: He went to SXSW, apparently. Funny no one spotted him...
William Shatner: Sporadic updates, but wouldn't you be sporadic if you were busy being a legend?

Informative twitterers
mbites: Mike Butcher writes for Tech Crunch UK, but often adds URLs of the stuff he's been working on or hearing about, making it almost like a manageable RSS feed.
Maratriangle: Getting hourly updates on poachers, lions and park rangers somewhere in Kenya is probably the best use of Twitter, like, ever.
TwitterLit: They'll post the first line of a novel every day - just the thing to get you inspired in the morning.
Celebrity Gossip: Informative in the loosest possible sense of the world, you understand. It does exactly what it says on the tin.
BBC Breaking: Most specialist BBC news areas have a feed, but if you want the headlines from one place, this is it.

Geeky follows
ZeFrank: He's previously of the ZeFrank shows, and now you can follow exactly what he's up to minute by minute. Heaven.
Joel Johnson: Him of Boing Boing, spent last week trying to make it through some kind of wilderness with all his gadgets. Why? I have no idea, but I did enjoy the Twitter updates.
Kevin Rose:Duh. Because I love him.
Ariel Waldman: She occasionaly writes for Engadget, she's in charge of lots of technicalness over at Pownce, and she's got insomnia. What's not to love?

Hilarious updaters
Confession: You can enter the site here, add your anonymous confession, and have it appear on the twitter.com/confession feed. How Catholic 2.0.
Love: Get hourly updates on the latest Twitter proposals, whether you're more likely to marry as a brunette or blonde, and more.
Offbeat news: News, but not as we know it. Posted earlier: "Nepal goddess retires at age 11 and marries a piece of fruit".
Panto: She's live twittering the best reality tv when it happens, as it happens. Which programme is she referring to? Who cares!
Funny Screen Name: I've only just found this guy, and he's only got nine followers. But, his updates include "Certainly not ironing my speedo collection. No. Certainly not." and " On the run, having shoplifted at Babies 'R' Us. Again" I think we should make him a Twitter celebrity. And *really* freak him out. Quick - add, add, add.

Twitter services
TwitterWhere: allows you to input a location and a radius and see all the Twitters being posted from that area.
Twitter updaters: Whether you're iPhone-ilicious, Crackberry'd up or an Opera-lovely, this page will point you in the direction of getting your updates to and from your phone.
Tw3t: Allows you to send and receive photos to the Tw3t site. Like Twitter, but for your webcam...
Inner Twitter: One of the more bizarre sites; the idea being that when you receive a tweet from them (invariably 'chime') you take a moment to stop, breath and think beautiful thoughts. Whatever works, dude.
Twitter Weather: You'll get twice daily updates as to the weather in the city you choose to follow, should looking out the window not be an option.