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28 August 2:36:26 PM	Paris Hilton (www.parishilton.com) has made no reference to her Las Vegas drugs bust on her Twitter page (http://twitter.com/parishilton) despite keeping the world updated on her every move. More at the Calgary Herald.   Calgary Herald
28 August 10:35:28 AM	Julian Clary (www.julianclary.co.uk) has 13,000+ followers on Twitter (http://twitter.com/julianclary) - "I'm writing an article about the transition from youth to middle age for gay men." Check out the result in The Guardian.   The Guardian
26 August 11:44:22 AM	Mrs Stephen Fry (http://twitter.com/mrsstephenfry) - "Stephen's poor, downtrodden wife & mother of his five or six kids" - now has 63,000+ followers, including one Stephen Fry (http://twitter.com/STEPHENFRY). More on Edna in The Guardian.   The Guardian
20 August 12:08:45 PM	Lady Gaga (http://twitter.com/Ladygaga) and Britney Spears (http://twitter.com/BRITNEYSPEARS) are engaged in a Twitter battle to become "the most popular musician online" according to The Standard.   Evening Standard
18 August 4:26:43 PM	North Korea is now using both Twitter (http://twitter.com/uriminzok) and YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/uriminzokkiri) "as part of its propaganda campaigns against South Korea and the United States." More at AllGov.   AllGov
18 August 3:16:40 PM	CO11, the The Public Order Operational Command Unit of the Metropolian Police (www.met.police.uk), has its own Twitter page (http://twitter.com/co11metpolice) with 1,000+ followers and links to its YouTube channel.   CO11 - Twitter
7 August 12:46:52 PM	The chosen one - Stephen Holmes (http://twitter.com/ste_101) has gathered over 7,000 Twitter followers since being chosen by Kanye west. But is Holmes real or just the Midlands alter ego of Kanye west? More at The Guardian.   The Guardian
7 August 12:46:07 PM	Kanye West (www.kanyewest.com) has attracted almost 500,000 followers after just one week on Twitter but follows only 1 - "the chosen one."   Twitter - Kanye West
4 August 11:36:29 AM	Lindsay Lohan, out of jail after serving just 13 days of a 90-day sentence, is not yet twittering (http://twitter.com/lindsaylohan) to her 900,000+ followers. More on her jailbreak at Irish Times.   Irish Times
1 August 4:13:44 PM	Gatwick Airport (www.gatwickairport.com) is Twittering - "If you're at Gatwick we'd love to hear from you. Ask us a question or tell us what you think about your experience today." Twitter feeds appear on departures / arrivals boards in the terminals.   Twitter - Gatwick Airport
30 July 4:18:42 PM	RIP Ivy Bean, 104, believed to be the oldest person on Twitter (http://twitter.com/ivybean104). More on the lady and her celebrity followers at MailOnline.   MailOnline
22 July 3:25:42 PM	Comic / presenter Keith Chegwin (www.keithchegwin.com), who posts jokes on his Twitter page, has been accused of plagiarism - "Dear me - There are some real Bullies here on Twitter.." More in The Standard.  Evening Standard
20 July 4:08:33 PM	Lance Armstrong (www.livestrong.org) is twittering fom the Tour de France (www.letour.fr).   Twitter - Lance Armstrong
19 July 4:32:40 PM	TV nutrionist Gillian McKeith (www.gillianmckeith.info) is a good example of how not to use Twitter ( http://twitter.com/gillianmckeith) - more in The Telegraph.   Daily Telegraph
12 July 12:22:10 PM	Eye Spy MP (http://twitter.com/eyespymp) is the twitter site that MPs fear - it's too much like Big Brother for their liking so "Labour MP Eric Joyce is calling for it to be banned." More at Londoner's Diary.   Londoner's Diary
5 July 4:40:00 PM	Amanda de Cadenet (www.amandadecadenet.com) is launching a new website on July 15. 140women.com is dedicated to empowering women.   Amanda de Cadenet - Twitter
1 July 4:23:12 PM	The 2010 Tour de France starts in Rotterdam on July 3. Lance Armstrong (www.lancearmstrong.com) says on Twitter "And yes, this will be final Tour de France. It's been a great ride. Looking forward to 3 great weeks."   Lance Armstrong - Twitter
21 June 10:38:14 AM	Tennis - IBM Scouts are roaming the Wimbledon 2010 Championship (www.wimbledon.org) from June 21 until July 4 "tweeting on anything and everything for interest to people at the arena."   Twitter IBMScout
18 June 11:52:19 AM	Twitter (http://twitter.com) has launched its first "promoted" tweet. Pixar (www.pixar.com) paid for Toy Story 3 to be included as a “trending topic.” More in The Telegraph.   Daily Telgraph
7 June 2:55:24 PM	Jemima Khan is a rising star of Twitter (http://twitter.com/jemkhan ) having attracted almost 10,000 followers since her first tweet - "I have done it a total of 219 times since January." In The Sunday Times she advises 1 tweet per day, max.   TimesOnline
4 June 3:02:57 PM	Cumbria Police (http://twitter.com/cumbriapolice) used Twitter to publish warnings and updates to the public following "the shootings in Cumbria carried out by taxi driver Derrick Bird..." More in The Telegraph.   Daily Telegraph
25 May 11:04:00 AM	"The curse of Twitter" - no regrets from Derek Simpson (http://twitter.com/dereksimpsonjgs), joint general secretary of Unite (www.unitetheunion.com), criticised for tweeting during the negotiations with airline BA (www.ba.com). More in The Telegraph.   Daily Telegraph
24 May 3:23:26 PM	Uber-tweeter Stephen Fry will judge the Guardian Hay Festival's Twitter competition to find "the most beautiful tweet ever written." Entries should be submitted to @hayfestival (http://twitter.com/hayfestival) by June 6. More in The Guardian.   The Guardian
23 May 4:34:40 PM	Kill Willie - the MoS headline was "Twitter Riot Ruins BA Talks" after Socialist Workers shouting "Kill Willie Walsh" interrupted the talks between BA and the Unite union. Negotiator Derek Woodley "tweeted several messages from inside the Acas meeting."   Mail on Sunday
14 May 11:21:45 AM	Sarah Brown has changed her twitter handle from @SarahBrown10 to @SarahBrownUK now that she now longer resides at 10 Downing Street - "don't know where to start with the thanks for the many many messages here and also DMs, but am humbled, overwhelmed.."   Sarah Brown - Twitter
12 May 4:27:53 PM	Trainee accountant Paul Chambers (http://twitter.com/pauljchambers), delayed on his flight to a F2F with a woman he met on Twitter, tweeted "I'm blowing the airport sky high." Arrested, humiliated, fined £385, he also lost his job. More at TimesOnline.   TimesOnline
11 May 11:22:26 AM	Stephen Fry (www.stephenfry.com) is back twittering again after a brief self-imposed exile while he wrote a book in LA.   Stephen Fry - Twitter
30 April 11:54:41 AM	Lalit Modi, the former commissioner of the Indian Premier League (www.iplt20.com), is still busy on Twitter (http://twitter.com/lalitkmodi). More at The Guardian.   The Guardian
30 April 11:23:41 AM	Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, has opened a Twitter account (http://twitter.com/Chavezcandanga) and has posted two messages to his 100,000+ followers. More at The Guardian.   The Guardian
23 April 4:07:31 PM	Twitter (http://twitter.com/RAFDuxford1940) is being used to tell "the Battle of Britain story as it happened" to coincide with a new display of photographs (http://1940.iwm.org.uk) at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford. More at The Guardian.   The Guardian
18 April 12:47:12 PM	Designer Henry Holland is at the Coachella (www.coachella.com) festival in the California desert. He has informed his 48,000+ followers that his current look involves one sunburnt leg.   Henry Holland Twitter
17 April 4:38:44 PM	Real-time search moves to a new level with the introduction of a Google feature which lets you "zoom to any point in time and 'replay' what people were saying publicly about a topic on Twitter." More in The Independent.   The Independent
14 April 7:26:07 PM	Former England rugby star Will Carling (www.willcarling.com) has tweeted that he does not intend to appear on 'Strictly' - "The 'Strictly Come Dancing' not going to happen. A - do not have time. B - More importantly I prefer to...."   Twitter - Will Carling
14 April 7:07:06 PM	The spat between Dragons' Den stars James Caan and Duncan Bannatyne - 'non doms' + racism + criminal records - is getting a lot of traffic into the latter's Twitter page (http://twitter.com/duncanbannatyne). More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
8 April 4:16:52 PM	Jim Carrey (http://twitter.com/Jimcarrey) has split from Jenny Mccarthy - "Jenny and I have just ended our 5yr relationship. I'm grateful 4 the many blessings we've shared and I wish her the very best!" TMI? The question is posed by HollywoodCrush.   Hollywood Crush
8 April 4:15:42 PM	Jenny McCarthy has split from Jim Carrey, posting this on her Twitter page - "Im so grateful for the years Jim and I had together. I will stay committed to Jane and will always keep Jim as a leading man in my heart.   Jenny Mccarthy - Twitter
25 March 12:32:26 PM	Jemima Khan (nee Goldsmith) can be found on Twitter as JemKhan.   Twitter - Jemima Khan
20 March 12:02:02 PM	Customise your Twitter page with a background from COLOURlovers.   COLOURlovers
20 March 10:36:42 AM	A busy time for footballer Robbie Savage - he is now an ambassador for UK online retailer ACA Sports (www.acasports.co.uk) and has launched himself on Twitter as RobbieSavage8.   Twitter - Robbie Savage