15 Famous Australian Twitterers!
Hugh Jackman will see Oprah on Friday… PM Kevin Rudd says the Dawn Service was very moving… How come I know? My little birdie told me! No way! I am not their friend or on their staff. I know this because I have been following them on Twitter!
If you still haven’t quite got your head around Twitter? Sarah’s post, Twitter for Twits should help!
Now, the question I’d like to know is, “Who are the most popular Aussie Twitterers?”
Here is a list of 15 Famous Australians Twitterers that I’ve put together & ranked them in order of popularity. You can check out their Twitter pages to see what they’ve been up to.
RANK |
NAME |
TWITTER address |
FOLLOWERS (at 30 April ’09) |
1 |
Hugh Jackman |
158,731 |
|
2 |
Kevin Rudd |
36,793 |
|
3 |
Hamish & Andy |
24,523 |
|
4 |
Dave Hughes |
22078 |
|
5 |
Rove McManus |
13,387 |
|
6 |
Malcolm Turnbull |
9,204 |
|
7 |
Miranda Kerr |
7,478 |
|
8 |
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki |
5,448 |
|
9 |
Meshel Laurie |
5,038 |
|
10 |
Guy Sebastian |
4160 |
|
11 |
Adam Spencer |
2,936 |
|
12 |
Sarah Murdoch |
1,832 |
|
13 |
Natalie Imbruglia |
1,778 |
|
14 |
Anna Bligh |
454 |
|
15 |
Karl Stefanovic |
271 |
Twitter currently ranks as the third most used social network behind Facebook and MySpace. Source Compete.com. Reports also show that Twitter’s retention rate of 40% isn’t quite as high as Facebook or MySpace which average 70%. Source Twitter users rapidly fall off the perch April 30, 2009
REMEMBER: Always keep your tweets interesting… or face arrest by the Twitter Cops!
Related websites
Related articles
- Big end of town takes to Twitter – Australian IT, 7 Apr 2009
- Commonwealth Bank all a-Twitter over mortgage approval tweet – Herald Sun, 30 Mar 2009
- Famous Twits: 50 Celebrities on Twitter – LaurelPapworth.com, 5 Feb 2009
- Twitter popularity growing as easy way to stay in touch – Courier Mail, 21 Jan 2009
- Australian Journalists on Twitter – LaurelPapworth.com 28 Jan 2009
- Australia’s most interesting Twitter users – News.com.au 29 Jan 2009
- How Many Australian Twitter Users Are There? And What Clients Do They Use? Lucas Ng’s blog, 29 Apr 2009