Celebrity skin
While many of your humble Cravers have been tweeting away for a while, and the site has been massive among the geekerati since long before we caught the bug, there's no denying that Twitter has exploded this year. That's mainly down to an influx of celebrity tweeters and the mainstream attention they have garnered.
Renowned gadget lover Stephen Fry was, as always, an early adopter, as was MC Hammer. Second only to Barack Obama in follower numbers, Fry's popularity laid the groundwork for the likes of Chris Moyles and Phillip Schofield. As of today, the man who sang along to the Ulysses 31 theme tune with Gordon the Gopher has more followers than the man who invented the Internet -- which is as it should be.
For us, what really put Twitter into the big leagues of mainstream media was the arrival of Jonathan Ross. We'll be justifying that statement and looking more closely at the phenomenon of celebrity tweeting later in the week.
