10 Twitterers I would Follow to the Ends of the Earth

There are some people I can live without on Twitter, that is to say, about 80% of them. It is a hard world to wade through and sometimes I imagine who I would save if the twitterverse began to die away.

So, I think about my values as a spectator. When I'm using Twitter I look for two things in a poster:

A) That they are offering me some kind of useful or valuable information about the world. OR

B) That they are entertaining the hell out of me.

Therefore, I've compiled a list of the top 10 Twitterers that I would follow to the ends of the earth...my desert island tweeters if you will.

10) Popurls Always great links on a range of topics...never uninteresting.

9) jdickerson -One of the best political analysts around with a great sense of humor as well. He works for Slate and his podcast is great too.

8) mojojuju - I'm not sure if he is 1 part nerd 2 parts funny or 2 parts nerd 1 part funny. Great tweets all around.

7) zeldman - Pure hilarity.

6) Oblique_Chirps - Sometimes these tweets make me more neurotic, sometimes they make me less neurotic.

5) the_gman - Always posts great articles, very informative guy.

4) stejules - Another great social media article aggregator.

3) Mashable - Probably the crown prince of social media. I love him with fealty.

2) hodgman - Obvious one...very funny. How could you live without the man who made people turn on PCs?

1) stephenfry - Always entertaining, he has to top the list. He is a loyal tweeter, he puts his all into his posts and he consistently grinds out both entertaining and informative goodies for all his fans.

I'd like to hear the lists of others.