h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Feck! I have a follower!

What's your feck'n username?

I shall maybe make another one for hootoo, once I get the hang of this one.

I don't usually 'show off' but I have just looked at the new followers since last night and discovered that Sue Perkins follows the HitchHikers @h2g2_Guide. I'd followed her the day before and she followed back. As she has 159,404 people following her and she only follows 105 I thought I should share this with you - cos you're the ones who write the Guide! Yay!

Ed, not all of the followers on Twitter are real people. There are lots of robot accounts who follow people - I haven't figured out why. I registered with twitter but never posted anything. Gradually over the course of a year I accumulated quite a few of these robots followers.

Presumably at some point they're going to figure out a way to blitz me with advertising.

Who is Sue Perkins?

Sue Perkins is a Gap in the Guide. She is quite famous in the UK.

I had to resort to Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Perkins

She appears on radio panel shoes and watches people baking cakes.

Where can I buy these radio panel shoes? The FM radio on my phone isn't particularly efficient, and I'm hoping the extra surface area will improve signal quality.

I'm a size 15, if that matters?

she has deserted us! oh well, it was nice while it lasted

that was obviously

As to finding the real Brian Cox, he's @ProfBrianCox. For people who are famous and making sure they're not a fake account, look for the blue dot with a check mark in it. That means the person has had their account verified. However, some 'fake' accounts are some of the most entertaining ones to follow.
@MrsStevenFry
@Lord_Voldemort7
@Queen_UK




I'm @BaronGrim btw.

Oh, be sure to add @nighthoover to the list. It's an abandoned account... of course.

Never, ever, EVER tell me to follow Mrs Steven Fry.

How that bad joke has spawned a ing book deal, I'll never know. It's ridiculous.

That's @MrsStephenFry, with a /ph/, not a /v/.

TRiG.

Thanks, Trig.

So, tell us how you really feel, Mr.603.

I can't. There's a filter.

But does it not strike you as absolutely ridiculous that human society supports someone who has decided that THIS is a career?

1) Notice that Stephen Fry never shuts up on Twitter
2) Set up an account pretending to be his wife
3) Profit

Is that not embarassing? Does that not set your teeth on edge? Do you not want to slap that person so hard that they realise they're making the entire planet stupider by simply existing?

AARGH!

Nope... Doesn't bother me.

I'm not buying her books, but I find some of the tweets entertaining. That's all.

Anyway, Stephen Fry's official twitter feed got a bit boring after he was accused of being misogynistic. I stopped following.

Real pepople I follow (not counting h2g2ers, the editors, ThePost etc)

Stuart Maconie (gives good tweet especially with pics when he's climbing mountains, and had a similar ash-cloud delay to me a few years back)

Brian Cox (of course!)

Mark Pollock - inspirational speaker and blind adventurer

4 poofs and a piano ( funny themsleves, and often link to interesting stuff to retweet)

Terry Wogan
Twist and Pulse
Jedward
Chris Evans
Edward Upcott (Spellbound acrobat)
Andrew Luke (local comic book artist and social media guru)
Colin Bateman (local author)
Matt Cardle
Douglas H Wheelock (astronaut)
Robert Peston (very cheeky on Twitter!)

Simon Pegg
Dara O'Briain
Wendy Austin (lunchtime radio show)
Alan Simpson (afternoon radio show)
Barry McElduff MLA
Bill Bailey
Sue Perkins
Kiena Goss (musician I went to Uni with)
Richard Osman
Miranda Hart


Pretend people I follow:

Hilary Devey (good when watching Dragons Den)
The Dark Lord (Voldemort, of course)
Aleksandr Orlov
Sammy Wilson (not really the MLA)
Professor Unwin (well, the real one's dead, innee?)
Queen_UK (surprisingly accurate thoughts of the monarch)

can't find the 4 poofs