# Who are your favorite people you follow on Twitter? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 1, 2013, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-people-you-follow-on-twitter/659826 "2013-06-01T00:52:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-people-you-follow-on-twitter/659826/1 "2013-06-01T00:52:41Z")
Jenny Johnson is my favorite, but Adrianne Curry is catching up. Who amuses you? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-people-you-follow-on-twitter/659826/2 "2013-06-01T01:08:15Z")
Author, Jonathan Carroll ‏@JSCarroll English writer/TV guy, Charlie Brooker ‏@charltonbrooker English cricketer Graeme Swann ‏@Swannyg66 are all interesting. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-people-you-follow-on-twitter/659826/3 "2013-06-01T01:18:32Z")
@pattonoswalt @wilw @josswhedon @feliciaday Why yes, I **am** a nerd. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-people-you-follow-on-twitter/659826/4 "2013-06-01T02:01:57Z")
It was Roger Ebert. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-people-you-follow-on-twitter/659826/5 "2013-06-01T04:01:42Z")
I follow a few obscure people. My favourites are: Tim **@Omundson** , from _Psych_ Everyone likes **@WilW** \*, **@FeliciaDay** , and **@DontTryThis** Adam Savage **@VanessaRagland** from my favourite podcast _Pop My Culture_ **@AlisonHaislip** , geek of some standing **@RichardOsman** , a UK game show co-host and Endemol producer **@StephenMangan** , UK character actor, very funny in his own right **@Qikipedia** The official _QI_/John Lloyd feed, full of interesting facts and silly observations **@DamonLindelof** , unfairly maligned screenwriter **@HughBon** , Hugh Bonneville, actor from multiple things but most famously _Downton Abbey_ And a couple of local comedians: **@MrTonyMartin** , cult radio personality **@Calbo** , Cal Wilson, stand up and ex-pat Kiwi like me And a whole bunch more that post less frequently, but can be sporadically funny. \*_Except during Ice Hockey season_ ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-people-you-follow-on-twitter/659826/6 "2013-06-01T04:34:05Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > It was Roger Ebert. ☹ Mine, too. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-people-you-follow-on-twitter/659826/7 "2013-06-01T05:34:41Z")
Model Chrissy Teigen is usually hilarious. For serious news, Rachel Maddow. ---
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-people-you-follow-on-twitter/659826/8 "2013-06-02T01:46:26Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > It was Roger Ebert. ☹ ☹ Yup, here too. Chaz still posts items at times. Some others I follow include Penn and Teller, Bill Nye, Ben Goldacre, Matt Berry ---
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-people-you-follow-on-twitter/659826/9 "2013-06-02T02:00:39Z")
Dammit… forgot Neil deGrasse-Tyson and PZ Myers too. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-people-you-follow-on-twitter/659826/10 "2013-06-02T07:25:35Z")
Ricky Gervais is quite amusing throughout the day as he spends it poking theists with sticks. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-people-you-follow-on-twitter/659826/11 "2013-06-02T07:39:35Z")
@JaneEspenson Currently writing Once Upon A Time worked on Buffy and other shows @CarltonCuse Bate Motel writer also wrote Lost