Twit-fluence

All the chatter may be about the big names tweeting their thoughts in 140 characters on Twitter (Stephen Fry, Philip Schofield, Chris Moyles), but what about the big Welsh tweeters?

Yesterday I set about finding which influential Welsh people are tweeting regularly on the micro-blog site, by asking my followers to throw me some suggestions.

Naturally, I use the term "influential" fairly loosely. Please add your suggestions in the comments for any tweeters I've missed - and any Welsh names you'd love to see signed up.

Politics
Bethan Jenkins : the Plaid Cymru assembly member and regular tweeter
Leighton Andrews : the Rhondda's Labour AM chronicles his day
Kirsty Williams : the Welsh Lib Dem leader
Jocelyn Davies : another Plaid Cymru AM joins twitter
Jonathan Morgan : Conservative AM for Cardiff North, who's already got himself in trouble
Huw Lewis : Assembly Member for Merthyr
Jeff Cuthbert : Another Labour AM embraces Twitter
Peter Black : the Lib Dem technophile finally embraces Tweets
Lembit Opik : the first Welsh MP to sign up. He's not said much so far
Adam Price : regular blog updates and tweets from one of Plaid's MPs
Kevin Brennan : Cardiff West's Labour MP
Gwenllian Lansdown : Plaid Cymru's chief executive and councillor for Riverside in Cardiff
Menna Machraeth : Chair of Cymdeithas yr Iaith and airing her views on the Welsh language LCO
Alex Williams : Conservative town councillor in Pencoed
Richard Hazlewood : Conservative communications chief
Rene Kinzett : Conservative councillor in Swansea with parliamentary ambitions
Luke Ellis : Labour councillor and Carwyn Jones's press officer

Bloggers
WelshBloggers : the Twitter feed for the new Welsh Bloggers site
Simon Dyda : the blogger behind Ordovicius and formerly known as Sanddef
Ordovicius : Simon's dedicated micro-blog
Politics Cymru : I'd get it in the neck if they weren't on the list
Aneurin Glyndwr : the blog RSS delivered to your Twitter feed

News
Matt Withers : of MediaWales/SpinDoctor fame
Sion Barry : also familiar from MediaWales outlets, notably the Western Mail
Rhodri Marsden : columnist and blogger for The Independent, amongst other organs
Rhodri ap Dyfrig : Welsh media commentator and a founder of Metastwnsh, a sort-of Welsh-language Mashable
Ifan Morgan Jones : from Golwg's Welsh-language news website
Lauren Turner : Press Association journalist
Vicky Etchells : Red Dragon FM news editor
Debbie James : Online journalist for north Wales newspaper titles
Nick Speed : ITV Wales political correspondent
Real Radio Wales News : updates from the news team at Real Radio
Emma Gilliam : journalism lecturer, Cardiff University and former news editor BBC Radio Sheffield
Rory Cellan-Jones : the Welshman who's the technology correspondent for the BBC

Media, PR and Business
Sion Owen : PR consultant for Good Relations
Marcus Warner : after achieving infamy, Marcus now represents some of the brightest new musical talent
Gwyn Williams : CEO of independent production company Barcud Derwen
Rebecca Jones : business coach, speaker and entrepreneur
Wil Stephens : founder and CEO of Cube
Cathryn Scott : freelance journalist
Institute of Welsh Affairs : keep up to date with the IWA
Daran Hill : Positif Politics chief and bon viveur. Indeed.
Heather Martin : Good Relations PR guru
Phil Bowen : the Welshman responsible for o35s.net

Entertainment
Rob Brydon : actor, comedian, voice-over extraordinaire
Adam Walton : BBC Radio Wales presenter
Huw Stephens : BBC Radio 1 and Radio Cymru presenter
Bethan Elfyn : BBC Radio 1
Jen Long : BBC Radio 1 in Wales geek
Matt Lissack : Red Dragon evening presenter
Darren Lee : Red Dragon daytime presenter
Catrin Dafydd : the author micro-blogs her day in Welsh
Jamie and Louise : the regularly updated Twitter feed for the BBC Radio Wales mid-morning show

Now, who have I missed?

Last updated May 12, 2009