Twitter username: @adventurebaby

Why do you deserve an award?: @adventurebaby is the perfect blend of valuable insight, interactive connectivity and personal drivel #goldentwits

What were the objectives?: To immerse myself in a voyage of social media discovery as part of IAS b2b’s Total Immersion 2009 strategy to become a digital agency

What have you achieved?: 0 to 220+ followers (no bots) on Twitter. Developed social media strategy for ABB Instrumentation, won IAS’ quarterly SM progression award

Twitter username: @morganritchie

Why do you deserve an award?: I am the first and only twitterer to illustrate tweets. I drew the tweets of Stephen Fry non stop for 100 Days. I now draw everyone else

What were the objectives?: To choose one tweet from Stephen Fry everyday for 100 Days, to illustrate it and hopefully make people laugh!

What have you achieved?: I successfully illustrated all 100 days without fail. The project is now featured on www.stephenfry.com’s homepage. I gained 1250 followers.

Twitter username: @nsdesign

Why do you deserve an award?: Because we not only Tweet the Tweet, we also Twaddle the Twaddle. We use Twitter for business engagement, and promote others to do the same

What were the objectives?: To engage with our clients in the online spaces they already frequent. To raise company profile, and to support our support and sales.

What have you achieved?: over 400 followers (and growing) in a relatively short space of time. An open dialogue btween us and client base – and increased trust.

Your company: Trinity Mirror

Twitter username: @dave_thomson84

Why do you deserve an award?: As a 25 year old Glaswegian working in digital media in London I see things differently, and I’m exceptionally Grumpy most of the time

What were the objectives?: To not just RT news headlines like most Muppet’s, but to provide an opinion on them and share my daily observations as a Scot in London

What have you achieved?: I have amused and annoyed the Technorati, my colleagues and friends who follow me, and I don’t intend to stop anytime soon.

Twitter username: @henrykisssinger

Suggest a category: satire

Why do you deserve an award?: Why not? If Barry can get the Nobel Peace Prize just for not being the Boy Bush, shurely this is in order for your Uncle Henry?

What were the objectives?: To wake people up as to what’s really going on in the world. ie. shine a light on serious issues, but in a way that doesn’t alienate people.

What have you achieved?: A tweet from Christopher Hitchens…who I then mocked for not being as good as his brother, Peter. (Well, it made my day).

Twitter username: @craiglparker

Suggest a category: Geek Tweets!

Why do you deserve an award?: I tweet on a huge range of subjects from tech culture, enjoying retweeting good articles and almost always reply to @’s and RT’s

What were the objectives?: I don’t feel tweeting needs objectives other than the inherent social interaction factor! If anything I suppose my objective was to learn.

What have you achieved?: I have learnt new things from my industry, made new friends from both in and outside my work and managed to get some people to sing up too!

Your company: PA Photocall

Twitter username: @PAPhotocall

Suggest a category: Media

Why do you deserve an award?: No 1 tweet is ever the same, our Pictures stem from the wierd and wonderful to the press exclusives plus Prizes for our dedicated followers

What were the objectives?: To be able to share our work with everyone on the twitter network, reward dedicated fans and create fun conversation… To make people smile

What have you achieved?: We have gained a very strong network of followers, our work is is now recognised even when not credited & we have generated more work!!!

Twitter username: @gsightseeing

Why do you deserve an award?: For dedication in bringing the funniest Google Streetview sights to the people of Britain! #deserving #modest

What were the objectives?: Drive more traffic to http://gss.st/, get new readers, have fun!

What have you achieved?: More traffic, new readers, much hilarity, and yet another “blog” to keep updated. #jobdone #backfiring

Twitter username: @jonthebeef

Suggest a category: Tech

Why do you deserve an award?: i’m not sure that I do deserve an award, however I receive lots of new followers all the time, and I think my tweets are relevant.

What were the objectives?: To get my point across to people that are interested.

What have you achieved?: Exactly that.

Twitter username: @petchums

Why do you deserve an award?: Petchums is about sharing our love of pets and making people smile every day!

What were the objectives?: To give our followers that warm fuzzy feeling everyday

What have you achieved?: Putting smiles back on people’s faces, mission accomplished…

Twitter username: @onebestway

Why do you deserve an award?: Tweets are irreverent, irrelevant, indulgent, surprising & (occasionally) useful. Not trying too hard, from eye-rollingly naff to observant.

What were the objectives?: Make people smile, build the business’s personality, be clever, work as a series that people will follow. Appear professional but relaxed.

What have you achieved?: People see onebestway as fun and adventurous, self efacing but capable. Always on duty, obsessively, quirky and blurty. We ‘get’ what we are

Twitter username: @litmanlive

Why do you deserve an award?: I’m trying to address the balance after I was awarded the ‘Twitter Twat of the Year’ recently at the Jackenhacks awards http://j.mp/18RvYmm

What were the objectives?: Humiliation / praise within the PR industry for allegedly having verbal diarrhea and inane tweets

What have you achieved?: Everyone came up to me and congratulated me after the award for being a tw*t.

Twitter username: @visitshow

Suggest a category: Exhibition

Why do you deserve an award?: Thought provoking use of Twitter to ensure possible exhibitors picked up on who has already decided to exhibit at ‘Visit 2010′

What were the objectives?: To generate interest from exhibitors

What have you achieved?: More exhibitors booked, more interest raised with prospects

Twitter username: @brand_nu

Suggest a category: freelance creative thinking, doing and making

Why do you deserve an award?: Because the world of twitter is a better place with my awful jokes, better links and showcasing of my work.

What were the objectives?: to cheer up, to anger, to upset, to make up, to win and lose, to admire and envy, to colour the black&white world

What have you achieved?: Cheers, anger, upsets, victories and losses, admiration = all in brigthly coloured world of Brand Nu

Twitter username: @darrenbristow

Why do you deserve an award?: Not sure that I do deserve an award really. Hopefully I’ve made my wife’s life (and other womens) a little better by taking responsibility.

What were the objectives?: Raise awareness of a sensitive issue that most blokes through fear and ignorance choose to avoid.

What have you achieved?: I twittered live from the operating table during a vasectomy procedure. Men I know are now talking openly about the procedure, without tears

Twitter username: @edwhitfield

Why do you deserve an award?: Twitterfield Gormley with a pioneering Twitstallation, gave exemplary TV comment-tweets and all round wrongheaded goodness. Worth a gong.

What were the objectives?: To RT the contents of my mind, which has always been calibrated to 140 character spasms. Technology has caught up at last. Thanks Twitter!

What have you achieved?: Nothing less than a twitterloution. For 140 individuals, companies and sex-bots, I’m now part of the netgeist….whatever that is.

Twitter username: @iwantaquote

Why do you deserve an award?: We are new and trying make a real difference to consumers and businesses in what is a very tough time. Plus our tweets make people smile.

What were the objectives?: To get our brand to a wider audience and to keep us front of mind. We don’t want to bombard people with spam so we try and make them smile.

What have you achieved?: We have only recently started but already have 300 followers and web visits are up. People have started saying they really enjoy our tweets

Twitter username: @duncanbannatyne

Why do you deserve an award?: I am the best (and most modest) of all the Dragons

What were the objectives?: To reach an audience

What have you achieved?: The audience was reached

Suggest a category: Fun

Why do you deserve an award?: We give away prizes

What were the objectives?: To engage with our audience

What have you achieved?: We engaged with our audience

Twitter username: @radiogagger

Why do you deserve an award?: i write and tweet comedy. One recent gag recommended as ‘tweet of the week’.

What were the objectives?: I joined twitter to give my writing more exposure and will soon promote my comedy website when it is ready to launch.

What have you achieved?: I’ve gained 1,000+ followers, been added to ‘funny lists’ offered writing work and as mentioned above been nominated for ‘tweet of the week’

Twitter username: @HandsOnGlasgow

Why do you deserve an award?: “Axes, scotch mist & half a dozen sheep skulls?” No problem! We do love our customer’s requests. It’s just another day at Hands On.

What were the objectives?: Keep it real, current, and alive. Breath in, breath out.

What have you achieved?: A smile and a bird in the hand.

Twitter username: @creativeprotege

Why do you deserve an award?: Through the use of social media we champion graduate talent, provide support and guarantee work experience to those who register with us.

What were the objectives?: To provide links and vital information to help aspiring designers secure work by improving their current portfolios and cvs.

What have you achieved?: Many people have commented on how useful our tweets/links are. As a result the number of graduates registering with has increased.

Your company: n/a

Twitter username: @tempestdevyne

Suggest a category: Best burlesque performer who like dressing up as a dalek living in Shropshire with the initials TD

Why do you deserve an award?: I probably don’t, someone worthy should win, I just like entering things & the challenge of fitting comments into 140 chars without runni…

What were the objectives?: In tweeting as in life I like to make people smile, to keep in contact with fellow performers &friends & to sometimes help make a difference

What have you achieved?: It kept me off the streets. I have discovered who I really am and shown that to the world, and it’s made me & others happy. Nothing big.

Twitter username: @m_eye

Why do you deserve an award?: I try to share great content with like minded people, whether that is insightful articles or something to laugh at and pass 5 minutes.

What were the objectives?: Initially I started using Twitter with the aim of driving traffic to my blog. Instead I become a microblogger rather than a blogger.

What have you achieved?: A feed of interesting discussion from like minded Planners, strategists and web lovers that helped me get a job in advertising at MZ.

Twitter username: @raulthemule

Why do you deserve an award?: It’s the first time a South American Mule has tweeted for 1334 hours straight.

What were the objectives?: Attempt a world 1st in which twitter was just 1 of 8 social networking sites used 24/7 to promote the benefits of a new energy drink.

What have you achieved?: Record drink sales in two states, an internet world first and fans in over 40 countries including (Afghanistan).

Twitter username: @rhys_isterix

Suggest a category: social media

Why do you deserve an award?: i believe i deserve a golden twit award because i 140% know how to make the best use of 140characters in order to put my point across #irony

What were the objectives?: i have always sought to use twitter as a market place for information and communication blending social media news, personal views & lolcats

What have you achieved?: i built up a following of 40,000 followers to prove that with the right blend of information that it is possible to attract a large audience

Twitter username: @Aleksandr_Orlov

Suggest a category: Meerkat Comparison

Why do you deserve an award?: Because I am workings night & day to clear up confusion between meerkat & market. Plus, award would be perfect for use as toilet doorstop.

What were the objectives?: To tell many peoples that I can only compare meerkats, not car insurance. Oh, and to keep people update on what I having for breakfast.

What have you achieved?: Unfortunate peanut-brains still ask me for car insurance, but I at least convince interwebs that millipede baguette is perfect lunch snack!

Twitter username: @alfox

Why do you deserve an award?: My mission is to make the work days of followers a little less worky and a bit more funny ha ha. I shot J.R. I can pay you. I rock.

What were the objectives?: To educate myself. To promote good causes.To waste even more time. To spread a smile and hopefully a laugh to others.

What have you achieved?: A wonderful year of discovery, some touching comments, the honour of many RTs. But most of all the finding of new friends! Awww.