Why do you deserve an award?: I’ve grown my personal brand & reputation in my industry over 8 months. Managed to get some of the top online marketing people to follow me

What were the objectives?: Get top people in digital to follow me and interact with my posts, get retweeted, establish myself as a top Twitter user in my local area

What have you achieved?: Greatest achievement was getting Electronic Arts @brutallegend Twitter account to re-tweet my website review of the game’s official website

Twitter username: @scarpadog

Why do you deserve an award?: cover all aspects of what I do and what influences or effects me on a day to day basis from music to art to film the internet and the news

What were the objectives?: to share experiences and discuss with like minded people throughout the world and promote my architecture+photography

What have you achieved?: interview with online magazine archimag, discovered previously unpublished architecture and art, requests for use of my pics, self promotion

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: @butephoto

Why do you deserve an award?: I rock!

What were the objectives?: To promote the Whisky Whisky Whisky forum.

What have you achieved?: Over 300 members within a year.

Twitter username: @the_nose

Suggest a category: Food/Drink

Why do you deserve an award?: Most interactive of the whisky companies

What were the objectives?: Provide information on whisky, to engage with whisky consumers & prospective consumers and to meet new people/enjoy the conversation online

What have you achieved?: Considerable online following, SEO boost, correcting myths about whisky (and Whyte and Mackay), enjoyment and enlightenment

Twitter username: @jailhouserock

Why do you deserve an award?: It will convince my friends and family that Twitter is not a complete waste of time and typing

What were the objectives?: To keep in touch with friends, family and stalkers – and to test out Twitter too and to justify my iphone

What have you achieved?: They all follow me so I no longer need to spend time writing lengthy blogs and sending email replies to ‘what r u doing these days?’

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).

Why do you deserve an award?: An award would help other architects find us, and other people interested to engage with architects too.

What were the objectives?: I was looking for other construction people on twitter so that they could find each other and start engaging. But its become more than that.

What have you achieved?: We now have over 600 architects, students and practices sharing information and redefining the brand ‘architect’ in all its facets

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!

Twitter username: @JustinMcKeown

Why do you deserve an award?: My tweeting got @Wossy to auction his TV sofa for charidee, intro’d Chris Moyles to Twitter, caused a surge in calls 2 the Speaking Clock.

What were the objectives?: I tweet for fun and for work. Have made connections that have paid dividends in traditional media too.

What have you achieved?: Tweeting has generated TV appearances (Working Lunch), radio exposure (Wake Up To Moyles), boosted Spk Clk calls for Comic Relief (£300k)

Twitter username: @chrish10

Suggest a category: position within relevant communityy

Why do you deserve an award?: no hard sell approach with support & info 2 all & well received! Always based on collaboration & engagement-blog:http://tinyurl.com/yhqj3cq

What were the objectives?: inform,engage,& collaborate with relevant communities & find new markets, partners and knowledge share.

What have you achieved?: I’m(& company)well respected, trusted & followed member.Called upon 4 support & able 2 give solutions/answers. new clients & friends found

Twitter username: @colingilchrist

Why do you deserve an award?: For actually knowing 80% of my friends; for using it to create conversation or communicate, not to self promote, punt services or products.

What were the objectives?: To build profile, and be a valuable asset to my community.

What have you achieved?: Key speaker for seminars (x 6 to date), including local Government. Designed a Twitter tool for business: Tweetabits and do client strategy.

Twitter username: @t47lor

Why do you deserve an award?: Leading web designer on top of the latest trends and movements with a real focus to share and improve the design community

What were the objectives?: To improve the design community, increase awareness, network and learn new stuff

What have you achieved?: Great networking tool, fantastic results for real-time searching and keeping up with the latest going-ons in the sector

Twitter username: @davescook

Why do you deserve an award?: For delivering a rare insight into the Scottish games industry and games journalism that you can’t get elsewhere.

What were the objectives?: To raise my profile as an authoritative games journalist in Scotland and to Tweet about interesting game news

What have you achieved?: Absolutely, I’m up for a second consectutive Games Media Awards for my Scotsman games column.

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: @kev_charlton

Why do you deserve an award?: I like to think my account is an accurate representation of my character, includes great links, and hey, I employed someone through it!

What were the objectives?: No objectives, twitter to me is something that should be natural, and not fake. It’s just me, and an insight to what I love most.

What have you achieved?: I’ve gathered a lot of followers from the Leeds area, meaning it has been great for meeting people. Plus I employed someone for fuse8!

Your company: guardian

Twitter username: @arusbridger

Suggest a category: media

Why do you deserve an award?: Used Twitter to help publicise a gagging injunction against the Guardian

What were the objectives?: To make people aware that the Guardian could not report parliament

What have you achieved?: Within four days the PM and numerous MPs addressed the issue of super-injunctions + reporting of parly. The gag was lifted

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: @dbedwood

Suggest a category: Left handed Ginger Brummies

Why do you deserve an award?: Since tweeting the women I married now loathes and detests me and my iphone. That’s some achievement in 140 characters.

What were the objectives?: To make someone who loves me loathe and detest me.

What have you achieved?: The goal was achieved, evidenced by wife’s comments that have also been tweeted. Thus a feedback loop of hatred was created.

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.

Twitter username: @craigmcgill

Why do you deserve an award?: For being one of the early advocates of Twitter in Scotland, helping to push Twitter as a communications channel in Scotland.

What were the objectives?: Purely to show the many uses of Twitter – for conversation, for raising awareness, for fun, for making new friends

What have you achieved?: I’ve generated business leads, made new friends, built up a support network as a tweeting dad and had some fantastic times from twitter