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.

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: @VolumeGroup

Suggest a category: Social Media Developments

Why do you deserve an award?: Always @ the forefront providing insight in2 social media (SM) & digital dev. PLUS we R the SM gurus – we’re a SM guestblogger dontcha know

What were the objectives?: to increase the volume profile, increase web traffic, become social media know-it-alls

What have you achieved?: Twitter has become one of the top 3 referral sites for not only our site but client campaigns. We are officially social media gurus now!

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: @Brindleyplace

Why do you deserve an award?: Informative, interesting and entertaining updates on the latest happenings at Birmingham’s Brindleyplace estate.

What were the objectives?: To keep those who work and visit Brindleyplace up to date on the latest events and news from the estate.

What have you achieved?: Excellent click through rates to the Brindleyplace website and a growing band of happy followers!

Twitter username: @KayPringle

Why do you deserve an award?: tweettastically talented!

What were the objectives?: To keep in contact with clients on daily basis with useful info.

What have you achieved?: More links, more business, low carbon, low cost. The perfect client writing service.

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.

Your company: Channel 4 Homes

Twitter username: @4homes

Why do you deserve an award?: Pioneering live tweeting during Channel 4 property shows and establishing a conversation with our site users and C4 viewers

What were the objectives?: To provide DVD-style commentary on an interactive platform, answering viewer questions & supplying info during broadcasts

What have you achieved?: Dedicated fanbase, increasing the reach of 4Homes brand, establishing better relationships with C4 talent & other property & design portals

Twitter username: @EthosPR

Why do you deserve an award?: Because our posts make sense in 140 characters without relying on truncating words or losing the sense or good English usage or punctuation.

What were the objectives?: We aim to provide followers with timely news from our clients. We also provide insight and thought on a wide variety of subjects dear to us.

What have you achieved?: We have a loyal band of followers who RT our messages to the wider world. We believe we tweet stuff that is interesting and relevant to all.

Twitter username: @draytonmanor

Suggest a category: Leisure

Why do you deserve an award?: We’re ahead of the curve in our industry – we use Twitter as part of our integrated comms activity and we’re actively engaging with our fans

What were the objectives?: Share our news, have two-way conversations with fans, monitor for online complaints, get customer feedback and swap stories of park visits

What have you achieved?: We’ve quickly built a good follower base with high positive interaction. Monitoring means we deal with complaints quickly to protect brand

Twitter username: @realalereviews

Suggest a category: Beer writing and blogging

Why do you deserve an award?: We enhance the accessibility, variety, standards and reputation of beer writing and beer to the public and beer lovers of all types

What were the objectives?: In May just to start a blog; now it’s to be a key presence for beer info & writing in the UK & beyond, improving access to beer writing

What have you achieved?: So far we’ve joined the British Guild of Beer Writers, a Wikio Wine & Beer listing at 18 & become a trusted voice in the beer community

Twitter username: @skinnipopcorn

Suggest a category: Movies

Why do you deserve an award?: @skinnipopcorn brings the latest movie information to your twitter feed and encourages discussion about movies

What were the objectives?: Designed to help build a community around Twitter movie buzz site, www.skinnipopcorn.com

What have you achieved?: Over 900 followers, engagement with Twitter, press coverage. tweeted about by Twitter’s co founder Biz Stone. RT’s

Twitter username: @glasgowshopping

Suggest a category: fashion

Why do you deserve an award?: Engaging content reinforcing Glasgow City Centre’s reputation for shopping. Advising on what’s hot, new and in store on the highstreet.

What were the objectives?: Drive traffic to buchanangalleries.co.uk and it’s stores sites. Position the shopping centre as a leading advisor in high street fashion.

What have you achieved?: Increase in traffic. 2-way communication with target audience. Followers ask for fashion advice, retweet info and recommend through #FF.

Your company: Keep Britain Tidy

Twitter username: @KeepBritainTidy

Why do you deserve an award?: Litter isn’t sexy or techy yet we’ve got people tweeting about our cause everyday!We always tweet back and give advice, info and praise!

What were the objectives?: To directly speak to the public about their experiences of litter & help publicise those fighting litter successfully.Get our message out!

What have you achieved?: Daily interaction with people who care about our cause.Conversations about litter spread like wildfire & more litter fighters=less litter!:)

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

Suggest a category: Freebies!

Why do you deserve an award?: I use Twitter to help my friends save money online by posting links to sales, special offers, voucher codes and freebies

What were the objectives?: As someone who has struggled with credit card debt, I want to still enjoy shopping online. I now share my ideas on Twitter

What have you achieved?: Followers growing every day – have cut my debt from £26k to under £16k in just two years and still love shopping online!

Twitter username: @wearenation1

Why do you deserve an award?: check out www.nation1.co.uk/twitter – i think we’ve got a good grasp of twitter and by winning we could help convince our clients to adopt.

What were the objectives?: experiment, get news out below the radar, stimulate interest in events, re-inforce our social media creds, follow leaders in this sector

What have you achieved?: we filled our twitter event, got 30 responses to our halloween ball, got a few articles in scotsman and good feedback on live projects

Twitter username: @bunnyfootsays

Why do you deserve an award?: We regularly send round free tips & advice into the design community about making websites more usable, including our own Usability Toolkit

What were the objectives?: The objective is to bring a basic level of usability into all websites, bringing users a better experience and increasing ROI on the web.

What have you achieved?: Our links are regularly retweeted in the community and we have been thanked personally many times for their usefulness.

Twitter username: @michaeljbailey

Suggest a category: Sport journalist to sport fans

Why do you deserve an award?: Trumpet blowing: I’m the office example of how to make good use of Twitter; proved it’s worth. I provide opinion, behind scenes info & fun.

What were the objectives?: To boost my following, get my name known as a journalist & NCFC authority, provide insight into the job, taste stories & to have my say.

What have you achieved?: I’ve a healthy following & regular twitchats with them. The papers and several hacks have set up twits & joined me. It’s part of what we do.

Your company: BHP Information Solutions

Twitter username: @MarketingDonut

Why do you deserve an award?: Our Twitter account has made small business advice accessible, engaging and an enjoyable daily resource to help small firms to thrive

What were the objectives?: Use Twitter as a means of sharing the best ideas & using our following to get involved to share experiences with a wider connected audience

What have you achieved?: #mydonut trending topic online conference for smallbiz. UGC from our followers to create a Marketing Manifesto. Fun, laughter & conversation

Twitter username: RockRadioEditor

Suggest a category: Music news

Why do you deserve an award?: We’ve connected at a brilliant and deep level with a massively passionate audience. We really got it right!

What were the objectives?: Announce rock news headlines and express the brand character. We exist to rock and we prove it every day!

What have you achieved?: We’ve more than tripled our web hits in 3 months and even sourced news from Twitter. Plus, we’re having a great time doing it!

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.

Twitter username: @Glossagency

Why do you deserve an award?: For promoting creative jobs and info in a time of high unemployment and building fantastic relationships with clients and temp/perm staff.

What were the objectives?: To highlight vacancies we have available and the ways and means to improve chances of work through interviews, cvs and general appearance.

What have you achieved?: Great response to our tweets from people registered with us, especially about the links regarding top tips. We have also filled vacancies.

Your company: Litopia

Twitter username: @litopia

Why do you deserve an award?: Litopia is committed to being the cutting edge of publishing & writing. We’re helping our community with the change from analogue to digital

What were the objectives?: To provide thoughts & links of inspiration, information & support from the Litopia Writer’s Colony & the worlds largest writer’s podcast.

What have you achieved?: We share experience & knowledge to an evergrowing community. If we inspire writers and help them get published then we have achieved our aim

Your company: Action for Children

Twitter username: @aslongasittakes

Why do you deserve an award?: We just launched a #neglect appeal,had great responses on Twitter so far,raising awareness with supporters,and got celebrities tweeting!

What were the objectives?: To tell tweeters about the #neglect appeal through news stories and engage with @ThisisDavina to tweet about our advert aired on 12 October

What have you achieved?: Over 300 new followers in 4weeks from @ThisisDavina mentioning advert,YouTube views to over 400,news stories tweeted + awareness raised!

Twitter username: @gradyorks

Suggest a category: education, recruitment

Why do you deserve an award?: a recruitment service with a personality spreading grad jobs, careers advice and info in a difficult climate in our region

What were the objectives?: To raise awareness of our service to graduates and interest groups, engage with users and show that we’re a company with personality.

What have you achieved?: We have exactly 1,000 follows have made some great connections leading to national press coverage and a invite to parliment!

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: @4320LA @4320LA_Kelvin – @4320LA_Nathan – @4320LA_Matt

Suggest a category: Travel Marketing

Why do you deserve an award?: We pushed the boundaries of our travellers and our team’s creativity to bring something a little bit different to Twitter for 72 hours.

What were the objectives?: We challenged 3 friends to take on LA non-stop, for 72 hours. Their challenge: to send a tweet every minute (all 4320 of them).

What have you achieved?: A live tweet feed of 4320 tweets showcasing the best adventures in LA in a short time frame now hosted on a website for future travellers

Twitter username: @zoe9

Why do you deserve an award?: I deserve the award because I’m authentic & real. I also practice what I preach and understand how important it is to maintain a dialogue.

What were the objectives?: To improve my profile within the digital marketing industry. Build my knowledge & understanding of social media to help the Cisco business

What have you achieved?: Started in Oct 08 & have grown my following organically to 813 followers without using spamming. Key member of Cisco Twitter Taskforce group

Your company: NESTA

Twitter username: @nesta_uk

Why do you deserve an award?: We began as an unknown & now have an impressive following of amazing peeps. And we’re growing. We broadcast, but also share the Twitter-love

What were the objectives?: Increase our visibility online; promote our activities; engage with our audience; attract new audiences; dabble with new tech; and have fun!

What have you achieved?: It’s opened our eyes to the power of the people. Our ‘fans’ have provided guidance; feedback; inspiration; loyalty & thought-provoking info.

Twitter username: @greenparty_ie

Suggest a category: Politics / Environmentalism

Why do you deserve an award?: We’re saving the world, 140 characters at a time. We’re engaging online. And we exclusively tweeted a government programme. A world first?

What were the objectives?: 2 parties in Irish Government agreed new work programme. Everyone wanted it. We were in media crosshairs & needed it out fast so we tweeted.

What have you achieved?: It was our 559th tweet and picked up 1482 clicks in a few hours – 10 times the average click rate. http://short.ie/z0xnem. Followers soared.

Twitter username: @TomHusseyphoto

Why do you deserve an award?: Because we have now learned to say what we need to say concisely.

What were the objectives?: To keep in touch, make new friends, show new work and keep a finger on the pulse.

What have you achieved?: Kept in touch with old friends,made new friends & have been inspired to make new images to tweet. We now know things before anyone else.

Your company: Moray Firth Live

Twitter username: @morayfirthlive

Suggest a category: News aggregation

Why do you deserve an award?: Because I want break the tradition that exists in the news industry that it is competitive. Collaboration will save the news industry.

What were the objectives?: To gather and distribute news and information economically and informatively, using video, audio, text, pictures and links

What have you achieved?: A top 50 tweeters in Scotland listing, top google ranking, Good YouTube ranking for news videos, hosted a live charity auction for twestival

Twitter username: @nick_at_gorkana

Why do you deserve an award?: Launching GorkanaPR News on twitter & gathering a loyal following of over 300 readers & counting. Plus Dom Joly messaged me the other day!

What were the objectives?: Expanding the PR news audience, connecting with readers new and old, promoting Gorkana and PR news through social media

What have you achieved?: Increased followers, increased subscribers to our free news, valuable networking, story leads, sales leads and some great jokes.

Twitter username: @snowleopard_man

Why do you deserve an award?: Raising awareness of the endangered plight of the Snow Leopard cat

What were the objectives?: Ongoing attempt to raise awareness and funds for the Snow Leopard Cat (and SL Vodka which is set up to raise funds too)

What have you achieved?: Ongoing awareness scheme. Awareness has been raised, looking to do more.

Your company: System One Travelcards

Twitter username: @systemonetravel

Why do you deserve an award?: Because unlike the Meerkats, it’s not necessarily ’simples’ to make public transport engaging!

What were the objectives?: Engage with local businesses and consumers, link travelcards to local activities/venues, show added value, develop the brand personality.

What have you achieved?: Bringing the brand to life, steadily extending brand reach locally, one new biz enquiry since launch last month.

Your company: Storm Ideas Ltd

Twitter username: @twibbon

Why do you deserve an award?: Undertweeting! After carefully accruing more than 200,000 followers, we only wanted to issue relevant and infrequent information.

What were the objectives?: To invigorate the Twibbon brand by engaging our online userbase with content that was either cause, brand or Twibbon-related.

What have you achieved?: Over 100 million mentions of Twibbon, visible through Twitter feeds, 40% month on month growth for our site traffic. Something’s working

Twitter username: @TheBelugaClub

Why do you deserve an award?: We are so good that @NuriaS424 has stolen our tweets. We offer great advice on love & romance and we make people smile.

What were the objectives?: The original objective was to raise awareness of our brand & show how unique The Beluga Club is in the dating sector.

What have you achieved?: Lots. 40% of traffic to our site comes from Twitter. We also help people with their love/dating questions and enjoy topical debates daily.