Golden Twits

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.

Your company: IAS b2b

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

Your company: Soula Ltd

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: petchums

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…

Your company: Consolidated PR

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.

Your company: Brand Nu

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

Your company: QUBA

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.

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.

Your company: Hands On

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.

Your company: Fox Communications

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.