The Golden Twit Awards, which is free to enter, aims to celebrate the best in Twittering.

Unlike other schemes which are purely judged through online voting the Golden Twits includes a live, living and breathing jury, whose task it to ensure the winners are selected on merit although as opposed to jiggery pokery and gerrymandering.

That jury already includes:

• Peter Abraham | Director Econsultancy.com;
  • Tips for usability testing with children: Children represent a huge market for digital products yet most are desi… http://bit.ly/9A57KY # 4 hours ago
• Trevor Chambers | Executive Creative Director Start Creative Ltd;
  • Has anyone else been inundated with mailshots from potential candidates? Read on … http://blog.startcreative.co.uk/ # 4 hours ago
• Rowan Heasley of naked penguin boy;
  • Win a dancing tea lady – http://www.cafedirecttealady.co.uk/ # 2010/02/24
• Syd Nadim | Clock;
  • RT @DerrenBrown: Blog post: ‘Near-Perfect’ Hydrophobic Surface Inspired By Spiders (http://cli.gs/dR2NN) << Water off a spider’s back then! # 2010/03/07
• Sue Llewellyn | Many Hands Media;
  • @circeplum Poor you. Bastards. Can the cops help? Damsel in Distress. *sending hugs and a hitman* # 5 hours ago
• Mat Morrison | Head of Digital Planning at Porter Novelli;
  • @andismit I’m doing yr marketing for you. You don’t want people to DIY, surely? # 27 mins ago
• Carl Hopkins | Kloog;
  • @CMoz I agree, I like it too… But not if I’m old enough to be their dad. And as I’m pretty ancient it includes more and more each day # 17 hours ago
• Dave Trott | CST Advertising;
  • REASONS AND EXCUSES http://community.brandrepublic.com/blogs/dtb/default.aspx # 1 hour ago
• Adam Sefton | Reading Room;  and
  • @phildearson Did your design not take into account moving the UGC through the Social Blogosphere via Internet Weblogs? Amateur … # 2 hours ago
• Gordon Young | The Drum.
  • RT @TheDrum: For some sage advice from Uncle Carl go to http://bit.ly/9k2apd # 58 mins ago

More top names to follow.

Judges are looking for:

• Originality and creativity
• Re-tweet-ability
• Brand noise and sentiment
• Flair
• Creativity
• RT rate
• Cause and effect
• Comment
• Opinion
• Trivia
• Information
• Contacts
• Entertainment

But no:

• Soul searching
• Pep talks
• God
• Porn

The Golden Twits entry deadline is October 22, and the event will be staged in London in November. For further information on the event email kimberley.baran@carnyx.com