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;
  • No public Twitter messages.
• Trevor Chambers | Executive Creative Director Start Creative Ltd;
  • No public Twitter messages.
• Rowan Heasley of naked penguin boy;
  • No public Twitter messages.
• Syd Nadim | Clock;
  • Right – back in action. What an awesome week. Glad to see it’s still snowing in London! # 16 hours ago
• Sue Llewellyn | Many Hands Media;
  • Quasimodo awakes, spine feels like a double helix. Greetings ibuprofen. # 18 mins ago
• Mat Morrison | Head of Digital Planning at Porter Novelli;
  • No public Twitter messages.
• Carl Hopkins | Kloog;
  • @JM_TwitFit if you wAnt discount on protein shakes let me know # 9 hours ago
• Dave Trott | CST Advertising;
  • No public Twitter messages.
• Adam Sefton | Reading Room;  and
  • No public Twitter messages.
• Gordon Young | The Drum.
  • RT @BrianInkster: RT @karasmamedia: How to Be the King (or Queen) of Social Media At Your Firm http://tinyurl.com/9fc2hp # 6 hours 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