Leo Laporte has shot to the top of the Twitterverse, at least according to the unofficial Twitterholic. This currently says he has 32,630 followers, which puts him ahead of Digg's Kevin Rose (32,524) and Barack Obama (31,431). Megatweeter Robert Scoble (24,091) is in fifth place.
Laporte is best known from his radio, TV and Web shows such as The Tech Guy Labs.
Twitter started as an inconsequential micro-blogging service that was picked up by well-known bloggers such as Scoble, Jason Calacanis, Michael Arrington, and Guy Kawasaki. However, the Twitterholic top 100 now includes CNN Breaking News, CNET News.com and, in 99th place, The New York Times.
Fast forward a couple of years and will the top of Twitterholic be dominated by mainstream media organizations such as The New York Times and USA Today, the BBC and all the US television stations, Reuters and AP, with up-to-the-minute news feeds?
Or is Twitter news essentially a waste of time when you can already get all the news feeds you want via RSS?
Should the Guardian be sending out a stream of news tweets, and if so, why?
Guardian Technology is, of course, already on Twitter at twitter.com/guardiantech, so you could well have been alerted to this blog post via Twitter (and via Twitterfeed).
