Valleywag points out that Barack Obama, or at least his tweet staffers, has risen to the top of the list in terms of number of followers on Twitter with around 56,000, and Digg founder Kevin Rose is in a close second.
The report comes from a non-Twitter associated site, Twitterholic.com, that tracks the users’ stats daily.
There is a plethora of other techies in the top 20, including Chris Pirillo and Tech Crunch’s Michael Arrington, and news feeds from sites like CNN. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory which twitters for the Phoenix Mars Lander with mission updates, including posting about the discovery of ice on the planet, is now in the number five slot.
Obama’s campaign seems to have quickly mastered this new media, which has become its own news wire of sorts for breaking stories and instantaneous live posts, but can Kevin Rose rally and out-friend the presidential candidate?
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