Twitter Top 100

Last year the Hay Festival held a competition to find the 'most beautiful tweet ever tweeted'.

Judged by Stephen Fry (currently 61st in the Twitter Top 100) the winner was Marc MacKenzie, 41, from Canada. His tweet read: 

"I believe we can build a better world! Of course, it'll take a whole lot of rock, water & dirt. Also, not sure where to put it."

Not bad. But he'll have to do better if he wants to compete with this lot:

Lady Gaga - 9,398,021

Justin Bieber - 8,859,080

Britney Spears - 7,469,485

Barack Obama - 7,417,021

Kim Kardashian - 7,166,541

Katy Perry - 6,731,475

Ashton kutcher - 6,559,604

Ellen DeGeneres - 6,419,731

Taylor Swift - 5,991,838

Oprah Winfrey - 5,591,877

Shakira - 5,404,540

Selena Gomez - 4,840,376

Twitter - 4,837,224

Twitter en español - 4,626,354

Rihanna - 4,518,061

50cent - 4,419,676

Justin Timberlake - 4,338,641

Ryan Seacrest - 4,336,019

Mariah Carey - 4,180,426

Ashley Tisdale - 4,179,695

CNN Breaking News - 4,176,736

Marshall Mathers - 3,866,340

Paris Hilton - 3,777,047

P!nk - 3,720,082

Shaq - 3,702,220

Jessica Simpson - 3,671,159

Coldplay - 3,640,368

Charlie Sheen - 3,597,875

P Diddy - 3,585,046

TwitPic - 3,567,001

Alicia Keys - 3,499,284

Demi Moore - 3,490,772

Jimmy fallon - 3,434,559

Kaka - 3,405,870

Chelsea Handler - 3,355,349

Perez Hilton - 3,204,346

Snoop Dogg - 3,127,887

Nicki Minaj - 3,116,066

The New York Times - 3,103,792

Kanye West - 3,038,476

A Googler - 2,983,282

ÜberSocial - 2,976,339

Tyra Banks - 2,957,534

Jim Carrey - 2,956,087

Demetria Lovato - 2,925,861

Luciano Huck - 2,915,096

Conan O'Brien - 2,901,020

Khloé Kardashian - 2,849,226

E! Online - 2,849,133

Lily Allen - 2,819,881

Lance Armstrong - 2,798,388

Jonas Brothers - 2,758,683

Ricky Martin - 2,747,148

The Onion - 2,745,907

Soulja Boy - 2,731,322

People magazine - 2,503,520

Bill Gates - 2,482,310

Nick Jonas - 2,481,378

Kourtney Kardashian - 2,470,930

TIME.com - 2,466,265

Stephen Fry - 2,462,765

NBA - 2,453,022

Ashlee Simpson Wentz - 2,416,761

Nick Cannon - 2,413,902

Breaking News - 2,406,065

YouTube - 2,402,853

Cristiano Ronaldo - 2,394,166

Tony Hawk - 2,373,308

Chris Brown - 2,337,283

Ivete Sangalo - 2,334,340

Noah Everett - 2,322,884

John Legend - 2,304,757

RainnWilson - 2,273,060

Mandy Moore - 2,270,512

Pete Cashmore - 2,267,092

BET's 106 & Park - 2,243,722

Pete Wentz - 2,238,966

Al Gore - 2,234,819

Lenny Kravitz - 2,226,100

Russell Brand - 2,222,215

Justin - 2,218,069

Stephen Colbert - 2,213,865

JUANES - 2,205,494

Martha Stewart - 2,198,371

Dr. Drew - 2,171,515

Giuliana Rancic - 2,147,296

Drizzy Drake - 2,138,277

Joel McHale - 2,111,183

MC HAMMER - 2,086,814

The White House - 2,054,403

Rev Run - 2,031,362

NFL - 2,030,020

Snaptu - 2,022,558

Funny Or Die - 2,017,118

Nelly Furtado - 2,016,451

Arnold Schwarzenegger - 2,013,997

Sara Bareilles - 2,013,568

Serena Williams - 2,012,573

Al Yankovic - 2,004,861

Denise Richards - 1,998,160


And here, Josh Groban puts Kanye West's tweets to music with profound and moving results.