In the deafening internet aviary that is Twitter, there are a few birds you always read; razor-sharp predators, professional daredevils and irresistible soft eggs whose tweets you never miss. I have listed them, compiled a top 20.
Criteria
To be nominated, a candidate had to be interesting to strangers. Even without a personal connection, the tweets had to be appreciable. I think all tweeted farts from my sweetheart are wonderful, but I won't do them to anyone else.
Twitter users that everyone already knows were not allowed to participate. I am interested in the surprises, the unknown gems from the province. So @jochemmyjer and @MinPres are excluded from participation, however funny. Because she writes for De Volkskrant, @sylviawitteman is out, while @vinexvrouwtje, a rising star, does play and immediately lands in first place. A fine line, I realize. In due time I would like to discuss this. With a drink.
Not every tweet from the top 20 is brilliant. There are quibbles, misplaced jokes, canada telegram data and incomprehensible things. Imperfections reveal true beauty. But I disqualified anyone who checked in with Foursquare even once.
With our intern @erwinh I came up with a formula algorithm. We divided the number of followers by the number of following and multiplied this by the tweets over period N minus 1. And raised that result to the third power. Something like that.
the number of hours of sleep and the groundwater level.
Staff
You have to rely on your Twitter friends. @nielshermus, @inflicted24, @MargaVoice, @pieter_kos, @ottenjeffrey and @chrisdemoor were kind enough to share their favorites with me. They provided new pearls or confirmed my judgment.