There are many Celebs on both Twitter and Facebook, and it occured to me that the "fame" that many celebrities have is mainly dictated by the number of followers they have. The more famous you are, the more followers you have. If you're popular, you are more famous. If you were once famous but it was years ago, you don't have as many followers. On Twitter, at the time of writing this, I have 270 followers.

Now I'm not famous by ANY means. I've been on the radio a couple of times discussing the 80s for one of my other websites listed on the right, and I was recently on the BBC Genius panel after sending in a Genius idea to the BBC that they wanted to include in the TV series. To be honest, hugging Dave Gorman in the green room afterwards was probably the closest I've ever been to fame. Oh, and I shook hands after interviewing Matthew Smith, creater of my all time favourite ZX Spectrum game Manic Miner. That is it. Those events are my entire list of "claims to fame".

So how many Twitter followers DO famous people have?

I did a search and was quite suprised how many, or how few, some celebs have.

Lee MacDonald, who played Zammo in Grange Hill, has just 659 followers. Gordon Burns, Krypton Factor presenter, has just 2453. Surely these people should have MANY more than this?

Moira Stuart, my mate informed me, has just 54 followers. She presents the National News! 54!?! I'm already more famous, follower-wise, than her!

And so it began - I decided to try to get more Twitter followers than famous people.

I compiled a list of celebs, along with their follower numbers and their Twitter IDs. I sorted it by follower numbers, to show celebs with the least followers at the bottom.

I then set up a new Twitter account, called @MoreFamousThan and proceeded to become More Famous Than celebs.

If you're passing Twitter, please stop by and click to follow me. The list is the background image on my Twitter account. All I'm doing is getting as many followers as possible, to outfame celebs. It's purely for a laugh and in no way malicious. If any celebs take offense, I will remove them from the list.

As of right now, I'm more famous than Fred Talbot, Moira Stuart, Julia Hardy and Lee MacDonald.

@MoreFamousThan