20 people to follow on Twitter who actually have something interesting to say

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(As opposed to 100 people on Twitter who are famous but who have absolutely nothing interesting to say, or famous people who have nothing interesting to say recommending other famous people who also have nothing interesting to say.)

1. A 50 pence coin

The voyages of an erstwhile 10 shillings through the fiduciary arteries of Great Britain.

2. A comma

How to deploy the world’s second most-ubiquitous punctuation point.

3. Some BBC sound effects

Beep-bip-bip-bip-beep-bip-bip-bip-beep-bip-beep-bip.

4. The moon

Everyone’s favourite one-sided dairy-based satellite.

5. A bench on Goole station

Photos from the same seating facility on the same platform, every day.

6. The second world war

Real-time updates on the bloodiest conflict in global history.

7. Bob Monkhouse

Everyone has to go sometimes. He usually goes during the adverts.

8. BBC Television Centre

Dour dispatches from one of the planet’s greatest buildings.

9. Adrian Mole

What Aidy is up to 30 years ago today.

10. The Office for National Statistics

Give me numbers.

11. The shipping forecast

Low German Bight 1007 and Biscay 1013 losing their identities by 0600 tomorrow.

12. The Hubble telescope

Watching you, watching it, watching you, watching it.

13. The Mass Observation archive

Watching us, watching it, watching you, watching out.

14. The BBC archive

Chris Serle’s sometime stamping ground.

15. Larry the Downing Street cat

REAL tweets from the REAL creature at the REAL heart of the coalition.

16. Big Ben

BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG.

17. Samuel Pepys

Comes to me Mr. Evelyn of Deptford, a good man; who is grieved for the times, and our ruin approaching.

18. Yes it’s number one

Indispensable gobbets of TOTP archivery.

19. Philip Larkin

It pleases him to stand in silence here.

20. Guardian style guide

Putting the world to writes [sic].