Okay, Billboard, so you’ve got your annual Twitter 140: The Music Industry Characters You Need to Follow special. But it’s a bit American.

We won’t be getting essential GOLD MEDAL updates, X Factor UK commentary and cultural references to chips from them.

Record Of The Day had a stab at suggesting some British music industry figures to follow, but we’ve also been doing some thinking.

Here’s our list of 50 people (mainly) in digital music who (as far as we know) are British or UK-based and who (sometimes) tweet interesting things. Or the BritTwit 50, as we like to call it.

If you’re not in, we still love you, don’t hate us. If you are in, tell the world (but tell your colleagues who aren’t in not to hate us). And make suggestions in the comments for other BritTwits worth following. We’ll be maintaining an expanded Twitter list….

_karenpiper
Head of Digital Marketing at Columbia UK. Geek and pain in the arse. Opinions are my own. Obviously.

adrian_read
a red brick wall, again

AJCardoo
Digital Guy @ Absolute Marketing & Distribution. I also mix good tunes. Please feed me good music and bad puns.

andymalt
Editor of @cmu. Write about music and the music business, babble about the same on a podcast. That sort of thing.

baumschlager
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, imagination covers the world. Albert Einstein

bendrury
Co-founder and CEO of 7digital. Unashamed geek.

CamilleJTA
Ex music ed for a mag & radio producer, now web design/tech start up geek, record label lady, interested in digital entertainment platforms. Views all mine.

chateau_de_dave
Working at SoundCloud.com, making music at BrightSparkDestroyer.co.uk, being me at flavors.me/adams_david

christianward
Digital publicist for BBC, musician, writer. All my own views. Just written a book for kids called Death’s Daughter, available on Amazon

clive_gardiner
Commercial Strategy Consultant – Digital | Entertainment Media | Music | Technology | Licensing |

davechase
Burberry head of music. All opinions are my own.

davidemery
Head of Marketing for Beggars Group Records music/web/photos

davidriley
Director of Good Lizard Media. Digital Marketing and Consultancy.

dmuper
Helo i am Dumper i do workexpereiance at Pop Justice, ienjoy socielising and music

Dubber
Reader in Music Industries Innovation at Birmingham City University. And other stuff.

duncangeere
London- (and soon to be Gothenburg-) based enthusiast. #wetweathergeere. News Editor at Wired.co.uk.

edd_b
beekeeper, coffee-fan, f1-fan & geek. Digital Consultant for @polydorrecords + @fictionrecords My own work/blog here @stalkthewolves

EmmaBarnett
Digital Media Editor at The Daily Telegraph, LBC Sunday drivetime presenter, Radio 4 doc maker & presenting new Sky 1 digital show. always on a mission…

girlimperfectly
Head of Online PR & webmaster at @roadrunner_uk. It may sound cool but really I’m a goon. Broken hearted but of ample soul // part time Mom to @runwalk

haynes_dave
SoundCloud. Music Hack Day, OpenMusicMedia. Dad.

helienne
Songwriter, musician and columnist for the Guardian, The Australian and Netopia. Views are my own. helienne.com.

iamSim
100% buzzword compliant | digital things @columbiauk | sometimes write @hotcakesfm | always love #watfordfc

jackmelhuish
Director of Marketing (previously Digital) for Atlantic UK, Music Week’s label of the year and 3 x DMA winners 2011

kierondonoghue
Founder ShareMyPlaylists.com. Long live the mixtape!……also responsible for retweet.co.uk & contentnow.co.uk

LaraKbaker
AIM’s Marketing & Events Manager – organsier of the AIM Independent Music Awards. Rock enthusiast.

Laurasnapes
I’m the president of the Howdy Doody circus army. And associate editor, @pitchforkmedia. Wait, you mean you had the 90s too?

lucyjones
Write about music at the Telegraph and work on online news. Soon to be of NME. Collect snowglobes

lukelewis
Editor, NME.COM

Mark_Mulligan
Music Industry bigmouth

martynrdavies
CEO at @sixtwoprods, does creative development, Music Hack Days and consulting on music tech, hack days and open APIs. Ex BBC and Universal Music Group.

McGregorSam
I do: Music Marketing at @goodlizardmedia , Artist Beers at @signaturebrew and Occasional Tromboning with whoever needs it. I’m a nice guy. Hello.

mr_trick
Founder, Motive Unknown, a strategic digital marketing consultancy. Also curate Daily Digest music/tech mailout and blog for Music Ally.

nedtweets
Technologist; Social Gun For Hire. Formerly of Rough Trade, EMI, Universal and Essence Digital

nhsriley
Matt Riley = Digital Marketing + Sync Licensing at @hospitalrecords

nikhilshah
Mixcloud // ManMakeMusic // Silicon Roundabout Social Club // Sketchy

PaulScaife
A simple man, who wants for nothing except good health, a decent tune, happy cycling and to be retweeted furiously. Glues Record of the Day together.

perreau
Right-brained rationalism | Creative | Journo | Digital | Music | Wishful Polymath | Ex-NME | Ex-Sky | Inexorably Disruptive | My own views, obviously.

Popjustice
Purveyors Of Amazing Pop Music

Pursehouse
The gentleman behind the Sentric blog/podcast & @sentricmusic & @shutthebookup. Likes puns. If you have some puns then please share them.

RozzerM
Head of the internet at Atlantic Records UK. I also do very good ping pong. Thoughts my own, etc.

seaninsound
A distracted… // Founder: @drownedinsound // Columnist: Sunday Times @st_culture‎ // Tweet-length LP reviews @seaninrcrds

shak
Head of Special Projects @path – Friend of charity : water – Advisor and Investor @spotify

soundboy
some things i love- live music, cycling, machine learning, China, rock climbing, food courts in singapore, the wire. CEO & co-founder Songkick.com

SrhHswl
Content Acquisition Coordinator at SoundCloud

steoreilly
head of sport and entertainment at @mobileroadie

sydlawrence
I am a social web guru using HTML6, CSS4, and AJAZ on the cloud. Member of twitbook and facedIn. Expert with paint, frontpage and VBScript

TomDavenport
Freelance tech and music journalist, occasional recording engineer. See my site for info and blog.

tsingham
Music Week Editor. Jumped-up pantry boy, man of wealth and taste. Loudon Wainwright for President.

undisco
Head Of Technical & Creative, EMI Music UK. Digital Marketing Technologist managing production of websites, mobile apps, social media apps for EMI UK’s artists.

will_mills_
Director Music & Content @shazam. I work in Music & Tech. Former A&R, Manager, Writer/Producer.

wreckingball37
Songkick.com: C3PO (cofounder, commander-in-chief of product and officers)

And if that’s not enough BritTwits for you, there’s always the Music Ally team – we kept ourselves off this list for modesty’s sake. But @eamonn_forde @stuartdredge @musicallypaul @karim_fanous @robowenmac and @robertalifonso are all worth a follow. Possibly.