Journos/news
CNN Breaking News
CNN.com is among the world's leaders in online news and information delivery.7,545,884 followers | Follow
The New York Times
Where the Conversation Begins. Follow for breaking news, NYTimes.com home page articles, special features and RTs of our journalists.5,149,423 followers | Follow
Breaking News
Breaking news alerts around the world from hundreds of sources 24 hours a day. Get more on BreakingNews.com, and follow our team on @breaking.4,060,178 followers | Follow
BBC Breaking News
Breaking news alerts and updates from the BBC. For news, features, analysis follow @BBCWorld (our World edition) and @BBCNews (our UK edition).3,244,405 followers | Follow
The White House
Official WH twitter account. Comments & messages received through official WH pages are subject to the PRA and may be archived. Learn more http://wh.gov/privacy2,889,617 followers | Follow
UK Prime Minister
The official twitter channel for Prime Minister David Cameron's office, based at 10 Downing Street. Twitter policy: http://www.number10.gov.uk/number10online/1,997,321 followers | Follow
The Economist
Official site for The Economist. Follow for article updates, events and news from The Economist. To subscribe go to: http://econ.st/ddIkQq1,958,443 followers | Follow
Huffington Post
The Internet Newspaper - Curated by @kerstinshamberg, @lauralizhibbard, @socialmia, @deanpraetorius, @travelinganna1,838,031 followers | Follow
Reuters Top News
Reuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in business, politics, technology, and more.1,749,874 followers | Follow
Wall Street Journal
Breaking news, investigative reporting, business coverage and features from The Wall Street Journal.1,748,288 followers | Follow
The Associated Press
News, discussion and a behind-the-scenes look at the process from The Associated Press. Managed 24/7 by a team of editors based in NY: http://apne.ws/apstaff984,960 followers | Follow
United Nations
Official twitter account of United Nations. Get the latest information on the UN.862,366 followers | Follow
BBC News (UK)
The latest stories, features and updates from BBC News (UK edition). For world edition, follow @BBCWorld. For breaking news, follow @BBCBreaking730,051 followers | Follow
Sky News Newsdesk
The latest breaking news, direct from the Sky News team. Tweet @skynews with any questions or queries.553,390 followers | Follow
Drudge Report
The Drudge Report is a U.S. based news aggregation website run by Matt Drudge(@DRUDGE).319,798 followers | Follow
CNN International
Breaking News, World, Business, Sports and Entertainment News316,572 followers | Follow
HuffPost Politics
The latest political news from The Huffington Post's politics team.194,457 followers | Follow
Alastair Campbell
Writer, communicator, strategist, used to be Tony Blair's spokesman, now my own151,293 followers | Follow
CNN Political Ticker
124,159 followers | Follow
Simon Mayo
Radio person, Itch author and school run genius. Personal views obviously.111,722 followers | Follow
Daily Telegraph News
Breaking news, analysis, Matt cartoons and more from The Daily and Sunday Telegraph. We're also on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/telegraph.co.uk106,483 followers | Follow
Channel 4 News
In-depth analysis from our newsroom of experts, exclusive stories & breaking news. Follow the conversation with #c4news. For more from 4 follow @C4Insider102,814 followers | Follow
BBC Newsnight
TV news and current affairs programme broadcast at 2230 on BBC Two weekdays102,506 followers | Follow
Daily Mail Online
MailOnline News - The latest news, sport, showbiz, science and health stories from around the world from the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday84,657 followers | Follow
BBC Politics
The official account for political news from the BBC team based at Westminster75,675 followers | Follow
UK Parliament
Keeping an eye on government, debating laws, approving taxes. This official Twitter feed is produced by the web team in Parliament.73,303 followers | Follow
The Independent
News, comment and features from The Independent. Also follow: @IndyWorld, @IndyPolitics and our @Independent/journalists-on-twitter70,318 followers | Follow
Krishnan Guru-Murthy
You can email me on krishnan@channel4.com or http://www.facebook.com/krishnangm69,018 followers | Follow
Conservatives
Latest updates from the Conservative Party. Check out our lists for other accounts of interest.64,018 followers | Follow
Reuters Real Time
This account will only be active during breaking news events and provides very frequent updates. Follow @Reuters for major updates.56,851 followers | Follow
Tweetminster
A media utility that connects you to the influencers, trends and news that shape current affairs. On iPhone and iPad too. We also power @electionista.47,369 followers | Follow
PostPolitics
Political coverage from @WashingtonPost. Get social with @NGJennings and the @PostPolitics team about the news and conversation driving the nation's capital.42,055 followers | Follow
Faisal Islam
Economics Editor, C4 News If I inadvertently express an opinion here, it is mine alone. RTs don't endorse. And remember: there is no narrative.39,553 followers | Follow
Kevin Maguire
Daily Mirror associate editor. New Statesman columnist. Author. Regular broadcaster. Sunderland fan since a boy. Suburban man38,581 followers | Follow
Andrew Rawnsley
The Observer's award-winning Chief Political Commentator, critically-acclaimed broadcaster and author of Number One best-seller, The End of the Party.37,920 followers | Follow
New Statesman
Inside Britain's award-winning current affairs magazine. Please @ us with an intro when you follow.37,182 followers | Follow
Michael Crick
Political correspondent, Channel 4 News. Man United follower. Author, books on Militant, Arthur Scargill, J Archer, M Heseltine, Alex Ferguson, M Howard & MUFC34,179 followers | Follow
Liberal Democrats
British political party in government working to make the UK fairer for all. Led by Deputy Prime Minister @Nick_Clegg.32,895 followers | Follow
Associated Press
Links to the best content from the Associated Press on the Social Web.31,560 followers | Follow
adamboulton
Political Editor of Sky News. Moderator of 2010 Leaders Debate. Author30,246 followers | Follow
Paul Waugh
Editor of PoliticsHome.com News, gossip and comment from House of Commons29,034 followers | Follow
Cathy Newman
Presenter for Channel 4 News. Married to John with 2 little girls, Scarlett and Molly.27,954 followers | Follow
Mehdi Hasan
Senior Editor (politics) at the New Statesman magazine, biographer of Ed Miliband and presenter of Al Jazeera's The Cafe.27,908 followers | Follow
Evening Standard
Breaking news and updates on top London stories from the newsdesk of the Evening Standard25,762 followers | Follow
Politico 44
POLITICO44 is a new and innovative way to cover the Obama presidency, minute-by-minute.24,763 followers | Follow
HuffPost UK
24,580 followers | Follow
Breaking Tweets
Real-time, breaking news around the world, curated by @ckanal.21,343 followers | Follow
UN News Centre
Official twitter account of the United Nations News Centre, the UN's breaking news service. http://www.un.org/News/ http://www.facebook.com/UN.News.Centre20,649 followers | Follow
politicshomeuk
Staying on top of modern politics has become a full time job. PoliticsHome.com acts as an intelligent filter, giving min by min coverage of UK politics.20,526 followers | Follow
C4 News FactCheck
Testing the claims of people in power. For more from Channel 4 follow @Channel4News and @C4Insider20,171 followers | Follow
AndrewSparrow
Andrew Sparrow is the senior political correspondent on the Guardian website19,711 followers | Follow
Gideon Rachman
The chief foreign affairs commentator for the Financial Times shares his views19,466 followers | Follow
John Rentoul
Columnist, Independent on Sunday; visiting fellow, Queen Mary, Univ of London; biographer of Tony Blair; author, The Banned List; Political Tweeter of the Year17,376 followers | Follow
John Pienaar
BBC Radio 5 live's Chief Political Correspondent and presenter of Pienaar's Politics, every Sunday at 7pm on 5 live.15,439 followers | Follow
Will Straw
Associate Director at @ippr, founder of www.LeftFootForward.org @leftfootfwd, Blackburn Rovers fan. Tweets are mine.14,740 followers | Follow
glenoglazaSky
Political Correspondent Sky News. Views expressed are my own.14,133 followers | Follow
TheIndyPolitics
Politics news from the UK's most free-thinking newspaper.Also follow @Independent and our list of politics journalists @IndyPolitics/politics-desk14,055 followers | Follow
38 Degrees
38 Degrees brings you together with over 1 million people to take action on the issues that matter to you and bring about real change.13,423 followers | Follow
JamesLyons
Daily Mirror Deputy Political Editor. If you have a story please get in touch.13,312 followers | Follow
Laura Rozen
Reporting on Washington, foreign policy & Middle East. Find my work @AlMonitor. RTs not endorsements. Email lkrozen at gmail dot com12,433 followers | Follow
Gary Gibbon's Blog
Blog updates from @Channel4News's Political Editor, Gary Gibbon. For more from Channel 4 follow @C4Insider.11,669 followers | Follow
Rageh Omaar
International news reporter for Al Jazeera English, covering stories all over the world. Was BBC foreign correspondent for 12 years before that.11,465 followers | Follow
Reuters Politics
11,461 followers | Follow
Sunday Times News
The Sunday Times Online Newsroom: Follow our political reporter from the Houses of Parliament, and random (T)witterings from our Wapping newsroom.10,532 followers | Follow
Jane Merrick
Political Editor of the Independent on Sunday, views are my own etc10,440 followers | Follow
Telegraph Politics
Latest and breaking UK Politics news and analysis from the Telegraph's top team - Andrew Porter, Robert Winnett, @jameskirkup, Rosa Prince and @ChristopherHope10,422 followers | Follow
Alberto Nardelli
Co-founder of @tweetminster. We also power @electionista. I love politics, film, fashion and food.10,293 followers | Follow
LSE Politics&Policy
Experts analyse and debate recent developments across UK government. Views expressed are those of the authors and not those of the blog team or the LSE.10,227 followers | Follow
BBC Parliament/DL
BBC Parliament and Democracy Live: Pure politics from the BBC.10,047 followers | Follow
Allegra Stratton
Former Guardian Political Correspondent now tweeting under @BBCAllegra as Newsnight's Political Editor. This account will close soon.9,804 followers | Follow
Sun Politics
The Sun's political team giving you the inside track on Westminster9,081 followers | Follow
James Kirkup
Telegraph deputy political editor and blogger. My views, not TMG's.8,715 followers | Follow
Michael Savage
Times political staff. Former ping pong world record holder. Any views expressed here are my own, obv. You can contact me at michael.savage@thetimes.co.uk8,331 followers | Follow
Lib Dem Press Office
The official twitter account of the Liberal Democrat Press Office.7,848 followers | Follow
Ipsos MORI
Ipsos MORI is a leading research company in the UK and Ireland. Follow us for latest #MRX news and updates.7,532 followers | Follow
David Leigh
The Guardian's investigations editor, who helped jail Jonathan Aitken, exposed BAE secret payments and published Wikileaks data http://bit.ly/wikileaksbook7,319 followers | Follow
Chris Cook
FT education correspondent. Opinions/irritations expressed here are/were my own, not those of the FT.6,783 followers | Follow
Olly Grender
Rare tempting tweets whilst working at No10 on a maternity cover. Back in autumn 2012. Will still be watching. Once a tweeter always a tweeter!6,346 followers | Follow
Dave Wyllie
Editor @BreakingNews and @BreakingNewsUK. Team @NBCNews. Views own, links/RTs not endorsements. Melodramatic Scotsman. 256,287 followers | Follow
Vincent Moss
Sunday Mirror political editor and sometime broadcaster. My views etc..5,782 followers | Follow
LSE press office
News and research via the London School of Economics and Political Science press office5,456 followers | Follow
Kenneth Li
Editor, Reuters.com. Not the IT guy. Views expressed here are my own. kenneth.li@thomsonreuters.com5,450 followers | Follow
Isabel Oakeshott
Political Editor of The Sunday Times; panellist on BBC Sunday Politics; Political Journalist of the Year5,319 followers | Follow
Kirsty Walker
Daily Mail political correspondent, musician and mother (although not necessarily in that order) Views my own.4,783 followers | Follow
Electoral Reform Soc
The Electoral Reform Society is an independent campaigning organisation working to build a better democracy by putting voters at the heart of British politics4,129 followers | Follow
Mirror Politics
Follow the news from Westminster with the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Mirror.co.uk4,106 followers | Follow
Craig Woodhouse
Evening Standard political correspondent, tweeting in personal capacity.2,881 followers | Follow
Politics BBC Radio 4
Tweeting information about guests and content on our daily, weekly and one off political programmes on BBC Radio 42,595 followers | Follow
University Alliance
Official account for University Alliance - the voice of the UK's leading business-engaged universities, driving innovation, enterprise and growth2,492 followers | Follow
Matthew Elliott
Chief Executive, TaxPayers' Alliance (@the_tpa) & Big Brother Watch (@bbw1984)2,393 followers | Follow
Fishburn Hedges
We help leading organisations promote and defend corporate reputations, in an uncertain world. Curated by @jenprout & @bnfx2,236 followers | Follow
Emma Vardy
Political Reporter for BBC Oxford & the Sunday Politics. Tweeting about our MPs, Councils and all sorts in between, Send me your questions, comments & stories.671 followers | Follow
James Rothwell
Editor at The Oxford Student, English and French student at Wadham College, does not tweet about rowing438 followers | Follow
YouGov Research
At YouGov, we leverage our online sampling and research expertise to conduct polls, and deliver insights and analysis.345 followers | Follow
Penny Ayres
Jon Snow's Interview Producer for Channel 4 News. Fan of politics, rugby (as an avid spectator), chocolate, shoes and white wine. All tweets my own views.283 followers | Follow
Matt Falloon
Reuters UK Politics and Economics correspondent, based in London. Any opinions expressed are occasionally my own.228 followers | Follow
Clinch Media
David Clinch. Media and Social Media Strategy Consultant. CNN Journalist.145 followers | Follow
