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Kung-fu tweeting Carl Douglas wins El Reg prize - with expert timing

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Mr Carl Douglas - the computer scientist from Blighty's Lincoln, not the Kung-fu Fighting pop star - was fast as lightning to become @regvulture's 10,000th follower on Twitter.

Winner: Carl Douglas

As promised, he gets a mention in these pages after achieving such an ENORMO feat with expert timing. He now stands – or perhaps perches – on the shoulders of tech giants such as Bill Gates, Larry Page and, er, Paris Hilton, who are a little bit frightening.

Many of you jumped at the chance of getting your name in the pages of El Reg. Indeed there ended up being something of a crowd swell immediately after we set you, our dear readers, the challenge of becoming our 10,000th reader following our @regvulture account on Twitter.

After a completely unscientific headcount of who landed on that sweet spot, Douglas came out on top. The numbers have been checked and verified and our man from Lincoln now gets his moment in The Sun El Reg.

Our cockles were also gently warmed by just how many boxes Carl ticks on the all-important Vulture reader-ometer.

As his Twitter account explains, Douglas is a computer scientist [tick], a pedant [tick] and a professional procrastinator [tick].

Today, he's probably the happiest El Reg fan on the history of the known planet interweb2.0ulator.

Carl Douglas, we salute you. ®

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I don't really grok being a Twit. I don't pant in expectation of Stephen Fry's latest small but perfectly formed utterance, nor do I have to know immediately what puddle of poo Ed Miliband has now stepped in.

El Reg's website, having the luxury of more than 140 characters to express itself, is far better at sating my need for nerdful enjoyment, accompanied by that stimulating insertion of the well-honed double entendre.

Paris? The defining example!

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10000 isn't even a proper number.

Should by rights have commemorated the 8192nd customer, (or whatever the hell you're on about).

Next stop 16384th, okay?

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One or all?

The upside is that by following all Register Twitter accounts you get all the news at least twice. The downside is that you do get the news at least twice.

(Oh boy! All that explaining made me thirsty...)

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