Twitter is a delightful micro-blogging platform, fast and loose—and, limited to 140 characters per post, it's the text messaging of blogging. It also reveals people to be exactly what they are, since it's addictive and there's no room for obfuscation. (Disclosure: My Twitter feed mostly reveals me to be a vain, unfunny slut.) Last month, Inside CRM listed their 50 most hated, most awkward, and most unintentionally hilarious Twitter posts. But what about the repeat offenders? What about the noisiest noise-makers in the signal? Who are the worst, most self-involved, jargon-obsessed, least-literate new media chatbots Twittering today?

10. Ryan Sholin. A graduate student at San Jose State University, Ryan is bringing weblogs to GateHouse Media. This is a noble cause! He is a good guy. And yet: "Targeted, local (heck, even hyperlocal) advertising can be a moneymaker online, but it has to be logical, sold rationally." Let your hair down, kiddo, before you don't have any!

9. Ross Mayfield. Okay, he's kind of cute. (Geek hot!) Mayfield's bio says he's an "advisor to DailyEndeavor, Dabble, Dandelife, Eventful, Lumeno.us, QuantumArt, Plazes, Slideshare and Triggit," which is a word salad of startups and Web 2.1.3 companies that may or may not do anything at all. His Twitter isn't that bad, really! And yet. Sample tweet: "Artichokes are among my favorite vegatables to introduce foreigners to. Spikey fun, with a heart." Why does he know foreigners who are not familiar with basic "vegatables"?

8. John Federico. A marketer in Silicon Alley, He makes the list solely due to his insane background image, which is a horrifying graffiti wall of the logos of terrible Web 1.98 alleged companies, which may or may not exist in the real world.

7. Jason Calacanis. Some tools are delightful. Calacanis, the blog entrepreneur and all-around fun-time guy, only makes this list because of his latest tweets: Blackbrry.spacebar.still.broked....sorry.to.everyone.:-(. Yow. DUDE. SERIOUSLY.

6. Jimbo Wales. The Wikipedia founder just isn't trying. What's the exciting inside scoop from Jimbo's life?

Going to movies with friends, yay! 07:42 PM April 05, 2008 from txt
Dinner with friends. Again. :-) 04:26 PM March 09, 2008 from web
Dinner with friends 09:23 PM March 06, 2008 from txt

Wikipedia founders: JUST LIKE US! THEY HAS DINNERS WITH FRIENDSES!

5. Joe Trippi. This is actually one of my favorites, and yet I love it in the way that I love my loose wisdom tooth. The long-time political consultant and sort-of Internet evangelist almost exclusively Twitters about: his chickens, his flight plans, feeling sick and/or tired, and, these days, almost exclusively about Mugabe. It's amazing! It's terrible! It's amazing!

4. Michael Arrington. What's to even say that hasn't been said? You know, God bless him, at least he's ambitious.

3. Charles Forman. The most self-promoting man on the Internet, who does ... something (raises money for casual online gaming sites? Runs pseudo-dating social networking sites?) also has a jaw-dropping Twitter. Guys whistle at him on the street! He has secret dinners! He believes that life is better when you're surrounded by pretty people! He goes to $1000-dinners! He sometimes must take a "moment to realize how much better i am than anyone else." He is a monstrous tool.

2. Everyone Charles Forman follows on Twitter. Surely they must be part of the problem. Although individually they seem harmless and even pleasant, they must be destroyed as spreaders of the narcissistic illness.

1. David Cushman. Cushman is the "Evangelist for the power of the network and the dominance of communities" (um, WOW) and the "Digital Development Director at Bauer Consumer Media." (Magazines there include Country Walking and Practical Fishkeeping.) Notable recent tweet: "where is the act of creation? in my head or in the typing of the words. In the sculptors head or in the object he creates?" He sent ten posts to his Twitter in the space of an hour on the afternoon (UK time) of July 9. Does he not have IM? He was also recently spanked by new media evangelist Jeff Jarvis: "@davidcushman Do your magazines pay everyone you quote? Jeesh." Meow!