Bizarrely the paper seemed to select the most well-known users and forget about the figures in their 'UK Top Five'. If Metro's table last week was bad, this was absolutely awful. Jonathan Ross made it to number five in the Standard's column with 418,112 followers, despite there being six twitterers with more than a million followers in Friday's Metro table, and they had missed at least one.

The Standard failed to include technology blogger Pete Cashmore (1,517,687 followers), Samantha Ronson (1,142,233), author Neil Gaiman (1,112,288), Imogen Heap (1,092,608), and BBC Five Live's Richard Bacon (1,051,131) who was also absent from the Metro list. The only logic I can think of is that some of them now spend time in the US.

The errors were not confined to the fact box with the article referring to Sarah Brown as Britain's third biggest Twitterer, strange as she currently has 779,367 followers, putting her at most in eighth position. The paper's Science and Technology Correspondent wrote, "In fact, only the celebrity juggernauts of Coldplay and Lily Allen come between her [Sarah Brown] and the title of Britain's biggest Twitterer."

The ever-changing world of technology can be difficult to report because of its very nature. However if a paper is to have any authority in its reporting and analysis of social networking it needs to get the basic facts right.

The Standard's headline was 'Masters of the Twitterverse', ironic in more ways than one.

The story of the rise of Sarah Brown is certainly an interesting one; the last year has seen her public profile completely transformed, and most commentators, including her predecessor Cherie Blair, have praised the way she has dealt with the press. The use of Twitter by political parties is also of interest particularly following Barack Obama’s successful use of social media and as Britain heads closer to an election. It is especially important for Labour as experts say that at least in this field they are currently ahead of the Tories. However, a story that combines these two elements should not forget the facts. For now at least Sarah Brown is not Britain’s highest profile Twitter user.

As to where she stands in the league table of British Twitter users it seems we still do not know. On Friday Metro produced a Top 10 list that placed Sarah Brown at number 7, but that too was flawed omitting BBC Five Live’s Richard Bacon who has over a million followers, so who knows where she really stands.