I've been looking high and low for Canadians -- individuals or institutions -- that are attracting a lot of attention on Twitter or Facebook. Jason Lamarche tipped me to a list compiled at Twitterholic but it's crap because it's missing a whole pile of Canadians (including me who, with 1,200 plus tweeps would make Twitterholic's top 200 list). (That's not Jason's fault, of course, and I appreciated him drawing my attention to it.)

So, it looks like good, old-fashioned gumshoe work will be required here to find the Canuck with the biggest social media draw. Let's limit it, for now, to Twitter and to people who use a first and last name. Here's the Top 20, with tweeps (Twitter followers) current as of Aug 10, 2009:

1. Jason Sweeney - 675,618
2. William Shatner - 104,772
3. Nathan Fillion - 101,272
4. Justin Bieber - 99,343
5. John Chow - 57,417
6. Walter Apai - 55,989
7. Pamela Anderson - 53,405
8. Sharon Hayes - 39,779
9. Scott Stratten - 36,473
10. Amber MacArthur - 33,027
11. Tara Hunt - 27,988
12. Cory Doctorow - 26,749
13. Lucy Izon - 25,574
14. Daniel Negreanu - 24,345
15. George Stroumboulopoulos - 21,452
16. Jessi Cruickshank - 19,522
17. CBC News Top Stories - 18,780
18. Prime Minister Stephen Harper - 17,312
19. Nia Vardalos - 16,432
20. Terry Allison - 15,048

Please send me info if you've got a Canadian flavoured Twitter account that break into this list.

Last updated: Aug 11/2009 at 1942 Ottawa time