User had attracted over 2,000 followers within minutes of setting up the account and by 10 am on Monday this had risen to 26,000.
Among the celebrities named was Jemima Khan, who has already issued vehement denials about using a super-injunction to prevent publication of nude photo's of her and the TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson.
Her first tweet at the weekend ran: "OMG - Rumour that I have a super injunction preventing publication of "intimate" photos of me and Jeremy Clarkson. NOT TRUE!"
Then: "I have no super injunction and I had dinner with Jeremy and his wife last night. Twitter, Stop!" On Monday morning, she tweeted again: "I've woken up trapped in a bloody nightmare.
People are knowingly breaking a criminal law,” says Duncan Lamont, a partner at Charles Russel 'they are talking of super-injunctions so this person knows they are talking about prohibited material.
And ultimately this comes back to newspapers. One reason that the Twitter story has been so high-profile is that several newspapers - including the Mail and the Telegraph - have been campaigning against super-injunctions.
Phil Hall, former editor of the News of the World, now a media adviser says: "The whole campaign is about newspapers winning the right to publish sensational stories that sell their products.
Critics of super-injunctions have claimed they are impotent due to the leaking of information anonymously online or by websites which don't abide by British law.
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