Like the rest of the world, I recently joined Twitter (@davekarger if you care to follow me). And the first thing I did was decide which celebs I wanted to follow and which ones I just couldn’t take on. For instance, I immediately signed up for updates from Lance Armstrong (I love the daily reports about driving his kids to school), Fred Durst (lots of people hate him but I find him fascinating), and A Fine Frenzy (my fave up-and-coming pop-music act). But I passed on the triumvirate of A-list Tweeters, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, and John Mayer; I figure if something major happens in their Twitterverse, I’m sure I’ll read about it in the gossip magazines.
In almost all the above cases, I need to log onto Twitter to read the updates from the people I follow. There’s only one celeb, however, whose tweets are allowed access directly to my Blackberry, and that’s Ryan Seacrest, who clearly holds a special place in my heart. He’s completely underrated as American Idol‘s emcee, if you ask me. I always seek him out on on KIIS-FM when I’m in Los Angeles. And his Twitter updates are a mixture of riotous out-of-nowhere observations ("Miley’s grandma’s hair is stiff. felt it this morning") to juicy Idol tidbits ("anoop did not seem happy…the stairs and doors broke during rehearsal and set everyone back 30 mins"). Whenever I hear that little new-text-message bing, I’m like a Pavlovian puppy ready for his next fix.
What about you? Which Twitter-happy celebrities do you allow in your pocket?
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Perez Hilton i love to hate him.
Kristin Hersh and Felicia Day.
Except that Mario (Perez Hilton) no longer solely writes Perez Hilton. He now has at least 3 hired guns for ghostwriting while he concentrates on being a celebrity and making money.
Wait, regular people actually use this nonsense? I thought it was a joke for egocentric people like the ones you listed above. Wow what an utter embarrassment for our culture.
MIKA (@mikasounds)
Barney Stinson (@brocode)
Britney Spears (@britneyspears)
Brian Baumgartner (@BBBaumgartner)
Michael Phelps (@Michael_Phelps)
Barack Obama (@BarackObama)
Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling)
Rainn Wilson (@rainnwilson)
Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow)
Emeril Lagasse (@Emeril)
Tina Fey (@TinaFey)
Lady Gaga (@ladygaga)
Perez Hilton (@perezhilton)
Martha Stewart (@Martha Stewart)
Christian Siriano (@csiriano)
and OF COURSE…
@EWPopWatch!!!
rainn wilson, felicia day, amber benson, greg grunberg and brea grant.
Elizabeth Banks, Mandy Moore, Kal Penn, Diablo Cody.
If you ask me, the undisbuted king of Twitter is actually Wil Wheaton (@wilw).
I follow
Homer Simpson
Barack Obama
Stephen Colbert
Johnathon Coulton
Leo Laporte
Stephen Harper( Canadian Prime Minister)
J.J Abrams
Kevin Pereia
John Hodgman
Joel Mchale
Tina Fey
William Shatner
Jimmy Fallon
Chris Hardwick
Ellen Degeneres
Olivia Munn
Dr. Tobias Funke
Michael Phelps
Lance Armstrong
Rainn Wilson
For Alex. Sure there are a lot of celebrities obsessed with their ego on there but Twitter is much more than that. What these people post are interesting and not at all ego inflated. I would say that Twitter is much deeper than you think it is.
at first i followed all of the celebs i could find. then as twitter got more popular i took out the celebs i don’t care much about. and then later on i took out more celebs that update A LOT about useless stuff and fill up my twitter page. those that have stayed on:
john mayer (he tweeted about how to dj using itunes and quicktime)
ryan seacrest (love the behind-the-scenes info)
kathy griffin
tina fey
rainn wilson
nastia liukin
adam sandler
mindy kaling
brian baumgartner
dave matthews
jimmy fallon
EW (popwatch, annie, ausiello)
melinda doolittle
stephen colbert
and a ton of athletes (mostly soccer players and gymnasts)
Joanna Garcia and Lucy Hale. Love Priviledged! Various athletes: Shannon Miller etc..
The Stella guys’ twitters are really funny
Uh, guys? Guys? Tina Fey’s is fake.
Twitter is evil! Blogs are the way to go
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“Wait, regular people actually use this nonsense? I thought it was a joke for egocentric people like the ones you listed above. Wow what an utter embarrassment for our culture.”
If the worst thing about our culture is that people like making 140-character blog posts then we are doing really really well for ourselves.
Also, you can’t go wrong with @the_real_shaq