Twitterrific

I signed up to use Twitter exactly a year ago but was disappointed to learn that I had not much use for it since none of my friends were on it. As you know, Twitter is a social-networking and micro-blogging site which enables users to send status updates in the form of text-based posts limited to a maximum of 140 characters. It's like facebook but its sole service would be to provide only your status updates to your friends. No photos. No virtual teddy bears to give away as gifts. No game apps. No Superpoking by way of flying thongs flung by your compeer.

After creating my Twitter account, I was frankly mystified as to what I should do next. I considered typing in a zesty bon mot onto the What are you doing? box but I had no one following me and so it'll be a useless gesture with not a soul to read it. And so I just forgot about the site and relegated it to the the barren wastland of forgotten usernames and passwords in the company of my login details for Hotmail, Yahoo, Muliply, and Flickr.

However last month, I received an admin email message from Twitter saying that my friend Ogster was following me on the site. I decided to log in again after a year and, wow, a lot has changed in Twitter since then -- big changes, no, Obamaesque changes. Well, it's true that I had only one follower but I then thought of becoming a follower of other Twitterers. Hmm, who would be a famous person I wanted to be kept updated on? But my mind was drawing a blank. I was watching American Idol at the time and thought what the hey? And so I did a search for Seacrest and boom! I was instantly made aware of the following insider Ryan Seacrest dish:

"My producer @NegativeNatalie ran into @AndersonCooper and he autographed a photo that read 'Ditch Ryan and come work with me.' What the heck"

Sweet, huh? I felt like I was in on an inside joke. One thing lead to another and now I have managed to track down the following celebs on Twitter and have become entangled in the minutiae of their day to day lives:

Ashton Kutcher - Last weekend he was asking for the what the best NY pizza place was in LA. He uploaded a pic of the pizza later.

Demi Moore - She's "mrskutcher" on Twitter and tweets mostly about books. I was surprised to learn how heavy she is into reading books. She's almost done with "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao."

Jimmy Fallon - He just got a Kindle and was asking what titles he should try. Someone suggested the book "Twilight." Being the nice guy he is, Fallon didn't say WTF am I? A 16-year old girl? He said he'll give it a try but won't expect to like it. Awww. Pussy.

Tina Fey - I love her and her tweets but she seems to be very busy now because Tina's been awfully quiet lately.

Rob Corddry - He used to be a Daily Show correspondent. My god, this man is funny. I'd fall down on my knees and worship at the temple of Corddry but then he'll only make a snarky remark about it.

Lance Armstrong - He flew in from LA to Paris yesterday. Lancieboy is on his way to Nice for training.

Neil Gaiman - Writer Neil Gaiman's father passed away the other day. He is currently on an airplane on his way back to London from the States.

Rainn Wilson - Wilson plays the annoying Dwight in the TV show "The Office." He is also one of the funniest guys on this planet who makes me want to give up having a future in comedy writing.

Russell Brand - He's in New York pimping his book "My Booky Wooky" on its American publication.

The above list of celebs just form a small sample of all the people on Twitter I follow. I read somewhere that Twitter is seriously being considered a threat to facebook, Google (!), and the whole of independent blogging. This maybe true or not but the fact that facebook has made attempts to buy Twitter means that Mark Zuckerburg sees its potential. And we all know that Zuckerburg's no slouch when it comes taking a tried and true formula and spit polishing it into a phenomena which seemed new and innovative.

As for me, well, I can't wait for what the next tech bandwagon I'm jumping to next -- and I'm sure you'll know all about it on my Twitter feed.