TOP 10 Celebrity Twitters

Mar 24, 2009

As if there weren’t enough ways to put your business out there (or be in other people’s business) Twitter has evolved to become the hot app of the moment for celebrities and fans looking to get not so up-close but pretty personal. It’s essentially a Facebook or Blackplanet status update without the entire site. So if you can express yourself in 140 characters or less, or want to know which celeb’s dog peed on their carpet at 2am, this might be for you.

I’ve assembled a Twitter starter kit below of the more interesting celebs currently using Twitter. Click the image to add them.

1. Shaquille O’Neal: The Real Shaq
Followers: 398, 073
Updates: 957
Quote: “The first one to send me the carl lewis national anthem gets a prize“
Why follow?: Because when he is not twittering about dancing with the Jabbawockees at the All-Star Game he damn near answers EVERYbody who tweets him.

2. Snoop Dogg: SnoopDogg
Followers: 70, 846
Updates: 523
Quote: “U know who be the twizzle king…”
Why follow?: Because he customized his page to say “Twizzle” not Twitter. Gotta love the attention to detail.

3. Quest Love: QoolQuest
Followers: 45, 536
Updates: 4,555
Quote: “between blue ribbon’s chicken (sullivan) and this mac n cheese im eating i predict soul food will belong to white people in 12 years.”
Why follow?: The man’s update game is umatched and he actually has interesting things to say other than when he used the bathroom.

4. Solange Knowles

Followers: 41,459
Updates: 2,233
Quote: “Thanks twitts for being concerned:)but the truth is… ( to the source) you stuuupid idiiiiots(part 5)i no getty punched in the mouth.EVER!”
Why follow?: She’s fearless. Whether she’s passed out on a plane or in a bus crash nothing will stop her from tweeting her peeps about it.

5. Q-Tip: QTipTheAbstract
Followers: 32, 209
Updates: 1,637
Quote: “on T.V. you can prick your finger but you CANNOT finger your prick!! remember this you will go far…”
Why Follow? Q-Tip is only built for groovin’ links, as he will share many of his favorite songs, leaks and samples of Tribe classics.

6. Diddy: IAmDiddy
Followers: 252, 970
Updates: 779

Quote: “Ooooooooohhhhh GOD!……. My head! Help me! Imma try a ciroc and gatorade! I hope this works! Lol”
Why follow? He uses a lots and lots of exclamation points like hypodermic needles, infecting you with his boundless energy. Let’s go!!!!

7. MC Hammer: MCHammer
Followers: 283, 746
Upates: 2,916
Quote:“70 plus degrees !! Jumping in the 425hp (Boss Hog Dukes) Challenger and mashin’ to my nephews track meet !! Working all the way ! I GOOO!!”
Why follow? It’s nice to see that a man can see the things he’s given his life to broken and stoop to build ‘em up with worn out tools.

8. Dj Green Lantern

http://twitter.com/DJ_Greenlantern

Followers: 10,896
Updates: 535
Quote: “Can we get a Black Thought singing album already? who knew he got his Anthony Hamilton/Lou Rawls on like THAT?”
Why follow?: DJs that travel are always fun to follow cuz they have crazy updates from around the world. And anybody that has DJ’d for Nas, Emimen & Jay-Z has a lot of stories to tell.

9. Jean Grae: JeanGrae
Followers 7,032
Updates: 4,215
Quote: “Sincerely hoping that googling about bank robbery paraphenalia doesn’t get me in trouble in some way. Argh.”
Why follow? Easily the most entertainting celebrity on Twitter.

10. Charlie Murphy

Followers: 2,991
Updates: 192
Quote: “my car just burst into flames….what.the.f*ck”
Why Follow?: He doesn’t’ tweet often but it’s usually funny when he does.

BONUS: The Urban Daily
Followers: 574 and counting
Updates: 869 (what!)
Quote: “Eff all that twitterin beef…thunderin shakin the concrete”
Why Follow?: Cuz we’re following all of them and all in their business.