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How Do Celeb Twitterers Stack Up?

John Mayer, Ryan Seacrest, and Martha Stewart all have Twitter accounts -- we rate them on a scale of addictive to pointless

Addictive

Ashton Kutcher
Followers: 227,200*
Sample tweet: ''feels like a slow news day. I have to be careful not to say anything too stupid.''

Demi Moore
Followers: 64,700
Sample tweet: ''we are watching True Lies but MrK fell aleep again....put the movie on pause..oh wait his [sic] awake now hehehehe''

John Mayer
Followers: 80,300
Sample tweet: ''I just voted on People's 'Is John 
 Mayer a Keeper?' poll. I clicked ''Love Him'' but ''Lose Him'' is winning at 63%.''

Lily Allen
Followers: 53,200
Sample tweet: ''@perezhilton god, you're like so obsessed with me its embarassing [sic].''

Ryan Seacrest
Followers: 23,400
Sample tweet: ''Should I be embarrassed that
 I like the new miley song - ''the climb''? ok...back to work''

Britney Spears
Followers: 275,700
Sample tweet: ''Spending a rainy day with my boys watching movies.''

MC Hammer
Followers: 167,100
Sample tweet: ''Chicago, a little rain, a little cold..... I'm changing planes... man..
 forgot my coat !!! too much Cali Sunshine in my head !''

Martha Stewart
Followers: 35,900
Sample tweet: ''the snow is paralyzing new yorkers- they are a bunch of wimps''

Taylor Swift
Followers: 29,200
Sample tweet: ''please don't panic, I didn't cut my hair.''

Snoop Dogg
Followers: 27,700, Sample tweet: ''btw just recorded a westcoast classizzle. bout to bang this in my car''

Pointless

*Follower Totals as of March 3, 2009

Originally posted Mar 06, 2009 Published in issue #1038 Mar 13, 2009 Order article reprints
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