When news broke last week that Nick Offerman joined Twitter my immediate reaction was: “I’ll totally follow Nick Offerman. Love that guy. And I bet he’ll tweet like twice a week, max.”
I didn’t consciously realize it until that moment but I have a two part “Should I follow a celebrity on Twitter?” litmus test. A) Do I like that person enough for people to know I follow them? B) Do I think they’ll tweet a lot?
Wanting to avoid actually reading someone’s thoughts isn’t exactly a compelling argument for following them on Twitter. Maybe I’m on my own here (because I secretly hate Twitter) but when you stop and think about it, is any celebrity truly worth following? Do you get anything out of it? Most comedians I love rarely bring their A game. And even Kate Upton stopped blasting out party photos.
So how about we open things up for discussion? Turn this post into a sort of UPROXX public service, tapping into our collective experiences to figure out which celebrities, if any, are really worth the follow. I know I’ll take all the suggestions I can get. My “unfollow” history is like the trail of tears.
And for the sake of setting some boundaries let’s say the person in question has to be a non-journalist with a check by their name. Cool?
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Chrissy Teigen (although I’m sure to have butchered her name). The girl that’s dating John Legend. She tweets a lot, is funny and posts some pretty funny/sexy pics.
She tweets a bit much for me, but agree she’s funny. And I approve her profile pic. [twitter.com]
I was just thinking recently how’d I might actually follow Olivia Wilde on Twitter if she weren’t famous. She’s pretty funny, posts quality links now and then and, most importantly, she retweeted me once.
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How did I not know she’s on Twitter. FOLLOWED.
And relevant…
Patton Oswalt is worth following, if only because of shit like that Oscar Snub FanFic he wrote the day the nominations were announced. I know some branch of Uproxx covered it.
Yeah, Vince was all over that one. [filmdrunk.uproxx.com]
Arian Foster is generally smart and funny, as is Evan Mathis if a journeyman LG counts as a celebrity.
Ah yes, I second this — the thinking man’s favorite athlete on Twitter.
I’m not on twitter but my wife is and she follows Rainn Wilson. She says she is pretty funny but then again she doesn’t like the same things i do…
A few off the top of my head: NPH, Felicia Day, Simon Pegg, George Takei, and pretty much everyone on Community.
Seconded on the ‘Community’ cast. They’re pretty much the exception to the rule (although D Glover could calm down the frequency a bit).
I like most of the folks mentioned, I also like Jenny Wade. She was on The Good Guys. Makes me chuckle.
Now following Jenny Wade as she describes herself as both salty and peachy. [twitter.com]
Rob Delaney is consistently excellent, as is Jenny Johnson.
I kind of have a Ben Wyatt-Lil Sebastian thing going with Rob Delaney. [twitter.com]
But did anyone know who either of them was before Twitter? Rob was kind of an obscure comedian who used Twitter brilliantly to increase his profile, and isn’t Jenny Johnson just a random funny lady living in Dallas?
They do meet the loose criteria laid out above, but they do go against the spirit of what I was going for. Like, what the hell does Debra Messing have to say to 23K+ people? [twitter.com]
I feel like I’ve been force fed folks like Rob Delaney since I joined Twitter a year ago and I don’t like it.
Why don’t you have your cake and eat it too (at least with respect to criterion A) – get the celeb’s tweets in an rss feed. You can follow them without anyone knowing. (It would preclude you from tweeting them retweeting their tweets, but that seems like a minor loss).
Steve Carell only started a couple weeks ago, and isn’t very prolific, but he’s been damn funny so far. Adam Savage posts some pretty cool shit. Other favorites: Joel McHale (and anyone else on Community), Carrie Brownstein, Conan, Aisha Tyler, Mindy Kaling, Bryan Cranston (another “quality over quantity” one), and Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Harris Wittels’ Humblebrag makes me happy.
Josh Groban is actually really funny. He’s kind of kooky and self-deprecating without trying too hard. Also, I’ve learned about a lot of cool lesser-known musicians and musical performances through his feed.