Neil Patrick Harris
[Celebrities]
Followers: 1.2 million
Sample tweet: "Excited for my 1st Grammys! What should I wear? I'm thinking a black tux with that metal robot headpiece will.i.am wore at the Super Bowl."
He may play overconfident on How I Met Your Mother, but Neil Patrick Harris proves he's nothing if not a nice guy on his Twitter account. The new father gets personal on his account, tweeting about parenthood, his acting projects and life in the public eye. He gives more than 1 million followers a dose of his trademark self-deprecating wit
Felicia Day
[Celebrities]
Followers: 1.8 million
Sample tweet: "Played some Dragon Age 2 today, yum. Really hard decisions on who to romance, who did you go for?"
Maybe you know Felicia Day from her stint on Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Dollhouse. Maybe you've seen her hit Web series, The Guild, or hummed along during Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Maybe you're one of her 1.8 million Twitter followers. It's no secret that as the nerd darling of Web culture, Day can be pretty much claimed by the Internet as homegrown, and her tweets keep fans up to Day — a collection of geeky quips and recommendations coming through in rapid fire.
Also under "Celebrities": Ellen DeGeneres, Taylor Swift, Ashton Kutcher
Conan O'Brien
[Comedians]
Followers: 2.7 million
Sample tweet: "I forgot to set my clock forward and ended up sleeping right through my clock-setting class."
After a tumultuous late-night war in early 2010, Conan O'Brien was left with dedicated fans but no network to call home. But when he started a Twitter account in February last year, everything changed. Opening with the tweet, "Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial. Somebody help me," O'Brien rapidly gained followers. He's used Twitter as a platform for major announcements — like his cross-country tour and move to TBS — and a way to remain in the public eye while between jobs. Now that O'Brien's show is up and running, his daily tweets keep more than 2½ million followers laughing.
Chelsea Handler
[Comedians]
Followers: 3.2 million
Sample tweet: "Im sending chuy to egypt. Everything should be fine by tomorrow"
Chelsea Handler is a compulsive oversharer, and has spun that fearlessness into three best-selling books and a late-night talk show on E!, Chelsea Lately. (Not to mention the new After Lately, a backstage look at the making of Lately.) But for 3 million fans who can't get enough of Handler's cracks on celebs, her co-stars and herself, Handler's tweets offer plenty, complete with behind-the-scenes photos of her life, her show, her stand-up tour and her dog, Chunk.
Jimmy Fallon
[Comedians]
Followers: 3.3 million
Sample tweet: "I'd breed my own dinosaur and come riding in on a baby Triceratops — complete with a bedazzled saddle. #mygagaentrance"
Saturday Night Live cast member turned late-night host Jimmy Fallon was one of the first television personalities to use Twitter to his advantage. By tweeting monologue jokes before the show airs and sharing his favorite viral videos, Fallon has created a massive online fan base, with more than 3 million Twitter followers. That's more than any other late-night host, making Fallon the Twitter king of TV comedy.
Also under "Comedians": Aziz Ansari, Mindy Kaling, Stephen Colbert
Lord Voldemort
[Fictional Character]
Followers: 827K
Sample tweet: "Lohan meets with a judge today. There's really no need for a judge & trial. Lohan is trying & I judge her. Throw her in Azkaban."
He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is just as feared on Twitter as he is in the halls of Hogwarts, but online he abandons his pursuit of Harry Potter in favor of skewering Muggle celebrities. His snakelike appearance finds its match with his biting commentary about Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber. But the question remains: Why is this all-powerful demon concerned with mere mortals? Or perhaps Voldemort is simply awaiting the day when Harry himself joins Twitter, waiting to capture his immortal soul in 140 characters.
Wil Wheaton
[Pundits and Commentators]
Followers: 1.7 million
Sample tweet: "My son and his girlfriend are currently having a lightsaber battle using apps on their Android phones. I'm such a proud geekdad right now."
As if his portrayal of Star Trek: The Next Generation's Wesley Crusher wasn't proof enough of actor Wil Wheaton's geek cred, his Web popularity index should be. From his well-read blog that has inspired multiple books on his life growing up as a geek to his status as a devoted topic on the community site Fark, Wheaton's nerd influence is widespread. His tweets are revered musings on everything from Star Trek to comics.
Also under "Pundits and Commentators": Roger Ebert
Rio Ferdinand
[Sports]
Followers: 686K
Sample tweets: "Bet you guys don't fancy playing so and so..."; "listen we fear no one,we go into a game vs anyone going for 3points home or away"
Chad Walter, a soccer nut who founded Tweeting-Athletes.com, a directory of pro athletes on Twitter, highly recommends following the Manchester United defender. Aside from his constant insights into the beautiful game — "Spurs need to do what Milan don't like and that's get the ball into [striker Peter] crouch and run off him or get it wide and cross the ball" — he isn't afraid to trash-talk opponents on or off the pitch. His latest spat came while defending referee Massimo Busacca, whose recent performance during Barcelona's 3-1 victory over Man U rivals Arsenal was widely panned.
Chris Hardwick
[Technology]
Followers: 1.4 million
Sample tweet: "I like to copy the same file to 5 different locations & have upload races with the progress bars while calling it in horse track style."
We first noticed comedian Chris Hardwick as the host of MTV's Singled Out! alongside Jenny McCarthy and, later, Carmen Electra, but these days, the professional nerd for hire is a cable-TV host presiding over the G4 Network's Web Soup as well as his own hit podcast, the Nerdist. Hardwick's Twitter feed is packed with industry news du jour mixed with his own nerd-to-nerd recommendations of things found around the Web that are sure to make you chuckle.
Also under "Technology": Robert Scoble
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