If you sold out and got a Twitter, say "Tweet Tweet!"

Tweet Tweet.

Yes, my fellow readers - I, The Other Jaded Journalist, decided to make a Twitter account for this blog. And myself.

"Hypocrite!" you may shout. "You said you hated Twitter in that one post that gained the most comments of any of your posts! How can you become a member of that which you despise?"

Quite easily, actually.

Here's the story: one night, I decided to venture onto Twitter and view celebrity tweets. As a lover of all things celebrity/entertainment news, I was delighted at what I found - real celebrities schmoozing with each other! I clicked on all of Ryan Seacrest's friends and found myself in a world of Hollywood glitter.

But then, Lisa had to break my bubble. Little known fact - a good amount of celebs don't use Twitter; they have ghostwriters post stuff they would probably post if they did. And another - celebs can pay people to make fake accounts to follow them, so it looks like they're popular.

How messed up is that? I know, I know, it's Hollywood, people are fake. But as Shaq said (who is the sole author for his account) in a New York Times article, "It’s 140 characters. It’s so few characters. If you need a ghostwriter for that, I feel sorry for you.”

Now, for the 5 things I've discovered that make Twitter enjoyable:

1) hashtags - these became incredibly useful for those following the twitter coverage during the Iran election. Basically, it's like google search on Twitter, using key words like AOL used to, for any topic that's currently "hot." For instance, #samoa and was a big one yesterday, with the earthquake and tsunami that devastated its people. Today, #Congratulations Rio is big because Rio De Janiero was chosen as host for the 2016 Olympics.

The only problem with hashtags is that people who want their tweets to be read will add the word to their tweet. So usually you have to search through a bunch of tweets that have nothing to do with the topic. Where's the moderator on this problem, I wonder?

2) accounts by comedians/media - Twitter is a great place to try out new bits for these witty folk. Check out Dane Cook, Steven Colbert and Chelsea Lately on my "following" list for them.

3) fan fiction accounts - the other day, "The Office Copier" added me to his following list.He (or she) tweets what a copier may think. Mad Men characters are all the rage, along with Harry Potter, Glee and The Office.

4) Twitterature - yes, some lucky English majors got a chance to rewrite several literary works into 140 character blips. What's disappointing to me, though, is the rule isn't one tweet per work, more like "as many tweets as necessary to capture the main points." Guess it's better than Cliff's notes.

5) Like People magazine, it allows me to combine my two loves - following celeb fodder AND current news. Plus, y'all get to see my random thoughts :)

As much as I'm addicted to Facebook, Twitter is fun to play with.

Now comment! Tell me what you think, my reader bebes!