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Deposed late-night host Conan O’Brien is now tweeting.  For real.   The twitterverse previously had a fake Conan site, which has since been snuffed-out.   This one is 100% verified Conan!    You can check out the real Conan site at http://twitter.com/ConanOBrien.    Even though he has only three tweets on a four day-old account (very humerous, by the way),  Conan is has attracted nearly 400,000 followers!    Once a larger sample of tweets have been posted,  a Top Ten list will follow.   Hopefully Conan will prove to be an engaging and entertaining twitter-er.

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If you look up the word “celebrity” in the dictionary, you’d likely see a picture of Lindsay Lohan.   Only 23 years old, she seems to have been around forever – and done about everything that a celebrity can do.   I mean everything.    The actress-musician-designer-model keeps herself busy, that’s for sure.   And keeps several tabloids in business as well.

It appears that Lohan has become a rather prolific Twitter-er.   This can be good…or bad.   For her, it’s good.  Lilo can speak directly to the public, as she frequently does to quell rumors and/or misunderstandings.   On the other hand, this can be bad.   I’m sure she has publicists who are in charge controlling what information is released about her.   But they obviously don’t vet her Twitter account before she hits the “update” button.   One day Lohan is going to tweet something that she will regret.   But until then, the public can enjoy some fairly entertaining tweets at  http://twitter.com/lindsaylohan.    Here are some good examples from the past few weeks:

• tabloids are lies   –   about 23 hours ago   from web

• P.S. I’m not a tv show lol   -  7:26 PM Feb 1st   from UberTwitter

• http://twitpic.com/10l6bn – just sharing some of the things i saw in India… maybe it can inspire us all to help those that need it around    -  7:02 PM Jan 30th   from TwitPic

• http://twitpic.com/10l0g5 – a peek at my favourite hobby, other than writing, designing and tweeting lol   -  6:34 PM Jan 30th   from TwitPic

• @Jack_Mikels  i don’t have a bf lol -is this the latest rumor? news to me, as usual lol    -  6:23 PM Jan 30th   from web  in reply to Jack_Mikels

• @melodyofdreams  i love Galliano… i just ordered most of the collection from Paris fashion week   -  6:04 PM Jan 30th   from web  in reply to melodyofdreams

• @sophmbrown  i loooooove shopping… my sister makes fun of me and says i am life confessions of a shopaholic lol   –   5:59 PM Jan 30th   from web  in reply to sophmbrown

• OMG IT’S HAILING IN LA!!  WHAT IS GOING ON! weird!!!!   -  9:34 PM Jan 21st   from web

• @jessicaalba RT @RedHourBen: NEW ONE: Text SAVE to 20222 to donate 10 dollars to Save The Children direct aid in Haiti  -  8:56 PM Jan 14th from UberTwitter Retweeted by lindsaylohan and 88 others

• P.S. Clarifying- I’m NOT THE DRIVER!!!!! Geez, people and asusmptions! I’m the passenger darlings xo   -  5:57 AM Jan 6th   from UberTwitter

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Danica Patrick is a race car driver.  She’s also a brand name (see shirt in photo above).  Since entering Indy car racing a few years ago, she has won one race and finished in the top ten of the Indy 500.   These are great accomplishments.   One question that seems to surround her, though, is whether Danica is a racer who happens to model and promote products, or is she a model who happens to race.   In other words, is she “just another pretty face,” or is she a real racer?  Now that Danica is entering the world of Nascar beginning this week, we should get a better answer to that question.   Of course, time will tell.  Danica will run some ARCA and Nationwide series races this year and the racing world will be watching intently to see how she does in each race.   As a Nascar fan myself, I hope she does well.   It would be good for the sport.

Two things I like about following well-known people are: 1. getting a glimpse about their life away from their chosen profession; and 2. getting the inside scoop regarding their chosen profession.   I want to know the person better so I can relate to them on a human level, and I want to hear interesting tidbits about their work that I won’t get anywhere else.   I like to read their take on an event they were a part of, direct from the source.   On Danica’s Twitter page, you get a fair amount of her personal life, which is fine.  But not as much “inside scoop” on her racing life as I would like.   Perhaps that will change as the 2010 racing season unfolds.   Plenty of people will weigh in on how they think she’s doing in Nascar-type cars.   I want to know how she thinks she’s doing, and whether she’s encouraged, frustrated, excited, or whatever.

Here are her best tweets from the end of last year’s racing season to just before the beginning of this one:

• Its race time people! I cant believe it is already here.  -  10:17 AM Feb 1st   from web

• http://twitpic.com/zuwvi Last night I gave my makeup brushes a home with this (homemade) roll up case!   – 10:26 AM Jan 26th   from web

• The sun shines again in az! I am picking a font for my name on my perfume bottle and box, where should I look?  -  12:20 PM Jan 23rd   from web

• I bought about 30 yards of fabric to start playing with…..well 10 of those yards is for a curtain. Am I a geek? Wait dont answer that.   -  4:12 PM Jan 16th   from web

• Obviously since I got a sewing machine(its a Project runway limited edition one too) I am totally excited about the start of project runway!   -  11:35 AM Jan 13th   from web

• Well I can finally say I have really run a stock car and that I enjoyed it even more that I thought I would! This is going to be a fun year!  –   11:13 PM Dec 20th, 2009   from web

• a yearly tradition- an amazing bottle of 03 pride reserve cab and pizza as we decorate the tree…..then dexter later!!!!   –   7:18 PM Dec 13th, 2009   from TinyTwitter

• Wow ESPN was all over me yesterday! I guess thats a good thing… thanks for all your support!   -  8:35 AM Nov 5th, 2009   from web

• @mw55 OK, this is tweet business is sucking me in and I was going to go to bed. I am really going this time! Thanks for being funny!   –   11:36 PM Oct 13th, 2009   from web  in reply to mw55

• So the season is over! Glad Dan taking me out in the pits didnt hurt my championship standing. I guess I am pleased with it overall.    -  11:44 AM Oct 13th, 2009   from web

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Oprah is a brand name.   Rarely do people become brand names.   She and her media empire has.   It just makes sense that Oprah would enter the Twitterverse at some point.  In April of this year, Oprah began tweeting.   Although I would not characterize her as a prolific twitter-er, there are some benefits to following her on twitter.   For example, she tweeted this recently before her big announcement about ending her daytime show: ”Big Day….tune in my tweet friends.”   She’s not Shaq in turns of providing humor and insight into her life, but she’s not completely boring like Barbara Walters either.   You can follow her at: http://twitter.com/Oprah.    Here’s the best of the limited tweets of Oprah so far:

• HI TWITTERS . THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY .   -  7:11 AM Apr 17th
• I pulled the Columbine show today-After reviewing, thought it focused too much on killers-hold a thought for the families, hard day for them   – 5:07 AM Apr 20th
• going on the air right now -  7:00 AM   /  Apr 24th no i’m not wearing a weave   -  7:10 AM Apr 24th
• was cruisin with the top down this weekend in sunny Cal singin’ along with SEAL..”I Can’t Stand the RAINNNN” missed my turn.   -  5:33 PM Apr 29th
• The fire moved up the mountain burning grassland. Praying the winds don’t change.   – 6:15 AM May 9th
• Great day at Duke. Love North Carolina. My godson got 2 degrees. Psych and Chinese. Headed to Maya’s for dinner.   – 3:39 PM May 10th
• A reminder: BUYER BEWARE: I have NOTHING to do with acai berry scams on internet. Have tasted only ONE time on my show.   -  2:43 PM May 29th
• Today went to see Phylicia Rashad in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY. It too was outstanding. Makes me crave BROADWAY!!    -  4:21 PM Jun 6th
• Woke up. got dressed & thought about every one of the 2970 who did the same 8 yrs ago. Let’s have a tweet of silence to remember them all   -  12:19 PM Sep 11th
• Interviewed One Day at a Time’s Mackenzie Phillips. Thought I’d heard it all…beyond shocking! We’re airing it Wednesday.   -  12:56 PM Sep 22nd

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Omar is well known for his role on the series “House.”   What makes a great Twitter-er?  A person that gives you a good sense of who they are and what they like – without being a phony.   This is what you get from Omar.  He tweets about his favorite sports teams, quotes that inspire him, people who influence him, and more.   Another thing I like about Omar is when he tweets the beginning of a thought and lets his followers come up with the rest.  Nice touch.   You can follow Omar at http://twitter.com/omarepps.   Here’s some examples of what I mean:

• Settling in for game 1… Crazy as it may be, Yanks are the only sports team from my hometown that I’ve ever liked.   -7:23 PM Oct 28th
• Dear Coach Cable, Jemarcus needs to be… (Raiders fans fill in the rest)   -6:04 PM Oct 25th
• “Don’t pay any attention to the critics, don’t even ignore them” -Samuel Goldwyn   -11:30 AM Oct 22nd
• BTW Joking or hoaxing about someone’s (anyone not just a celebrity) death isn’t at all funny or entertaining!   -12:59 PM Oct 21st
• Prunes & dates get a bad rap    -5:01 PM Oct 12th
• Dear RIM/Blackberry, Thanks for letting me know after the fact that I’m basically a guinea pig for your programmers! Sincerely, O. Epps   -6:31 PM Oct 11th
• Does “The First 48″ deter people from committing heinous crimes or does it teach them how to get away with the unthinkable?   -9:03 PM Oct 8th
• Just wanted to send a hearty salute out to all the righteous doctors, nurses & everyone in the medical community.   -12:32 AM Oct 8th
• Crickets are trying to invade my house (weird). Wish I still had my tarantula…   -8:30 PM Oct 3rd
• Dear Jerry, Shutup & own the team! Hire a GM! No play off wins (in 12 yrs) since you’ve been the GM! PS-Nice stadium! Sincerely, O. Epps   -10:02 PM Sep 28th