Twitter Goes Hollywood

Have you heard the news? Celebrities are adopting Twitter right and left these days. And no, I’m not talking about Britney, a Twitter account managed and maintained by a team of experts – I mean real, honest-to-goodness stars maintaining and updating Twitter on their very own.

Recently, the internet-savvy Ashton Kutcher introduced wife Demi Moore to Twitter. They then caused a ruckus when they tweeted about their annoying neighbor whose loud banging was disturbing their peace and quiet. Now it looks like Ashton is berating @perezhilton for not leaving his step-kids alone. Wow, this is better than TMZ!

Meanwhile, Demi Moore was busy roping gal pal Soleil Moon Frye (who I know only as “Punky Brewster”) into joining, too. Now she’s addicted.

To welcome the newcomers, Kevin Rose has been giving them shout-outs and Ev has been giving them advice…you know, advice like how to use the “@” sign to reply to people.

Ah, newbies.

What’s great about these particular Twitter accounts is that they appear to be true attempts at joining the community; they’re not PR-approved marketing vehicles tweeting only news about upcoming films or TV shows. And unlike some celebs, it’s the stars themselves who are doing the twittering. Not to mention posting photos like this one from Demi, snapping back at a paparazzi: “Say hello to your mother for me!” Or this one from Soleil of her kids. (Celeb mommy blogger?) 

Who’s next? Ah, it’s Dwight! Err, I mean Rainn Wilson, the actor who plays Dwight. Well, at least his tweet says it’s him. We’ll see.

Still, I never would have imagined: Stars. They’re just like us.