Twitter Search For Celebrities

I don't read gossip rags (I don't buy the newspapers anyway, why pay good money for something I probably won't even have time to read?) but there's something about the net that makes me want to reach out to people. And since I don't have many friends (who'd blame them? I'm so boring that not only I decided to freeze breadcrumbs last Sunday night, but I also thought it a good idea - at the time - to post a tweet about it), finding out what's going on in the lives of some well-known people (sometimes also called celebrities) just gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling, like I have the power to interact with them.

Shortly after I joined Twitter (which I didn't want to join in the beginning but peer pressure - from total strangers I heard on the TV, and read about on the internet - made me do it anyway), I decided it might be fun to "follow" some celebrities. I started with Aston Kutcher, shortly followed by Demi "wifey" Moore, but soon found out that there were way more imposters on Twitter than real celebs. I am still floowing a few ones: I think that the profiles of Kevin Spacey and Hugh "yummy" Jackmann are genuine ones, but for the rest I am still very confused.

After watching Alan Carr' "Chattyman" show on TV last night (a very pale imitation of The Graham Norton Show, but if you like to watch grown-up gay comedians acting like little girls, that might be your thing. Graham, come back, I miss you!) I decided to follow him; you never know, he might get up to something funny sometime in the next 5 years!). So I added him and since I was feeling like a trader, I did a search for Graham Norton too and thought I got the right profile when I got the following message from Twitter: "Sorry, the account you were headed to has been suspended due to strange activity. Mosey along now, nothing to see here."

It's the Strange Activity that really made me think that this was indeed the right profile; imagine a little overexcited (but oh, so very funny - I just wish Alan Carr didn't try to copy him, he just doesn't come close) Irish gay man virtually jumping up and down all over Twitter doing the weirdest searches so he can bitch about them in his show: yep, that would be him all right!

Well, since I can't get him on Twitter, I'll head up to Facebook and see if there are any groups related to him; makes me think I really need to get a hobby!

Update: Graham Norton's profile (the comedian) has since been removed from Twitter but you can still catch some funny videos on his Facebook page.