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SeaWorld’s Shamu is on Twitter. You can follow Shamu on Twitter at @RealShamu. Shamu’s bio says “I live at SeaWorld. I’m a large, athletic, black and white marine mammal. I’m not THE star of SeaWorld, I’m A star of SeaWorld.” A real person is behind the Shamu Twitter just like a real person was behind the Mars Phoenix Twitter that was very popular last year.



When blogging starting getting more commercial several years ago there were many character blogs that emerged. Twitter seems like a much better format for character blogs because of the shorter post length and because it is easier for the character to interact with Twitter users.



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Zac Efron may be the future but he isn’t embracing social media. Zac Efron told People that he doesn’t actually want people to know what he is doing all the time.

“I don’t have a Twitter, a MySpace or a Facebook or anything like that,” says the star of the new comedy 17 Again. “I kind of value in people not knowing where I am or what I’m doing.”



To demonstrate his take on the typical posting, he says with a laugh: “I’m on the toilet. Still on the toilet. Guys, dot-dot-dot, out of TP. Still on the toilet.”

There may not be much reason for Zac Efron to be on Twitter right now since pretty much every step he makes is already covered. Other stars using social media tools like Twitter, MySpace and Facebook like the ability to get out ahead of - or repudiate - what the tabloids and blogs are reporting.



Photo: Interview magazine



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Here’s another Twitter spoof. This one comes from Slate and it is called Flutter. Updates on Flutter are called flaps and they are limited to 26 characters.

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BakerTweet is a new product from Poke that makes it easy for busy bakers to tell the world that something hot and fresh has just come out of the oven. The first BakerTweet device was installed at the Albion Cafe on Boundary Street in Shoreditch, London. You can follow Albion Cafe’s Twitter @albionsoven.



Here’s a video that shows how BakerTweet works. (via OhGizmo)

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Current’s Super News has an episode about Twitter. Glad the Fail Whale could make an appearance. Take a look:

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Twitter recently added a list of suggested users and some of the users and organizations on the list are said to be adding 10,000 followers are day. Some of these followers won’t be very useful since they are just bored newbies bulk following the entire list but overall it’s a big benefit to the people and organizations listed. The concept is very similar to the recommended feeds (bundled feeds) on services like Bloglines and Google Reader.



There has been a backlash from some Twitter users in the tech community. The argument is that the suggested users list gives certain Twitter accounts too much popularity and boosts some Twitter users that have not been using Twitter nearly as long as some users who have been on Twitter since it began. It is probably unfair to users that have been on Twitter since the beginning but Twitter’s goal was never to be just a tool for the tech community or for early adapters.



Twitter has always had every intention of going mainstream. The fact that they did not sell either to Facebook or Google is a sign that they intend to get very big, very quickly. One way to do this is to showcase some of the most popular users of Twitter. The big celebrities. The big mainstream users. The leaders in different niches. They want these users to have lots and lots of followers so they will tell others about Twitter. They want to use these big fish to lure in other big fish. They also want the mainstream media to start keeping track of these big celebrity Twitters.



It was inevitable that celebrity Twitter users like Shaq and Britney Spears would probably have ridiculous amounts of Twitter followers. By including them in the Suggested Users list Twitter is probably just fast-forwarding what would have eventually happened anyway. Twitter wanted this to happen or they never would have put so many celebrities in the list. Some of the tech blogs and niche blogs in other categories have a good argument that Twitter is being unfair by putting competiting blogs on the Suggested Users list and thereby granting them tons of followers. But it’s nothing new. Those bundled feeds put together by RSS aggregators have never really been completely fair either.



Other posts on Twitter’s Suggested Users list:

• TechCrunch: How Much Is A Suggested Slot On Twitter Worth? Jason Calacanis Offers $250,000.
  
• PaidContent: Twitter Buzz Is Worth $250,000 To Some, Harder To Quantify For Others
  
• Valleywag: Blogfather Accuses Twitter of Payola Scheme He Pioneered
  
• Download Squad: Twitter Suggested Users: problem and solution
  
• Inquisitr: Lets face it: you don’t matter
  
• Dave Winer: Why it’s time to break out of Twitter
  
• ReadWriteWeb: Twitter May Have Found Its Business Model
  

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We Follow is a new user powered Twitter directory. The site was launched by Digg founder Kevin Rose. The site is easy to use and understand. Each category on the website is a tag such as gardening, sports and knitting. Twitter users in each of the categories are ranked by the number of followers they have.



Twitter users can add themselves to the category by sending a tweet to @wefollow with the three categories they want to be including in.



Excamples of some the popular categories being used include:
blogs,
entertainment,
health,
science,
socialmedia,
food,
books,
news,
politics,
movies,
fashion,
shopping,
gadgets,
gadgets,
pets,
and business.



Some people not following the instructions (WeFollow Fail) have wound
up in the yourtag category.



WeFollow is a useful alternative to sites like Twitterholic that show only the most popular Twitter users overall. Websites like these have become dominated by celebrity twitterers as of late.



(via The Web Life)



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Twitter’s traffic has been exploding lately. Jon Stewart investigated on a recent segment as to why the mainstream media and politicians want to be on Twitter. Jon Stewart admits he has no f***ing idea how Twitter works. Samantha Bee, who likes Twitter, interrupted Jon Stewart to tweet while he was discussing Twitter. (via TheBivingsReport)

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Twitter has many uses. You can keep up with friends, you can keep up with the latest news updates and you can search Twitter to see what people are thinking about just about anything. One of the more recent Twitter trends that is emerging is celebrities using twitter. Some of the celebrity Twitterers are starting to take over the top slots on Twitterholic, a list of twitter users with the most followers that used to be dominated by technology broadcasters and bloggers.



The BBC explains why some celebrities love to Twitter in this article. Fake accounts make it difficult to ascertain whether or not a celebrity twitterer is real so a lot of people on Twitter are probably following celebrity imposters. Here’s a few places where you can find celebrity twitter accounts.

• Celebrity Twitter List - a list here on BloggersBlog.com.
  
• Celebrities on Twitter - a list of celebrity Twitter users created by Julie-Ann Amos.
  
• CelebritiesUsingTwitter.com - a directory of celebrities using Twitter.
  
• CelebrityTweet.com - posts tweets from celebrity twitterers as they happen.
  
• Guardian’s List of twittering celebrities.
  
• Mashable’s List of 25+ Twitterers.
  
• Minor Celebrities - a list from the useful Twitter Fan Wiki.
  
• Times Online - 50 most popular celebrities on Twitter.
  

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Chris O’Brien at the Mercury News has an article about how Twitter’s search tool could ultimately be a threat to Google.

Very quietly, one of Twitter’s most powerful applications has become its ability to allow people to conduct real-time searches.

In fact, the motto posted on Twitter’s search page (http://search.twitter.com) says, “See what’s happening - right now.” And many people do exactly that. During a live event or amid breaking news, a growing number of people are turning to Twitter search to follow the conversations among its users.

How much the behavior is growing is hard to say, since Twitter is privately held and doesn’t release such figures. But the company thought enough of its potential to acquire a small New York company called Summize, a group of five engineers, which had built the Twitter search technology. Summize’s site was folded into Twitter last summer.

Twitter’s acquisition of Summize last year was a good move and greatly improved Twitter. The search tool can be very useful to find out about current events or breaking news although there have been complaints about a lack of more advanced queries. It doesn’t really seem like much of a threat to Google’s main search. It seems like more of a Technorati or Google Blog Search threat. It is potentially a threat to news searchers like Google News and Yahooo News if people decide to dump those tools in favor of Twitter’s search.

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