Tuesday, February 3

Twittering Celebrities

The Times publishes a fair random list today of the top 50 Twittering celebrities. All very well, we like Twittering ourselves, but we do have a question...

It's all very well Lance Armstrong telling us about his weekend with a houseful of kids, but if Ordinary Joe was to try and carry on the conversation at an airport, in a bar, restaurant etc., how keen would Lance be to get all close up and personal then?

Not very, we think. Armstrong may have more than 53,000 'followers,' but what if they all turn up at Alpe d'Huez in July?

Besides, how long will these celebrities keep it up? Can we expect Armstrong to be Twittering as he climbs the Alps?

"Valverde's looking strong, hope he doesn't attack..."