The recent People magazine (makes time on the elliptical at the gym go faster) lists the ten most followed people on Twitter. Quite a surprise to me, maybe even a shock.
| Celebrity | Number of Followers |
| Ashton Kutcher | 4,091,518 |
| Britney Spears | 3,942,948 |
| Ellen DeGeneres | 3,868,521 |
| Barack Obama | 2,829,240 |
| Oprah Winfrey | 2,757,922 |
| John Mayer | 2,723,642 |
| Ryan Seacrest | 2,688,172 |
| Kim Kardashian | 2,664,702 |
| Shaquille O’Neal | 2,626,098 |
| Ashley Tisdale | 2,374,478 |
All I can say is yecch! I don’t follow any of these people, although I followed Shaq when he first joined Twitter. Where are all the tech and social media people? Thanks to the controversial suggested user list, Pete Cashmore of Mashable has over 1.8M followers. But Scoble, just 107K and social media Trust Agent, Chris Brogan, 113K.
What does this all mean? I think we can definitely say, it is another indication that Twitter is today mainstream. Twitter has certainly distanced itself from its tech and social media community origins. But has it jumped the shark? Is this list and the followers behind it representative of today’s twitter? And finally, do you think it’s a good thing.
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