Celebrity Twitters

American Idol faced this same problem with Twitter last year. Idol fans will be able to track the popularity of season 10 contestants based on their Twitter followers, but don't take the numbers too seriously. Last year's winner Lee Dewyze was one of the least followed Idols on Twitter at the start of the competition. Dewyze had around 800 followers to Andre W. Garcia's 2,000. The runner-up, Crystal Bowersox had just over 1,000.

So far this year, Paul McDonald is in the lead with around 2,500 followers, and wild card pick Ashthon Jones is the least popular with 296 followers. Thia Megia leads the girls with over 1,000 followers, and believe it or not, Jacob Lusk is the least followed male with just over 400 people reading his tweets.

Like I said, the number of Twitter followers isn't a clear indication of an Idol's chances at winning, and a variety of factors could play into why someone like Lusk has a low total, (number of tweets, friends and family, previous singing background), but it does offer an interesting look at a person's popularity on the show.

Here is a complete list of all the Top 13's verified Twitter accounts and their number of followers at the time of this post.

In what has to be the best Twitter feud of 2010, Chris Brown pwned former B2K singer Raz-B. It all started when Raz tweeted about the Brown-Rihanna beating incident, a week after Brown finished his mandatory 52-week-long domestic violence course.

"I'm just sittin here thinking how can n***as like [Eric Benet] and [Chris Brown] disrespect women as intelligent as Halle Berry, Rihanna."

Brown fired back with what some people are calling "homophobic" tweets, "Grow up nigga!!! Dick in da booty ass lil boy! Tell me this @razb2k!! Why when the money was coming in u won't complaining about getting butplugged! #homothug!!!"

The comments are in reference to allegations that Raz made about his ex-manager, and fellow singer Marques Houston, sexually molesting him in the past.

Brown then published a photoshopped picture (above) of Raz dressed as Peter Pan on TwitPic, followed by a tweet that read, "I was minding my damn business and Peter pan decides to pop off!!!" "I'm not mad though!!! I'm just not silent nor am i one of these scary R&B cats," Brown continued. "I'm not homophobic! He's just disrespectful!!!"

And it gets better!!! Chris Brown unleashed a flurry of comments attacking Raz' career and rape allegations. Here are Brown's uncensored and hilarious tweets directed @ Raz-B: Bonus points for the Different Strokes reference!  read more »

Don't screw with the Bieber! Or his friends.

Kevin Kristopik of Oakland learned the hard way after Justin Bieber tweeted his phone number as a prank.

See Bieber's revenge tweet.

The 15-year-old was forced to delete his Twitter account and change his phone number after receiving an estimated 26,000 text messages from Bieber fans -- who thought a phone number tweeted on the singers' verified account belonged to Bieber.

Earlier this summer, Kirstopik admitted hacking the Twitter account of Justin's friend Ryan Butler. Bieber sought revenge by tricking his 4.5 million followers into calling and texting Kevin. The teen sarcastically thanked Bieber on Twitter before removing his account. He then uploaded a video on YouTube showing his iPhone receiving all the messages.

Bieber did delete the tweet, but not before it was archived on several celebrity Twitter tracking services.

Conan O'Brien did what every good unemployed person should do... Join Twitter! Being jobless can get boring without the interwebs, and Twitter is a great place to kill time and brain cells. Let me be the first to say "Welcome to the club!"

With 268,316 followers already, the ex-late night host only made one tweet so far... a plea for help.

"Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial. Somebody help me."

If I were O'Brien I wouldn't worry about interviewing small animals. It is only time to push the panic button when you start drinking at 9am, or start visiting 4chan or visiting 4chan at 9am while already drunk!

O'Brien has been laying low since his last show aired on January 22, and he cannot return to work as a host, until September 1, 2010. He received a $45 million payout for giving the Tonight Show back to Jay Leno who returns on March 1.

My advice would be; enjoy your time off, check out Pornhub and spend some of that money!

Follow Conan on Twitter  read more »

After rumors back in January that American Idol hopeful, Michael "Big Mike" Lynche, was kicked off the show for Tweeting early about making the Top 24, Ryan Seacrest announced on his Twitter account, that "contestants will have MySpace, Twitter, and Facebook pages" while on the show.

Click here for a complete list of the Top 24 Idol contestants' Twitter accounts

While it sounds fun to be able to follow Idol contestants on social websites, it does raise the question if it will tip off America about who is more popular... And perhaps who is in the lead to win, or possibly go home. Even before one live show has been aired, contestant Tyler Grady has 450 followers, and Casey James only 127. Does this mean the 70s rocker wannabe has an early advantage?

Contestant Paige Miles -- who got very little airtime -- has only 54 followers, while Crystal "Needs a Toothbrush" Bowersox" has 134, Lacey Brown (she lost out to the annoying Megan Joy last season) has 303 followers and Katie Stevens (grandmother has Alzheimer's) has 276 followers.

We all know strange things can happen on Idol, but allowing the Top 24 to tweet and socialize on Facebook (MySpace really? Does anyone even use it anymore?) should make for an interesting season 9. So Idol fans make sure you show your support (or hate) for this season's Top 24 by following you favorite Idol on Twitter.  read more »

http://twitter.com/KIRSTIEalley  read more »

http://twitter.com/MillaJovovich

http://twitter.com/LeviJohnston05/

http://twitter.com/ADAMLAMBERT

http://twitter.com/officialTila