These celebrities don’t have the sort of interest in learning the protocols of Twitter or really investing in Twitter culture — for now. Actors, for example, like Kutcher, oftentimes have a lot of downtime between projects, so it will be super-interesting to see how deeply and completely Hollywood and celebrity worldwide end up committing to Twitter.

That said, I am grateful — super grateful — that these Twelebs have brought every single morning and daytime TV-viewer on the continent onto Twitter — that might very well change the pH balance of the entire Twittosphere — only time will tell.

Will it “ruin” Twitter? No way!

However, it is interesting to scroll through a list of celebrities and seeing how few people they follow. Ellen follows 20 Twitter accounts most of which are institutions like the NYT or other celebrities. Clearly, Ellen has more than 10 real friends on Twitter but she has chosen not to follow them and not to engage in a Twitter conversation as if she was a normal person. I would be fine with celebrities not following everyone except for their closest friends and those they know offline if they at least engaged in real conversations on the service. To not do that, though, shows that they only see it as a broadcasting medium.