MANILA, Philippines ? I?ve had my twitter account for some time now. I and Twitter ? it wasn?t love at first sight. Not a ?Wow!? moment, more of a ?Wha...??

I found the concept too simple, too full of yourself.

Twitter is a social microblogging site that asks you to answer a question in 140 characters max: ?What are you doing??

From this, Twitter users can follow you and put your updates on their page, like an RSS feed of your daily activities.

I didn?t find myself liking anyone enough to want to know what one ate, how bored one is, where one is, where one is going, what one will do, who one is going to do (now that I?d want to read about), 24/7.

All that changed for me, however, when celebrities started jumping on the Twitter bandwagon. Suddenly, being able to take a peek into the everyday lives of celebrities was not only appealing, it was downright intriguing.

While some sites are obviously run by a publicity team, others are refreshingly candid and too grammatically incorrect to have been done by a professional, or ghost Tweeters.

There?s something about that tiny box limiting one?s self to 140 characters that makes some of the celebs more open to sharing (even oversharing) and interacting with their followers.

A lot of fans carry on decent conversations with them, seeming to be not starstruck at all. But there are also some Tweeters who keep sending ?Hi! Greetings from the Philippines!? to their favorite celebs.

Here are some celebs I follow. I?m not even a fan of some but they sure are entertaining reads.

The Lovers

The uncontested Hollywood king and queen of Twitter, Ashton Kutcher (aplusk) and Demi Moore (mrskutcher) reign supreme in the slowly growing empire of Twittopia.

They are a sweet couple, sometimes bordering on cheesy. To declare his love for her while he was away on the set of his new film, he asked his followers to send Demi (don?t you love how Twitter puts you on a first name basis with them?) a tweet saying ?Good morning, I love you? or ?Missed you while you were sleeping? at 7:45 a.m.

Of course, she was really overwhelmed with the ?love bomb? she got that she could ?barely move.? Barf.

Sometimes their banter is funny, like when Ashton tweeted how his wife needed to pee. Minutes later, he posted a new tweet (a tweetraction?), correcting himself that ?Demi Moore does not pee, fart nor poop.? Hilarious. He?s also some prankster, uploading a photo of her white panty-clad ass bent over (French high-cut, the type Jennifer Beals wore on Flashdance), while she was steaming his suit (it?s nice to know celebs still do stuff like steaming suits).

They even guest-tweeted Bruce Willis once, during a dinner at Bruce?s place, where he agreed to answer questions from followers for 15 minutes, questions ranging from favorite ?Die Hard? movie to favorite ice cream flavor.

Both have grammar issues, (Ashton calling Tom Selleck ?layed back;? Demi often switching ?you?re? and ?your,? which is weird since she reads a lot on her Kindle). God is indeed fair.

The lion and the lamb

Twihards all over must be rejoicing over the presence of Kristen Stewart (KristenjStewart) and Rob Pattinson (theRobPattinson). Robert Pattinson is a newly ?devirginized? Tweeter with only one post to his name (a link to his MySpace), and an exponential follower growth rate (from 249 to 1,027 in two hours).

He used to steal Kristen?s phone during filming breaks on the set of ?New Moon? to send tweets from her account. She credits R-Patz for having tweeted ?I love my friends! Robert?s sexy beast!? If this were a Filipino flick (?Bagong Buwan,? not to be mistaken with the Cesar Montano film), they?d be on the hot seat between Boy and Kris, to answer questions such as ?Gaano mo kadalas iniisip si Kristen??, ?Namimiss niyo ba ang isa?t isa?? and ?Ohmygawd, ?Robert?s sexy beast.? Is that bastos?? And let?s not forget the ultimate scene Boy and Kris would ask them to act out: ?Robert, para sa mga fans, kagatin mo si Kristen sa leeg.?

The other woman

His lyrics are soulful, he?s professed to treat a woman?s body like wonderland, and yet he can?t break up like a man. After their much publicized shot on the Oscars red carpet, John Mayer (johncmayer) and Jennifer Aniston called it quits a few weeks later, amid rumors that it was Twitter and not a woman that came between them.

Mayer would always tell Jen how busy he was at work and yet his Twitter page would be filled with updates. A single text message has more characters than a tweet and he can?t even send one to his girlfriend. Sounds to me like someone was using Twitter as buffer.

After the breakup, he tweeted ?This heart didn?t come with instructions.? Too bad it didn?t come with a warranty either.
Poor Jen can?t get a lucky break. First a pouty-lipped vixen steals her hubby, and now a social networking site steals her weird choice of a boytoy. Give the girl a break.

These are just some of the colorful celebritweeters, and more and more of them are finding the idea of Twitter appealing. After all, it?s an in thing to be a celebrity Twitwhore. It?s their mini 140-character soapbox to promote causes, rant about stuff, and say whatever they want with perceived impunity. It?s addictive, like little snippets of a reality show ? without the commercial breaks.