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Celebrities do not share any news. They are the news. Your and mine tweets are much more valuable than PriyankaChopra’s or BritneySpears; but our voice and presence do not have the value these celebs enjoy.

Guy Kawasaki says his tweets are of highest value in the whole Twittersphere. He stumbles around the clock to find interesting stories and make three other smart folks to do it. They follow up the good articles with write in Holy Kaw in Alltop, and share it in Twitter. He compares with Mashable and TechCrunch, and says — their tweets are valuable but they tweet only from their site. Guy tweets best stories chosen from the entire web. Guy follows most of his followers, but he frankly says that he reads only tweets that contain ‘@guykawasaki’.

I am least worried about if someone actually read my tweets. But I do follow and read updates of many tweeple. Twitter’s recently introduced feature of Twitter List is proving to be boon for people like me. Now I follow few twitter lists with celebrities, and not follow them directly. I better follow general people like me, and read their tweet and chat with them. I follow almost all non-spammers and non-bots from people who follow me. Mainly the followback for enabling people to send me Direct Messages.

10 Reasons to un-follow celebrities

1. Use Twitter List Instead

Make Twitter Lists of celebrities and visit the List when you feel like reading their updates.

2. Save Time and TimeLine

There are thousand of celebs around, and they are from various areas — music, tech, movies etc. If one follow many of them, he is just lost in their updates. These updates are just the daily life gossips, and it does not add any value. Better is to keep the timeline clean and follow a Celeb List.

3. Better Managed Time Line with Twitter List

If you are in a good mood to read celebrity gossip from HollyWood or Bollywood, you need a Twitter List. If you try searching in your timeline, you gonna lose too much time. If you go and visit the profiles, that’s a bigger NO. So actually following celebs has no practical value if mixed with lot of other folks.

4. They anyway Don’t Follow You or Listen to What You Say

Social Media is a two way phenomena. And Celebs hardly use it that way; they simply throw their updates and go away. So why do we follow them continuously? They are just like TV channels, and its better we keep them at lower priority. They should be categorized and followed when want to; rest of the time Twitter should serve other purposes like marketing, gossip with friends, sending news updates to friends and get from them etc.

5. Celebs use Ghosts

Worst of all, many celebrities whom we follow use ghost behind them. They are neither interested in Twitter not tweet themselves. It is as good as watching a TV program on celebs; motive solved is just to remain updated on what celebs are doing. It is not actually the celebs spending their time to update us. Sad, but true.

Ending Thoughts

Now Twitter has matured and we should mature as well. We should follow people based on interest, location, business etc and enjoy it. If we are open marketer, its fine to follow mass. But it is actually bad to spam; marketing is fine but too much marketing not bad — its the Worst.

I have noticed for last few months that Twitter ID is a brand, and we need to have good strategy to build and use it. Mashable is one such case who has done wonders with Twitter. GuyKawasaki is the other man who use Twitter effectively.

As Guy says, life is a bitch. Life really is. People are free to unfollow, block  or spam a user. But do justice with your account.