Twitter has been quite popular within Hollywood celebrity. It might have been due to it’s simplicity and reach to mass of people. Celebrity is a core part of entertainment and people are always excited to know about them. Twitter has provided a fantastic platform where celebrity can speak their mind of and tweet about their daily happening. Also promote their work. If you want to know what so and so celebrity are doing change the channel to Twitter, you will get to know every bit of it.

How Oprah Winfrey came to use Twitter?

Oprah Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA. She is one of America’s most influential women at current time. She has fame and wealth which she utilizes to influence the lives of people who are in need. Apart from being a successful Talk show host, she is also producer, successful actress, founder of Oprah magazine and generous philanthropist.

Oprah’s popularity in Twitter grew from the day she joined Twitter. She had not even written a single tweet and there were already 30,000 followers who were eagerly waiting for her every 140 characters’ thought. The first tweet she wrote in the Twitter was “HI TWITTERS. THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY.”

Oprah's first Tweet

Within 15 minutes of this tweet, Oprah had more than 76,000 followers and after four hours she had more than 1,250,000 followers. This statistics shows the number of people who do not want to miss a single thought of Oprah. Currently she has about 2 million followers. The use of this micro-blogging service by the celebrity like Oprah is sure to send more traffic to the site as more new people will get to know about this type of network.

Oprah is promoting Twitter in her show as well so it is considered that with Oprah in Twitter, there is more chances of growth of this network. In the Talk Show several prominent celebrities were featured including Evan Williams, the chief executive of Twitter, and the actor Ashton Kutcher who is one of the site’s most active celebrity members. This event in the media world is sure to give the expected hype to the network.