I was in the bathroom using my phone as an escape from time with my own thoughts, and I had a thought. Do any famous people follow me?
There are only two types of famous people that follow you on Twitter. Famous people that follow everyone that follows them (which is rare), and famous people that actually follow you for some weird reason.
There’s a great tool called FriendOrFollow that will help you determine if you have any famous followers.
Now, with 13k followers, it’s not like I’m going to go through each one and determine their level of fame. You can, however, sort by “verified” accounts. These are accounts that for some reason Twitter deems important. Usually celebrities who Twitter has determined are the real McCoy and not fake impersonation accounts.
So, currently the only two famous people that I can find that follow me are Fran Drescher and Larry the Cable Guy.
What’s most interesting is that I follow neither of them. Fran’s is more suspect – she has around 111k followers and follows 23k. This probably means she started out following a ton of people, and then stopped as her Twitter account began to grow. So, I’m not counting her as a real ThoughtsFromParis follower. Although if she is, I’m a huge fan. Her role in The is Spinal Tap is brilliant.
Larry the Cable Guy is a puzzling Twitter situation. Again, I am not a follower, but he follows me. His stats are thus – 125k followers, and only follows 1k. So, out of the 1k he follows, I’m in that group. Is he a fan? Did he follow me by mistake? Does he appreciate my white collar comedy?
I would assume he doesn’t read my stuff and that it’s some weird mistake. Not that I wouldn’t be super flattered if he is a fan. Hell, I’d quit my job right now to write jokes for him. He’s currently the most successful comedian in the country, I believe. I don’t know much about redneck stuff, but I’d learn. You know, trailers and meth and bad mustaches. I can dig it.
Just in case he’s reading, I’d like to audition to be on his crew. Now, I just have to come up with a blue-collar premise… Ahem…
“You know your kin can sometimes be an embarrassment? My grandma was heading to the store and I asked her to pick me up some Redman. Well, wouldn’t you dang blasted believe that granny came back with a real live Indian. I was like, “Damn, grandma, I wanted some tobacco not a Tomohawko!”
Not my finest writing. But not my worst! (okay, it’s pretty much my worst)
JenOsaurus says:
I felt that way when you started following my dead bird, @DeadBirdCooper. And then you started following my sister, @Sarahtage. But you never followed me, @Jenosaurus. So then I began to feel cheated on. I still read your blog anyway but now I feel really dirty about it.
D.J. Paris says:
@JenOsaurus You are followed (but apparently unfollowed and now followed again)!
Katjaneway says:
That is a little weird, but I’m thinking that it’s not really Larry. There are so many celeb accounts where they don’t actually tweet a damn thing, and it’s some PR rep that does it, or something. Larry is completely redneck -if he understands twitter enough to use it so effectively, then… awesome, but… really? lol Can you see him using twitter? Case in point, Alton Brown. The guy is a genius. A food science geek genius. But technology like Facebook, Google +, and twitter were (and still are) out of his scope. He’s only on Twitter because his agent pushed him until he couldn’t take it any more. I’ll admit, I think he’s having fun with it now, but it’s still not really his thing.
D.J. Paris says:
@Katjaneway Oh, totally. It’s not him. I know this. It’s his real account, but he doesn’t follow people himself.
CarrieSieffert says:
Bahahaha. When I first began to read this post I assumed a real life cable guy was following/stalking you (because really…why would I assume otherwise). I envisioned that somehow in your wayward, friend building, twitter following, blog creeping world – some psycho guy had joined the ranks and gone all Jim Carrey on your ass.I guess this is just as good.
D.J. Paris says:
@CarrieSieffert You know what – he unfollowed me. I think. I used a tool to check. Oh well. His comedy… Well…
Lyndsey Hieber says:
I guess this does not apply if you are following more than 9 people or being followed by 5? Thanks you are really awesome. I will get this amazing world I am currently living in. De-tweeting seems to be the only thing I am good at.
D.J. Paris says:
Thanks, Lyndsey. I really am awesome!
Katy says:
I only have a couple hundred followers on twitter and a couple hundred on tumblr, but that includes a few non-mutual celebrities. The only thing I can figure is that I share some followers with them so I came up in their recommendation list.
I was going to try and compare you and Larry the Cable Guy, but this comment is going so much better than my last one on your site that I am going to stop while I am ahead. This is only going to be posted ONCE, I swear.
D.J. Paris says:
Did you ever test on the site I built which shows if any famous mf’s follow you? Check it out – http://famousfollowers.me