The Twitterization of Celebrities

I'm not a celebrity groupie, although I do love me a good edition of People magazine. I've also been known to frequent sites like Jezebel.com.  But, the whole "celebrities twittering" thing is fascinating to me. 

Somehow I found my way to John Mayer's twitter page (looking up what Pedamundo was - saw it as a trending topic today on search.twitter.com). While on his page, I noticed he was tweeting with Josh Groban, who when I checked out his page saw he was trading tweets with Katy Perry (her other tweet pals weren't so quite so bizarre ... Lady GaGa, Dita Von Teese, Sarah Silverman and one of my favorite new artists who I once had the pleasure of hanging out with one weekend before I even knew who he was ... MIKA).

Now, assuming they are all "real" tweeters ... it was kind of amusing to see who knows who and who hangs out together.  Adding to the amusement factor was that some of their complaints were quite pedestrian (tired fingers from tweeting, poor cell phone coverage, missed flights).  I actually found these humdrum type of tweets from celebrities/artists quite refreshing. 

I'm wondering ... if we get to see celebrities as real people, will some of the "celebrity worship" start to go away?  Now, wouldn't that be a great thing for society?!

While we're on the celebrity topic:  Kudos to Stephen Colbert for his USO tour.  Just brilliant.