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"The novelty of realising that your favourites are on Twitter has long since worn off. It&amp;#039;s no longer that exciting to check in on their 140-character musings or take a voyeuristic glimpse into their daily lives via Instagram, because we&amp;#039;re at a point now where &amp;quot;celebrity Twitter reactions&amp;quot; are news in themselves.  What all this means is that it&amp;#039;s time to separate the wheat from the chaff. Nobody wants to be that person who follows every single Twitter account with a Verified tick, particularly when celebrity status is no guarantee of an entertaining online persona.  So which celebrities have got followers purely because they are who they are, and who&amp;#039;s got them because they&amp;#039;re genuinely amazing on social media? Below, Digital Spy lists 10 of the people whose updates are really worth following.  1. James Blunt The very definition of an unexpected Twitter joy. James Blunt, widely disliked yet consistently successful falsetto, has engineered something close to a comeback over the past several months by being a straight-up social media legend.  His strategy is simple, but effective \u00E2\u20AC\u201C\u00C2\u00A0one of his many haters sends him vitriol, and he retweets it along with a deadpan (and often filthy) comeback. We&amp;#039;d say he&amp;#039;s giving the trolls a taste of their own medicine, but what he&amp;#039;s doing is too brilliantly nonchalant to even class in those terms. Whatever you think of his music, Blunt&amp;#039;s Twitter is unmissable.  You sound hopeful. RT @TorrieVogt: @JamesBlunt word on the street is you&amp;#039;re gay \u00E2\u20AC\u201D James Blunt (@JamesBlunt) June 3, 2014 2. Hugh Laurie Never meet your heroes, and never follow a national treasure on Twitter. It seems almost impossible that Hugh Laurie could live up to our expectations in tweet-form, and yet his feed is everything you hope and more \u00E2\u20AC\u201C\u00C2\u00A0nuggets of witty, wise, elegant prose infused with irony and a healthy dose of the surreal, so distinctive that you can hear every word in Laurie&amp;#039;s voice.  Whether he&amp;#039;s half-heartedly playing the publicity game, offering up his impressions of US tour audiences or expressing his love for home, Laurie seems incapable of producing a less-than-perfect tweet.  There was a screwdriver on the table in the ward room. I said &amp;quot;this is not a drill&amp;quot;. One crew member smiled politely. \u00E2\u20AC\u201D Hugh Laurie (@hughlaurie) March 1, 2014 3. Taylor Swift Taylor Swift&amp;#039;s Instagram is, in a word, soothing. The images are mainly adorable cats,\u00C2\u00A0and delicious baking and cute behind the scenes shots of Swift in rehearsals.  But what really makes Swift&amp;#039;s Instagram special is how she uses it to engage with her fans in sweet, inspiring and compassionate ways. Recently a young fan who was being bullied wrote to Swift via the site asking for advice, and was met with a lovely, sensitive and very personal response that you know meant the world. Swift has done the same on many occasions before, while being equally happy to poke fun at her own strange fashion mishaps and sassy pap shots.   4. James Franco On the opposite end of the Instagram spectrum, we have James Franco. Like almost every aspect of Franco&amp;#039;s increasingly surreal career, it&amp;#039;s hard to tell whether we&amp;#039;re meant to take his social media offerings at face value, or as some kind of performance art. Is he really this much of a douche, or is he researching his next role? We may never know the answers to any of this.  But Franco&amp;#039;s feed is still undeniably entertaining, if your creep tolerance is high and if you&amp;#039;re willing to let go of the last vestiges of any crush you may have had on him in the past. A lot of the pictures are Franco in or around his bed (not as hot as you might hope). Weird half-naked selfies also feature heavily. Other pics are more abstract, like this one of a cat wearing a baby-gro with Franco&amp;#039;s face on it. If you&amp;#039;re really lucky, you might get to witness Franco hitting on a teenage girl. All thanks to the magic of Instagram.   5. Mark Ruffalo As confirmed during our recent interview with him, Mark Ruffalo is all over Tumblr. He knows about #ScienceBros, and he&amp;#039;s into it. This is the kind of fandom engagement you just don&amp;#039;t get from every tweet-happy, self-promoting celeb.  While his partner-in-crime Robert Downey Jr has recently joined Twitter, Ruffalo remains the gold standard for Marvel stars across just about every conceivable social media outlet, consistently breaking the fourth wall to post gifs like this, or answer questions about Bruce Banner&amp;#039;s future love interests. The most recent example of Ruffalo using his powers for good? Kicking off the #CapForStrat movement among the Avengers cast to support a cancer-stricken fan.   6. Cher There was a point where following Cher on Twitter meant subjecting yourself to what felt like aggressive performance art, comprised mainly of stream-of-consciousness rambling and the odd genuinely concerning outburst.  These days, her feed reads more like your charmingly technophobic grandma&amp;#039;s emails than your worryingly unstable aunt&amp;#039;s, and if you can set aside the text-speak and inexplicable paragraphing and startling use of caps lock it&amp;#039;s actually a very sweet feed, with Cher sending out love to her live audiences and posting updates from the tour bus.  Ok.Bus stops,5 guys Run on IN FKG Girls ONSIES Zipped All The Way.MyBrother In Law is 6\u00E2\u20AC\u00B23 &amp;amp; RINGLEADER! THEY SAID THEY WERE RENEGADE SPERM \u00E2\u20AC\u201D Cher (@cher) June 22, 2014  7. Anna Kendrick No A-lister has mastered the delicate art of Twitter honesty more entirely than Anna Kendrick, whose feed is a joyous mix of behind-the-scenes tidbits, deadpan interactions with fellow stars and painfully relatable observations about everyday life.  She&amp;#039;s the Jennifer Lawrence of Twitter \u00E2\u20AC\u201C hilarious, unguarded, unafraid to eat fast food at glitzy events, and down-to-earth enough to make you pretty confident she is destined to be your BFF. Her crowning moment? Still that Ryan Gosling tweet... Ugh - NEVER going to a Ryan Gosling movie in a theater again. Apparently masturbating in the back row is still considered &amp;quot;inappropriate&amp;quot; \u00E2\u20AC\u201D Anna Kendrick (@AnnaKendrick47) January 14, 2013  8. Joss Whedon Whedon uses Twitter to nerd out over the film and TV that&amp;#039;s currently floating his boat, to post pictures of the entire Avengers cast eating Sunday lunch together, and to share characteristically witty insights into his own neuroses.  And occasionally \u00E2\u20AC\u201C\u00C2\u00A0very occasionally \u00E2\u20AC\u201C\u00C2\u00A0he&amp;#039;ll use it to show implicit support for a fellow filmmaker, even when that filmmaker has a beef with the studio that signs Whedon&amp;#039;s cheques. The Cornetto tweet wasn&amp;#039;t a statement on Edgar Wright&amp;#039;s departure from Ant-Man (Whedon&amp;#039;s position at Marvel Studios making an actual statement impossible), but it was almost better. Social media at its best.  Hey I just tried an after-dinner espresso and I feel kinda perky also am I the Ghost of Viking Jesus I am shaking shaking sTaRs \u00E2\u20AC\u201D Joss Whedon (@josswhedon) March 5, 2014  9. Patrick Stewart It&amp;#039;s no exaggeration to say that Patrick Stewart won Halloween last year. The British acting legend is best known for playing somewhat solemn authority figures like Captain Picard and X-Men&amp;#039;s Charles Xavier - in other words, not the sort of men who would be likely to dress up as a lobster in the bath. But that&amp;#039;s exactly what Stewart did, and it was incredible. The contrast between Stewart&amp;#039;s noble screen persona and his wonderfully silly online one is a lot of what makes his one of the most rewarding Twitter feeds to follow. Just in case anyone hadn&amp;#039;t been own over by the lobster thing, Stewart followed up this spring by making fun of David Cameron, and keeping us all up to date on his New York japery with BFF Ian McKellen.  .@robdelaney @David_Cameron @BarackObama I&amp;#039;m now patched in as well. Sorry for the delay. pic.twitter.com/elLQcKcV3w \u00E2\u20AC\u201D Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) March 5, 2014  10. Aaron Paul Aaron Paul&amp;#039;s Twitter feed is pretty much an anti-depressant in digital form. In contrast to the tortured souls he typically plays on screen, Paul is an excitable bundle of energy and positivity and earnest love for the world at large, and that&amp;#039;s exactly what you&amp;#039;ll get from his tweets, which he also uses to interact with fans to an admirable (and occasionally worrying) degree. Don&amp;#039;t tell the internet where you are, Aaron! His Instagram, though, is where the real magic happens. The near-flawless yet devastating conclusion of Breaking Bad last year was made just that bit more bearable by Paul, who supplemented the final episodes with an array of awesome images like this game-changer. And even once the show ended, Paul&amp;#039;s love-fests with co-star Bryan Cranston continued. See below for the most awesome example to date.   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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