Following celebrities on Twitter is the newest form of celebrity gossip, which itself is just a modern rendition of one of the most human of habits, gossip. Gossip is the human version of the grooming seen in other apes, and it is as much a part of the human condition as war. When everyone was uneducated and lived in small villages, as was the case for the majority of people until only a few hundred years ago, there was nothing to talk about except for gossip. Just because we now have more to talk about doesn&#x27;t mean that the need for gossip has gone away completely.<p>Just because you and I don&#x27;t get any value out of it doesn&#x27;t mean that nobody else can.