<P> Celebrities use Twitter to engage with their fans . Ashton Kutcher and Stephen Fry do this, for examples . Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, was one of the first celebrities on Twitter . In 2009, he talked about how one can use one's Twitter fame as a form of cultural capital that can be leveraged . </P> <P> However, for celebrity users Twitter has proven to be a double - edged sword . Along with the laudatory comments from fans come hostile attacks from anonymous people; fan goodwill and even career opportunities can be lost through tweets; and several celebrities (Ashton Kutcher over a tweet about Joe Paterno, Courtney Love, and Chris Brown) have encountered trouble (in Love's case, sued) because of things that they have said on Twitter . </P> <P> Many celebrities do not actually maintain their own accounts; rather, the accounts are maintained by their publicists . </P> <P> The most popular United Kingdom celebrities on Twitter come from television with people like Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross being amongst the most popular British celebrities on the site . Fry's success on Twitter is credited with being the same person on Twitter that he is off Twitter . </P>

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