Think about it. Twitter is the greatest invention for nerds that has ever existed. Ok, maybe the second greatest after the invention of television, which allowed nerds to not only read nerdy things, but to see those nerdy things brought to life. Twitter is second only to that. It allows us to take our nerd-dom to a whole new level of obsession.
With a few simple clicks of a few buttons, every nerd is allowed to practically stalk his or her favorite actors, actresses, directors, and writers without feeling guilty about it. Why is twitter guilt-free? Because each and every tweet is put up by the celebrities themselves. The famous people control their twitters so if you know they're going to Chicago to celebrate Thanksgiving with their family (here's looking at you, Chloe Bennet), it isn't because you did some creepy internet stalking that is likely to end with the receipt of a restraining order. It's because she told you she was going.
I've also noticed that while I saw a picture of Neil Patrick Harris's Thanksgiving dinner, I don't feel as connected to him as I do to the actors in actresses in total nerd shows. The Whedonverse members, in particular, are always interactive with their fans, gracious, and grateful for the love. This allows people (me included) to feel they have an actual relationship with these people. It's the ultimate nerd fantasy. Well, not ultimate. It doesn't give us lightsabers or allow us to be beamed up by Mr. Scott. But these people allow us to have relationships with them. We can talk to them. They can talk to us. We can watch them have dance parties at 4:30 in the morning in the make-up trailer. We can exchange puns.
We get to know these people in a non-creepy and authentic way. Well as authentic as social media relationships can be - but it's 1,000,000 times more real and more awesome than reading gossip magazines and looking at photos taken from creeper-cams.
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