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Sharing is Caring: 5 really popular people on twitter that you’ve probably never heard of

October 26, 2009

I was on CNN.com this morning, scaling the articles, avoiding the ones with death or killed in the title- looking for something with a little more hope and inspiration. I stumbled upon this article about 5 people who we probably aren’t familiar with but we should be- because they’re obviously doing something interesting with over a million followers each. With the phenomenal globalization of twitter- people everywhere and of all ages, races and beliefs are using their 140 characters to get their messages, thoughts, movement out to the masses. I love it. It’s so cool to be able to talk to people and make friends just off of short conversations online.

Check out these regular people doing extraordinary things that deserve attention and a following:
(CNN) — Sure, everyone knows that Oprah, Shaq and Ashton Kutcher are huge on Twitter. They’re famous — they should be huge on Twitter.
But Heather Armstrong? John Dickerson? Adventure Girl? These people can stroll unmolested through a paparazzi convention, and yet each has more than 1.2 million Twitter followers — enough to rank them in the top 200 overall and more than Stephen Colbert, Snoop Dogg or Paris Hilton.
To thrive on the popular micro-blogging site, celebrity isn’t always enough. You also must have something to say.
“You can’t be Moses shouting down the mountain on Twitter,” says Brandon Mendelson, a blogger who has amassed almost a million Twitter followers. “You need to be that friend everyone wants to hang out with.”
Here’s a look at five Twitterers you may not have heard of. They don’t show up in the tabloids or on Leno. But they have the power, through the viral effect of their retweets, to make things happen, and maybe even nudge the national conversation a little.
Heather Armstrong: @dooce
If her real name doesn’t ring a bell, the name of her blog might. Armstrong launched Dooce.com in 2001 and soon built an audience for her deeply personal, brutally honest posts about married life, kids and a postpartum depression that landed her in a mental hospital. READ THE REST

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