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By Anneke Hak

There’s been a whole lot of hype over Twitter – the latest internet craze – in the past few weeks, with some of our favourite celebrities already in on the tweeting action. Firstly let’s clear up the confusion? What exactly is Twitter? The best way that we can describe it that it’s like Facebook status updates, only less self-obsessed. And a tweet? That’s the actual message, which you have to fit in to 140 characters.

For pure Twitter indulgence, we took a look at our favourite Twittering celebrities and their Twitter style. Warning: this may alter your perception of the life of a celebrity…

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