Rap singer Frank Ocean had an account until the summer of 2013 when he deleted it. The following chart shows those with the highest ratio of persons followed: to followers (of those with at least 10,000 followers):ģ0% of gay movers and shakers aren't on Twitter their median age is 57, which is seven years older than those with Twitter accounts. New York Times advertising reporter Stuart Elliott stands out because he is the only person in this analysis who follows more people than his number of followers (27,700 vs.
And photographer Mike Ruiz also follows more than Ellen, with 49,000 - but has only 100,000 followers in total. That's 5,000 more than Ellen even though he has 21.5 million fewer followers. Steven Fry has follows the most of any celeb, with 51,500. Ellen follows 46,500 but that's a tiny amount when you consider that she has 28 million followers. However, there are 25 of the gliterrati who follow more than 2,500. Nine can't be bothered to follow anyone, with the most arrogance (or is it chutzpah?) displayed by Ryan Murphy (who has 639,000 followers) and Matt Drudge (262,000). Neil Patrick Harris, who has more than eight million followers, follows just 69, or one out of every 125,000 of his followers Ricky Martin follows one out of every 33,000 and Ellen DeGeneres follows one out of every 600. The following chart lists the 15 most prolific tweeters:Īlthough the median number of followers gay A-listers have is 25,000, the number of persons they follow back is just 295, which works out to about one out of every hundred persons who follow them. In total, there are 52 LGBT celebs who have sent more than 10,000 tweets. Then weatherman Sam Champion, journalist Glenn Greenwald and Boy George have each tweeted between 44,000 and 46,000 times (includes retweets). In addition to these five, there are eleven others who have sent fewer than ten tweets.Įntertainment blogger Michael Buckley (aka Buck Hollywood) has sent the most tweets, 87,600, followed by porn director Chi Chi La Rue with 78,3000. Bomer's lack of tweets is particularly noteworthy considering he has 168,000 followers (akin to subscribing to a magazine that doesn't publish). This includes five who have yet to send their first tweet: Matt Bomer, entrepreneur Peter Thiel, Jason Gould (Babs' son), Ben Brantley and Cynthia Nixon.
Other surprises include British TV personality Alan Carr at #7 pop singer Robbie Williams at #12 DJ Samantha Ronson at #16 financial advice doyenne Suze Orman at #17 trainer Jillian Michaels at #22 and actor Ian McKellen at #23. The biggest head scratcher, for me at least, is the wild popularity of British actor Stephen Fry, who has the 4th highest following, with 6.7 million. LGBT PERSONALITIES WITH 1 MILLION+ TWITTER FOLLOWERSĪt the other end of the spectrum, 39 persons have fewer than 1,000 followers, including personalities such as director Gus Van Sant, New York Times theater critic Bill Brantley, designer Todd Oldham and author Kevin Sessums.
The following chart lists the gay and lesbian celebrities with 1 million or more Twitter followers: Three are under 30, with British diver Tom Daley, at age 19, the youngest.
Four of the celebs with 1 million+ followers are over the age of 60, with George Takei, at 77, being the oldest. She is followed by Ricky Martin and Neil Patrick Harris who have 10 and 8.4 million followers, respectively. Twenty-two have more than 1 million, led by Ellen DeGeneres, who has more than 28 million (she also ranks in the top 10 among all celebs). The median number of followers is 25,000. Similar to the the Google analysis, I chose close to 450 gay and lesbian "personalities", 70% of whom have Twitter accounts those with accounts have a median age of 50, with thirty over the age of 65 and thirteen younger than 30. This latest analysis gauges the popularity of these gay and lesbian "A-listers" based on the number of followers each has on Twitter. Recently I wrote a post about overexposed LGBT celebrities based on how many Google search results they had.