In the last couple days, celebrities have answered something I tweeted to them.
Lee Ann Wong (chef)- Told me about a Homer Simpson bottle opener after I said,“UMM Beer” to a pic of a Duff beer sign in Amsterdam.
Jarah Mariano (model)-told me she not a Yankee fan, just a proud New Yorker, after I razzed her for wearing a Yankke cap.
Anyone else get personal replies?
I only get them from their lawyers. 
My daughter has been re-tweeted twice by her idol, Laura Osnes. It really makes her day when something like that happens.
My sister got a reply from Anderson Cooper when she tweeted him. Then a few months later she sent him another tweet where she also just happened to mention that it was her birthday and he sent her a video message. As in an an actual video message that he sat down, turned on his webcam, recorded it just for her and posted it on her twitter page. I think it was about a minute long. I think she would have been thrilled to just get a “Happy Birthday” tweet from him.
My daughter’s best friend had a reply from Shemar Moore, her celebrity crush. I’m not sure what he said. I don’t even think what he said mattered.
I feel really out of it. Anderson Cooper is the only one mentioned so far that I’ve even heard of.
When I started following George Takei, he sent me a direct message thanking me. It said he couldn’t do it for everyone, but I imagine that’s exactly what happens. It was still pretty cool.
In the early days of Twitter, my hobby was trying to get celebrities to join, but I never had much luck. I tweet maybe once a week anymore, if I remember.
I am not a Twitter person. In one year I have only tweeted once, and yet that one tweet was re-tweeted by Brendan Coyle (who plays Mr. Bates on Downton Abbey.) 
Who believes that most personal tweets or other responses, from celebrities to their fans, really come from those celebrities? What celebs are going to have the time or inclination for that? They must get personal tweets, e-mails, and the like from fans by the hundreds or thousands. They all have PR people working for them of course, handling their press releases, publicity, etc. Are those the people who really answer tweets like that in their bosses’ names?
I’ve gotten responses and a couple of RTs from various celebs* (at least 15 to 20), but they are kind of obscure people who even if I listed their accomplishments and IMDB pages you’d still not know who they were.
It thrills me when it happens.
*In fact I got one just yesterday
No twitter replies, but George Takei reposted one of my tumblr posts.
I had weight loss surgery, and I e-mailed a question to one of the top surgeons in the US. He took the time to record a 15 minute You-Tube clip of himself answering the question. I was thrilled. That is like getting a free consult from a star international surgeon without even having to travel abroad.
This particular surgeon (Dr Rutledge, here is his channel on YouTube) is big on educating his patients, and one of the ways he does that is by explaining tidbits of important knowledge in a very accessible way. The man is almost a stand-up comedian, and he does a really good job of explaining complex stuff to laypeople with little education. So my clip was one of the many, and I hope many other people are helped by the answer.
Still, I shrieked like a little fan girl when I got his email referring to the clip.
Eh, most of the celebrities mentioned here just have less then 10k followers, and while they have agents, probably aren’t successful enough to have fulltime PR flacks. I can’t imagine that, say, the guy from Downton Abbey makes enough cash to have people whose job is to sit around answering his tweets. And I’d think acting probably involves a lot of time sitting around sets dicking around on your smart phone waiting to film your scene. That some subset of actors will spend that time fooling around on twitter doesn’t seem unlikely.
So I believe it.
And George Takei seems to basically do twitter/tumbler as his fulltime gig these days, so I believe that one as well.
Anderson Cooper is the most impressive one, but given that that involved a video message, its hard to dispute that must’ve been him as well. Cooper obviously needs a hobby.
Not nessarily twitter, but two celebs I know of, personally parcipatate in their Facebook pages…Mayim Bialk and Geri Jewel (the I don’t have cerebal palsy I’m drunk! comedian)
I got two answers from John Cusack… yes we have a relationship now!
Of course I tweet about once every two years
Stop ruining our fun! 
My kid follows NFL players and gets replies now and then. A few times it’s turned into a conversation.
I got a DM from Michael Moore when I commented on one of his tweets.
Yeah, Anthony Weiner. You may have heard about it.