To follow Justin Bieber on Twitter, go on to www.twitter.com/justinbieber.

Who is Justin Bieber?

Justin Bieber is a Canadian R&B pop singer and a teen idol for many fans. His debut single, “One Time”, hit the billboard charts in many countries, as did his most recent hit, “Baby”. His feed is one of the most popular on Twitter, because his fan base skews towards teenagers, who are generally more technologically savvy and are heavy users of social media.

What is Twitter?

It is a new form of social media which allows users to follow each other’s activities in real time. Users can write short messages restricted to 140 characters, known as tweets, and can follow tweets written by others. The short message format encourages off-the-cuff impromptu messages by its users, usually about what they are doing or feeling at that time. While it has been criticized for encouraging the production of meaningless content about the minutiae of its users’ lives, ardent fans of movie stars and celebrities hang on their idol’s every tweet, and celebrity tweet streams have been big hits on the service.

Tips on following celebrities on Twitter.com

There are, however, dangers to following celebrities on this social networking website. A common fraud on this social network site is the creation of fake celebrity accounts. These fake accounts are possible because anyone can register for an account under any name, and the company does not demand any documentation to verify its users’ identities. For example, fake twitter accounts for Miley Cyrus have been reported. Miley Cyrus herself does not use and does not intend to use the microblogging service, and multiple fake accounts purporting to be Miley Cyrus have surfaced. In order to verify that the account you are following truly belongs to the person you’re interested in, it is best to first do a Google search for the person, go to his or her official home page, and then look for links back to his or her Twitter account. Also, you can look at the people your celebrity is following, and what the celebrity tweets about. Like ordinary people, celebrities tend to follow their friends and family, and not thousands of people, and tend to write about mundane ordinary events, rather than push commercial products and messages.

Also, it is possible that the celebrity Twitter account you are following is not personally written by your idol. Many celebrities are too busy to tweet frequently, and outsource their tweeting to their public relations firms. Still, many celebrities, especially the young ones, do personally write their own tweets. To sign up on Twitter so that you can follow your favorite celebrity, go on over to twitter.com.

Link for following Justin Bieber on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/justinbieber