Is Twitter still a viable social networking utility now that you can follow A list celebs?

Two words: FOR SURE.

Popular sites such as Facebook and Myspace only benefited with it’s celebrity infusion, in fact they aren’t where they are today without them. Twitter as we know it is most likely in it’s infancy. As a business tool, as a social network it’s just learning how to crawl. It’s stuck in a power struggle of geek verse pop culture, and just as the late 90s techno-revolution proved, the geek will be alright.

Even better, the geek will be Twitter cool. And Twitter in turn will turn pop culture, all to it’s benefit, and to ours as well. The core fundamentals behind Twitter are so basic that I don’t fear being overwhelmed with celebrity spam and less than tasteful advertisements. Don’t get me wrong, of course the more popular twitter becomes the more sleezy marketers will be attracted to it trying to make a quick buck.

It’s just so easy to pick and choose who you follow. Given the abundance of powerful Twitter applications leveraging their API, you can sort, follow and filter to truly customize your experience.

The real benefit here of celebrity popularity will be getting oer the Twitter hurdle. All too often I hear, “yeah, I have Twitter, but I don’t know how to use it.” Give the public a celebrity infatuation as some motivation and the not knowing Twitter account holders will soon become your everyday non geek tweep.

What does this mean? Twitter has started in somewhat of a social media vaccum. Pretty much Twitter is social media so the default theme is to follow social media. Celebrities will only bring in “non-traditional” users that will push the use of Twitter past the socmed status quo and on to mainstream use.

Pay attention, there may be a Twitter population to click on ads after all.