5 Alternative Celebrities You Should Be Following on Twitter
Forget following annoyingly oversaturated celebrities on twitter (Kardashians, anyone?). Here are 5 alternative celebrities that will enhance your twitter feed!
1. Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips @waynecoyne
Alternative rock band The Flaming Lips are known for their psychedelic live shows. If you’re lucky enough to attend one of their concerts, you can expect rainbow strobe lights, trippy graphics, and a gigantic hamster ball floating over the crowd. Wayne Coyne, the group’s lead singer, is one far-out dude that has a fascinatingly positive perspective on life. On twitter, he invites followers into his bizarre psyche. He often tweets his “doodle” artwork, his naked wife, and “psychedelic” nature scenes. What we find mundane, Coyne finds extraordinary.
2. Hipster Runoff @hipsterrunoff
Satirical blog Hipster Runoff has a hilarious twitter companion that will add entertainment and laughs to your twitter feed. The cheeky account pokes fun at all things “lamestream” (their word for mainstream). While the site was created to expose the absurdities in the urban hipster culture, its biggest fans are hipsters themselves. Followers have a good sense of humor about the indie music scene and alternative celebrities. Follow for funny comments on Pitchfork reviews and meme’s of your favorite indie and electronic artists!
3. Tanlines @tanlines
This Brooklyn-based experimental pop duo have an intelligent wit that will make you hit the retweet button over and over. With ironic commentary, Tanlines is 140 characters of sarcastic hilarity. They have an album dropping in 2012, but don’t expect self promotion on their twitter like you do on so many other celebrity twitters (*cough* Lindsay Lohan). Tanlines has simple, funny tweets that will make you smile and wish you were half as witty.
4. Bebe Zeva @bebezeva
Indie celebrity, Bebe Zeva, is a young style icon who tweets mostly nonsensical muses about life. Her tweets are part aggressive, part white girl problems. Her twitter invites you into the mind of a girl that got famous because of the internet. She utilizes twitter to air her grievances in an irreverent way, and the result is hilarious.
5. Ben Hoffman @benihoff
If you’re not following Ben Hoffman, you’re missing out on some seriously offensive jokes. Hoffman is a comedy writer who made it big on Current TV’s satirical news show InfoMania doing funny segments on new technology. Hoffman’s twitter is great because he tweets about the things that pisses everyone off. It is easy to relate to him when he tweets about how irritating Kim Kardashian is or the fact that Time Warner Cable is not working. He has a hilariously crude sense of humor and will leave you with retweetable content everyday.
