About This Quiz
They launched Twitter way back in 2006, if you can believe it, and people took to calling it a microblogging site. You had room to say things in 140 characters or less, forcing you to be quick and witty if you had anything to share. Like all social media sites, Twitter took some time to grow, but eventually, it did, due in no small part to celebrity influence. It was easy to interact with celebrities on Twitter, and it became clear that they like to sit on their phones and tweet random jokes and memes, just like the rest of us, when they're not busy.Â
The site gained steam as it became a tool, not just for laughs but also for politics. Nowadays, it seems like actual policy is formed on Twitter, and important decisions play out one tweet at a time in front of everyone.Â
There are users on Twitter with well over 100 million followers right now, and you can get up-to-the-minute news and opinions from all your favorite celebs there. Want to know what Drake thinks about Disney+? Check his tweets. Curious about when Katy Perry's new album is out? Bet she has it pinned. Eager for a sneak peek of the next season of "Stranger Things"? The cast are all on Twitter! But can you ID them based on nothing more than their bios? Let's find out!
Guy Fieri is rocking the title "Mayor of Flavortown" these days. He rose to fame on the show "The Next Food Network Star," but he'd always had a place in the culinary world. He even sold pretzels from a cart when he was in school.
Chrissy Teigen has proven to be a Twitter wizard, posting some of the funniest tweets and best retorts to insults on the entire site. She's in her 11th year on the site right now and has 12 million followers who love what she does.
Taylor Swift is just dropping you a note to let you know her album is out. "Lover" won the People's Choice Award for Album of the Year in 2019. Nearly 180,000 fans pre-saved the album on Apple Music in a single day, making it the most pre-saved album by a female artist ever. It sold 3 million units in its first week.
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Cher packed as much into her bio as possible, even if she had to abbreviate and sacrifice some clarity. Cher has been in the public eye since way back in 1965, meaning she's had over half a century of fame. Not too bad at all.
Who else performs random acts of Shaqness but Shaq? Shaquille O'Neal has nearly 15 million followers on Twitter, but his presence is a little spotty. Sometimes he'll go a few days without saying anything.
For as much time as Gordon Ramsay spends yelling at people on TV, you can tell he has a decent sense of humor as well. His Twitter feed is famous for ripping apart people's home-cooked meal photos with snappy insults.
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Lizzo has actually been on Twitter since 2011, but there's no doubt that 2019 was her year to shine. Not only was she nominated for eight Grammy Awards, but she also snagged six Soul Train Music Award nominations and two wins, three American Music Award noms, four MTV Video Music Award noms and three Teen Choice Award noms.
Katy Perry has the second most popular Twitter account in the world, with a whopping 108 million followers. Her bio has a pretty simple message, but she keeps the account updated sometimes several times a day, so she has lots to say otherwise.
Dwayne Johnson has been on Twitter since back in 2011. Hs bio reads "Chivalrous gentleman.. just add fine tequila." While he posts under the name "Dwayne Johnson," his actual Twitter account is @TheRock.
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Barack Obama is the most popular person on Twitter, with a stunning 111 million followers. That's around three times the population of Canada! He also follows 610,000 people, so he clearly keeps his feed pretty busy.
Finn Wolfhard, star of both "Stranger Things" and Stephen King's "It," has amassed an impressive 2.3 million followers since he started his account in 2011. Given that in 2020 he's 17 and not 32, that's doubly impressive. Also, he started his account when he was 8?
James Blunt has sold over 20 million records in his career, but before that he enjoyed a fairly successful career in the military. He rose to the rank of captain and served six years, from 1996 until 2002.
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Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr., is not a very prolific tweeter at all. He can go weeks at a time without saying anything, but that hasn't stopped nearly 15 million people from following to check out what he does have to say.
Everyone knows Mindy Kaling from her time on "The Office" and also "The Mindy Project." She got her first taste of real showbiz when she was still in her teens, working as an intern on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien."
Tom Hanks is not nearly as active on Twitter as some celebrities, but he does have a presence there. He might only post once every week or two, but he's posting for 16 million followers, so at least he's not overwhelming anyone.
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Mara Wilson famously played Matilda back in the day, as well as having roles in "Mrs. Doubtfire" and "Miracle on 34th Street." She's very prolific on Twitter these days and is constantly being added to lists and articles about where she is and what she looks like now, so much so that she wrote a book called "Where Am I Now?"
Rihanna's bio is a quick advertisement for her book "Rihanna." It's just over $100 and features about 1,000 pictures. If her entire 95.1 million followers buy a copy, then the book will make a cool $9.51 billion.
Tiffany Haddish has been doing standup comedy since the late 1990s. During that time she also managed a lot of random jobs, including customer service for an airline, before she finally got the recognition she deserves, due to a string of sitcom guest spots.
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You might know David Harbour best as Hopper on "Stranger Things" or possibly even as Hellboy. He's got over 1 million followers on Twitter, and it's about time. He's been acting since way back in 2002.
Host of "The Tonight Show," Jimmy Fallon just labels himself as an astrophysicist and nothing else. In real life, before he became famous, Fallon went to the College of Saint Rose in New York where he was a computer science major.
Kristen Bell is probably most well known for "The Good Place" and for her run as the lead in "Veronica Mars." She's also been immortalized in the world of Disney as the voice of Princess Anna in the Frozen movies.
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Conan O'Brien has 28.6 million followers on Twitter, making him the second most popular late night host, after Jimmy Fallon. Not a lot of people know that he's a pretty smart guy who graduated from Harvard magna cum laude and was even his high school's valedictorian.
Justin Bieber encouraged us all to make the world a better place, sending that message out to his incredible 108 million followers. Believe it or not, with all those followers, he's still trailing Barack Obama, and he's even with Katy Perry. At the moment, his bio plugs his new video — "Yummy out now."
Anna Kendrick is pretty good at keeping things funny on Twitter. Not only is her bio amusing, but she also has her location listed as "probably by the food." The vast majority of her tweets are solid, often self-deprecating jokes.
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Bill Gates is one of the richest men in the world, in the company of Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett. He and his wife founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000, with the belief that "All lives have equal value."
Even if you don't know H. Jon Benjamin's face, you know his voice. One of the biggest names in animation, Benjamin is both Sterling Archer from "Archer" and Bob from "Bob's Burgers" — and he's the Arby's guy.
Niall Horan, probably best known from his time in the band One Direction, has also been enjoying a solo career. In 2020 he's going on a "Nice to Meet Ya" tour, named for the lead single of his latest album.
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New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi has been having a great few years. He got internationally huge with "What We Do in the Shadows," and then he exploded when he directed "Thor: Ragnarok." In the latter, he also provided the voice of everyone's favorite rocky gladiator, Korg.
Everyone's favorite Stark from "Game of Thrones," Maisie Williams can certainly be a bit goofy on Twitter when she wants to be. She also frequently shares posts and pictures of herself with former costar Sophie Turner.
Neil Patrick Harris has been acting since he was a child when he first starred opposite Whoopi Goldberg in "Clara's Heart." He's arguably most well known, at least from his childhood, for the show "Doogie Howser, M.D.," in which he played a child doctor.
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Legendary '80s wrestler and WWE superstar the Iron Sheik has a hilarious Twitter feed, if you don't mind non-stop foul language and bizarre aggression. Beneath it all, there's a weird charm that peeks out, though, which is how he got over 500,000 followers.
Bryce Dallas Howard is the daughter of director Ron Howard, and she has made a big impression in the acting world. She got her big break in M. Night Shyamalan's "The Village" and has gone on to some huge franchises, including Terminator, Twilight and Jurassic Park.
Director Guillermo del Toro spends a lot of time on Twitter, showing off some really cool behind the scenes stuff that relates to his movies and also just random stuff he finds interesting. He'll often update his feed numerous times per day.
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Kat Dennings made her splash back in 2005 with "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" before going on to star in "2 Broke Girls." She'll also be in the upcoming Disney+ series "WandaVision," where she reprises her role from "Thor."