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VIA NEWSONE

BY Samuel Aleshinloye

In celebration of the trending topic “Follow Friday” on Twitter.com, here’s a list of the top five Black celebrities you must follow.

Trending Topics on Twitter.com are phrases that are arbitrarily created by users, to collaborate and discuss certain popular topics, jokes, or quotes. A growing tradition created by Twitter members in order to show appreciation for their followers is the trending topic called “Follow Fridays”, which is simply typed as “#FF”. Users mention followers in a tweet whom they may find witty, funny, and inspirational, or even solely to reciprocate the Follow Friday mention they received.

I have compiled a list of five celebrities whom I follow, that inspire me daily, entertain me hourly, and quite frankly should be someone you follow.

#1. President Barack Obama (#FF @BarackObama)

Followers: 4,227,691

Not only is he the first Black President, he is the first President to have a Twitter account. If that fact has not sold you yet, get this: he created a trending topic for the State of the Union Address called #STUA, where he gave updates on points he spoke about in his speech. Not only is he a terrific orator, he’s as technologically connected as Tom from Myspace.

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