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Top 10 Celebrities Over 50 On Twitter

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Remember when Facebook was strictly a young person's game, viewed with skepticism and quasi-hostility from everyone over 30? Then, in time, everyone embraced the social networking giant, realizing the benefits to communication that it offered, and Facebook joined email, text messaging and smart phones as staples of modern interaction.

Today, it seems Twitter -- the micro-blogging service that offers instant updates about celebrities and world events to users who can in turn "tweet" the happenings in their own lives in 140 characters or less to their friends and followers -- is destined to take its place as the next multi-generational phenomenon to sweep the Web.

To help those reluctant readers that haven't joined the Twitter-revolution yet, Huff/Post50 decided to compile our list of the top 10 celebrity twitter users over 50 that prove Twitter is not just a young person's game. They're by no means the most followed Twitter users, but these 10 celebs are some of the most talked about, praised, and re-tweeted users. If you're starting your own account, or already have one, these feeds are a must:

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Top 10 Celebrities Over 50 To Follow On Twitter
Sen. Claire McCaskill (MO)(01 of10)
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Handle: @clairecmcFollowers: 60,557Sample Tweet: "Why does it make me so happy when my 22yr old daughter texts me that she has been cleaning her apt since noon?" (credit:Getty)
Albert Brooks(02 of10)
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Handle: @AlbertBrooksFollowers: 177,257Sample Tweet: "Won $600 in poker. Going to put in a bid for the Dodgers." (credit:Getty)
Steven Tyler(03 of10)
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Handle: @IamStevenTFollowers: 311,779Sample Tweet: "HELLO ST LOUIE!!!!....DID THEY NAME THIS CITY AFTER LOUIE ARMSTRONG.......OR LOUIE CK?!? IS THE THEME SONG ST. (LOUIE, LOUIE?!?!?)" (credit:Getty)
Alec Baldwin(04 of10)
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Handle: @AlecBaldwinFollowers: 506,078Sample Tweet: "Do we hate people who cheat and steal successfully? Or do we now just hate success, period?" (credit:Getty)
Kathy Griffin(05 of10)
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Handle: @kathygriffinFollowers: 1,150,335Sample Tweet: "F ing LUV that Kim K is "in hiding" ...standing on Kris Humphries' porch in Minn in full hair & make up being photographed" (credit:Getty)
Steve Martin(06 of10)
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Handle: @SteveMartinToGoFollowers: 1,819,523Sample Tweet: "Trying to correct my Wiki bio: I am not allergic to Al Gore. Would everybody PLEASE stop yammering about this. Seriously." (credit:Getty)
Demi Moore(07 of10)
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Handle: @mrskutcherFollowers: 4,211,271Sample Tweet: "When we are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself & study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. - Epictetus" (credit:Getty)
Oprah Winfrey(08 of10)
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Handle: @OprahFollowers: 8,086,347Sample Tweet: "Excellence is the best deterrent to racism,sexism all the 'ism's. Be excellent in all endeavors. People notice and remember." (credit:Getty)
Ellen Degeneres(09 of10)
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Handle: @TheEllenShowFollowers: 8,091,649Sample Tweet: "I was so excited to gain an hour from daylight savings. Then it took me two hours to change my clocks, so technically, I lost an hour." (credit:Getty)
Barack Obama(10 of10)
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Handle: @BarackObamaFollowers: 10,972,667Sample Tweet: "We are tougher than the times that we live in, and we are bigger than our politics have been. So let's meet the moment." (credit:Getty)
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