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Ummm...what? What difference does it make how many celebrities are on there, especially if you're still using Search to track your friends?

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I wasn't using search before, maybe I said that wrong. Before, I had an account and followed more people than I cared to keep up with (the you follow me, I follow you problem) then the celebrities came and really turned me off.

So I deleted my account and now use specialized searches through the API to just show me what my close friends who use twitter are up to.

Twitter has a pretty good specialized search for what your friends are up to: Twitter :) Why didn't you just unfollow the people you don't want to hear from?

I like to be able to stop "following" somebody without them being aware of it. I like following to work like RSS. Only I know who I am watching.

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