[UPDATE: Round 1 and 2 voting is closed; check out Friday's follow-up for continued smashmouth celeb-Twitter battles.]
The Twitterverse is stacked higher and deeper than ever with celebrity -- maybe too high and too deep. This calls for a special edition of Movieline's Tournament of Champions, our trademark exercise in Darwinian democracy designed to help streamline and improve your pop-culture intake. This week, in the hopes of desperately needed new-media herd-thinning, we ask you to vote on the best of the celeb-Twitterers above. Only one can survive to tweet another day.* You can thank us later. After the jump: Meet your contestants!
1. Jon Favreau (@jon_favreau)
PROS: Prolifically forthcoming about details of Iron Man 2 shoot.
CONS: What will he tweet about when the shoot is finished later this week? Ain't nothing sexy about post-production.
SAMPLE TWEET: "Great day with Stark and Rhodey. Three days left."
2. Diablo Cody (@diablocody)
PROS: Refreshing, down-to-earth source of (sometimes self-deprecating) Hollywood humor.
CONS: Maybe too easily accessible to followers, makes casual reading a slog.
SAMPLE TWEET: "Zellweger 'packing it on' for role, per People. That's a little crude, right? What's next, 'Brad and Angie Jammin' It In'"?
3. Elizabeth Taylor (@DameElizabeth)
PROS: She's Elizabeth Freaking Taylor.
CONS: Hasn't tweeted since July 6. Someone check on her!
SAMPLE TWEET: "I just don't believe that Michael would want me to share my grief with millions of others. How I feel is between us. Not a public event."
4. Jane Fonda (@Janefonda)
PROS: Occasionally revealing cultural and political insights, but...
CONS: You have to click through mostly self-promotional tweets to get to them. Also might post more often.
SAMPLE TWEET: "I wrote a piece in Huffpo on Community Based Doula program."
5. Nicole Richie (@nicolerichie)
PROS: Collects an endearing, funny hodgepodge of 144-character slaps and giggles.
CONS: Dizzying and disorienting, prompting readers to lie down after about 10 seconds of viewing.
SAMPLE TWEET: "@XzOtiCCaNdY Sometimes you should lay off the self tanner"
6. Miley Cyrus (@mileycyrus)
PROS: Offers an even more endearing torrent of odd, vivid life observations.
CONS: Readership feels creepily close to voyeurism.
SAMPLE TWEET: "Good morning everyone. Life is good. I am laying in bed with my mommy right now scratching her bug bites."
7. Rainn Wilson (@rainnwilson)
PROS: Funny! Prolific!
CONS: Troubling imbalance between self-promotion and world-class point of view.
SAMPLE TWEET: "Dear mid 40s Russian-Israeli woman w fake boobs lounging 4 hours in the community kids pool, what made u decide on the tweetie bird tattoo?"
8. Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling)
PROS: Funny! Prolific!
CONS: Needs more Office gossip. Or any gossip.
SAMPLE TWEET: "Oh hello again, Virgin America plane. Your insides were designed to look like a childs retainer. And I love you! Don't crash!"
Vote early, vote often and visit again tomorrow for Round 2! [UPDATE: Voting is now closed, but the finals are currently underway here.]
*: Or at least entitle him/herself to the privilege of bragging rights.