Cultural and gay icon Dame Elizabeth Taylor has joined Twitter madness and become obsessed with the site according to Perez Hilton.
The 77-year-old Academy Award winner and AIDS activist Taylor became turned on to the site when she had time on her hands during routine visits to the hospital this week, her spokesman Dick Guttman told Perez. She's "fallen in love" with the site, Guttman said.
Taylor is already up to over 10,000 followers on Twitter and she's following 55, which are primarily AIDS-related tweeters and some celebrities including Joan Rivers, Demi Moore and Maria Shriver.
Here are a few of Taylor's sample tweets under the name Dame Elizabeth:
"Just saw "Twilight" on DVD. I want more!"
"Congratulations to Carole Bayer Sager on being selected for the 2009 Founder's Award from Lupus L.A."
"When in Rome, check out my jewels at the Bulgari retrospective at Il Palazzo delle Esposizioni, the brand's first in 125 years."