Can you talk to famous people on Twitter?

Most celebrities use professional services to handle their Twitter accounts. Even the ones that do their own tweets are usually using software that scans and filters and schedules for them.

To increase the odds of getting a celeb to retweet you, a few simple steps will make you more visible.

1. Does the celebrity retweet average joe tweets? After reviewing their stream for a few days, if you see no retweets give it up.

2. Does the celebrity have a list? Make sure and follow the list, not just the celebrity.

3. Keep notes on their favorite hash tags. Do they use any unique or low-popularity tags? Tagging your own content (when actually relevant) can raise you up on their radar.

4. Do you have a blog? Quoting a celeb tweet or two on your blog

• then tweeting the post - provides greater 'discoverability.'

5. Finally, collecting some of your best tweets on a subject, write the celebrity or call the celeb's PR agency or production company and let them know how they influenced you on the subjects -- include your twitter handle. Obviously this works best for celebs with causes.

6. Get followed or retweeted by a celebrity? Make sure to comment rather than DM.