Welcome to Social Capital, a series devoted to analyzing the social-media presences of celebrities.

Let’s just get this out of the way: You love his work. For people my age, Danny DeVito — beloved character actor, accomplished producer and petite human man — hit his apogee of cultural saturation with Tina Fey’s 2004 movie “Mean Girls,” in which a zaftig woman is ridiculed for looking like DeVito. Even now, I can barely mention DeVito’s name – you’d be surprised how often he comes up — without inspiring a recitation of the line, because everyone I know is 25 and an idiot. (Which, fine: It’s a good joke. A clever joke! A good, clever, 11-year-old joke.)

I, however, do genuinely love his work. Danny DeVito is, hands down, the most underrated actor of all time; he was in “Space Jam,” for crying out loud. But most of all, I love his Twitter account, to which he has been regularly posting for five years after a relatively inconsistent start. When he first started tweeting frequently, DeVito used the service the way we all did in 2011: sort of badly, recommending articles without including a link to the actual article and posting puzzling non sequiturs.

When you opt into receiving intermittent alerts about a person’s life, boring stuff sort of comes with the territory. But when you’re a fan of that person, “boring” transforms into “behind the scenes,” where every morsel of information is a gift, another step toward making the person seem real. (It also helps when your favorite celebrity isn’t a tabloid staple.) As a proud DeVito DeVotee, I consider DeVito’s most mundane tweets to be among his best for exactly that reason: Danny DeVito likes Jell-O. He once got some snow. He ran into Sidney Poitier. He has some, er, unfavorable thoughts about The New York Times. Sure, these are trivial details, but they’re trivial details that I wanted to know. I’ve retained plenty of insignificant information about my mother that I never signed up for.