Celebrities on Twitter: Your thoughts?
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What's everyone think about celebrities jumping on the Twitter bandwagon?
While Britney Spears is getting all the attention today, I've stumbled across everyone from William Shatner to Dave Matthews to my local Bay Area favorite, MC Hammer. Even Penn Jillette has tweets.
What do you think of the whole phenomenon? Do you follow any celebrity Twitterers?
P.S. My favorite Twitter semi-celebrity is Tony Hsieh -- the CEO of Zappos. He cracks me up with tweets like this one:
@zappos: My favorite thing... is the "Don't Ever Click Here" link near the bottom right - http://zeta.zappos.com
While Britney Spears is getting all the attention today, I've stumbled across everyone from William Shatner to Dave Matthews to my local Bay Area favorite, MC Hammer. Even Penn Jillette has tweets.
What do you think of the whole phenomenon? Do you follow any celebrity Twitterers?
P.S. My favorite Twitter semi-celebrity is Tony Hsieh -- the CEO of Zappos. He cracks me up with tweets like this one:
@zappos: My favorite thing... is the "Don't Ever Click Here" link near the bottom right - http://zeta.zappos.com
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Permalink Reply by Patty Gale on -
Well, I'll be honest... I don't really keep up with celebs on t.v., I'm probably not going to start following them on Twitter.
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Permalink Reply by Kathleen McDade on
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Permalink Reply by Barefoot Bath and Body on -
I follow a few...but to be honest I'm not all that sure it is really them...some of them haven't even updated since last year.
Just about everyone I know tweets..why not a celeb?
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Permalink Reply by Apryl on -
I saw that Britney Spears tweeting earlier too Megan.
Anyhoo, I don't want to follow celebs around. Seems like it would mostly be self-promotion and that would become annoying real fast. Or completely useless nonsense -- think of what Paris Hilton's tweets must be like.
I do enjoy watching the banter between FakeSarahPalin, FakeJohnMcCain, FakeBarackObama and FakeJoeBiden.
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Permalink Reply by Cindy Schultz on -
I follow Michael W. Smith and Brandon Heath, two of my favorite Christian musicians. I got their twitter info off of the twitter pages of my favorite Christian radio personalities at Thejoyfm. They are the one who introduced me to Twitter by talking about it on air.
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Permalink Reply by Duong on -
I'm so not into following any celebs especially Brittany...my time is to precious to get caught up with that..the ones I follow are those whom I feel I can learn something meaningful from...and to be honest any celebs w/lots of drama is meaningless...in my opinion.
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Permalink Reply by jazzy on -
I follow Kanye West, but I am also a fan of his blog...so that's not a big step. Other than that, I've found that some people follow the fictional characters of their favorite shows, like entourage.
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Permalink Reply by Rossy on -
how can you know if its really them, I mean couldn't be like their publicist?
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Permalink Reply by Kate on -
I'm following Stephen Fry - he's famous this side of the Atlantic, and he's following me. I don't think I'd bother following Britney though.
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Permalink Reply by Kate on
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That's a good point! I know the chap I'm following also blogs and is very tech savvy - he's been using the internet since the 90s - but I suspect a lot of them probably wouldn't have the time or inclination to tweet themselves.
Rossy said:how can you know if its really them, I mean couldn't be like their publicist?
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Permalink Reply by Julie Estrella on -
Barbara said:Not me. I doubt it's even really them to be honest.
I totally agree. Probably not them and even if it was....don't care to follow.
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