Everyone’s climbing on the Twitter bandwagon, including celebrities.
But maybe there should be a rule that prohibits celebrities from using Twitter. Why? Mostly because the danger of Twitter is it can reveal the mundaneness of everyday life. When you peel back the onion, the lives of celebrities, for the most part, are just as dull as the rest of us.
And the truth is we really don’t want our celebrities to be boring like us. We want them to be glamorous, sexy, extravagant, rich and beautiful. We like it when they get drunk in public or cut off all their hair or abandon their marriages or wear bad clothes to public events. But we don’t want them to act like us.
So, let’s ban celebrities – even the minor ones – from using Twitter. They’ve got their bling, red carpets and shopping sprees. We’ve got Twitter.
For more, check out Spark Minute, who points out a site devoted to Twitter-ing celebrities called Celebrity Tweet. The New York Times had a story on celebrities who use Twitter. As well, CNet has a story about directories that let you find “cool” people to follow.
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Not sure I agree! Using Twitter to post about celeb's lives may reduce the intrusion of the press who want to know every detail anyway!
But I want them to be exposed as the shams that they really are and I'm certain many of them will in fact come out looking just as extravagant and special as they do otherwise. They just have to avoid what we should all avoid, tweeting about boring crap nobody cares about.
I'd want to hear when a celebrity has seen someone sexy on the street (hell, the yellow press would LOVE it) but what they had for dinner is of no interest.
First off, what's the measure of "celebrity"? It would be a difficult rule to implement. Second, I like *my* celebrities (cnet stars, LaPorte, Dvorack, Curry) to boring and human.
@Mark: If what you're saying were true, reality TV wouldn't have been a smash hit.
but it would be great if we get to interact with the celebs…otherwise we cant interact
I think it really depends on the 'celeb'. If they get it and actually engage in 2 way conversation – stephen fry / mc hammer etc i think it is fine, if it is just pr wank – britney spears etc , whihc i fear we will get more of, then I'd be happy to see those banned
The fact I am your 7th comment on this issue while some other blog on this topic may have less comments is one metric to consider popularity. Thus, are you a celebrity?
I don't care who's on Twitter and what they're tweeting, so long as they are authentic.