Today, I took a look at the site CelebrityTweet which is essentially a Twitter user that just follows celebrities. It appears their definition of a “celebrity” is someone who is famous before and outside of social media. There have become plenty of Twitter celebrities, but these people are actually true celebrities the way we used to define celebrities before the concept of Internet celebrity came about.
I would follow a specific celebrity I was truly interested in, but if you look at this collection of celebrity tweets, I’ve come to the realization that celebrities lead just as boring, or actually more boring lives than my friends lead. Go ahead and try the experiment yourself. Go to Twitter and look at your Twitter feed. And then open up another window and watch the feed of CelebrityTweet. Which one wins on the grounds of most interesting, most entertaining, and most useful?
I bet yours does. But that makes sense because you customized your Twitter list to your taste. Still, if you do want to peer into the mundane life of celebrities that Tweet, check out the list on the CelebrityTweet site (scan down to the lower left) and just selectively choose the celebrities you’re interested in following.
The New York Times today has a story about celebrities that use Twitter.
UPDATE: A bunch of celebrity Twitter accounts get hacked, providing the rest of us with some great 6th grade humor. Kind of surprised there were no fart jokes.
This news item is for the Spark Minute week of 1/5/09 which can be heard daily on Green 960 and 910 KNEW in San Francisco, CA.
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twitter really is boring….I guess if you want to evesdrop in on people its great….I just find what they have to “tweet” about not very interesting anymore
twitter really is boring….I guess if you want to evesdrop in on people its great….I just find what they have to “tweet” about not very interesting anymore
hey who's @jman_updates? it's really bothering me that i don't know who he is, i do know he is a celebrity, but he changed his stuff on his page so we can't guess who he is! i know he's a comedian… can you help me out? he's funny as hell but I'm still curious who he is. thx!
Becca, can't say I know who he is but with just 50+ updates he's already got well over 8000 followers. Pretty impressive.
hey who's @jman_updates? it's really bothering me that i don't know who he is, i do know he is a celebrity, but he changed his stuff on his page so we can't guess who he is! i know he's a comedian… can you help me out? he's funny as hell but I'm still curious who he is. thx!
Becca, can't say I know who he is but with just 50+ updates he's already got well over 8000 followers. Pretty impressive.
Maybe your life is boring? Mine is not.
Maybe your life is boring? Mine is not.
Funny article man! But I think not all people who use Twitter are boring. But still thanks for the share. This one kept me awake.
No, not all the people who are on Twitter are boring. But just because you're a celebrity doesn't mean your tweets are all of a sudden interesting. :)
I found this blog incredibly amusing, as it tickled my funny bone for several reasons. I agree that being a 'celebrity' in this day and age can truly be defined as those who made their names before the social media explosion, and for some reason other than social media itself. But I definitely would not go as far as to say 'celebrities' lead boring lives just like ours, as this would be stretching the truth just to make ourselves feel better. Or perhaps can be attributed to someone in a serious state of denial.
Being a celebrity is a full time job, and even harder in this day and age since social media has been added to the equation. Now they have to progress not just for the profession, entertainment value and their appearance, but also for their strategic mettle online! Or of course, picking the right agents to do so. But at this point with all the WOMMA AND FTC rules, they have to watch out for lawsuits and infringement worries as well.
I wouldn't call private jets boring. Neither would I consider attending the Oscars in Marchesa or Versace Atelier boring. I would not consider being #1 on the Billboard Charts boring, or a whirlwind tour of 23 countries in 6 months boring. Beyond entertainment I would not consider Federer, Nadal or Roddick boring, and definitely not Tiger Woods.
Performance + Pressure + Adrenaline + Reputation + Endorsements + Insecurity + Security + Money + Manolo Blahniks…definitely does not constitute a boring life. But if it makes you feel better to tell yourself that, go ahead. Then again, there is always another life.
My argument is that day-to-day celebrities lives aren't everything you say they are. They're long periods of normal everyday things, and yet because they're celebrities they think everybody would be interested in knowing they just had a glass of juice.
You should check out http://twitterinterest.com