Mar 24th, 2009
celebrity twittering
Last time I checked my e-mails at hotmail, I found interesting “news” when I logged out.
Ashton Kutcher, posted a picture on his Twitter page (twitter.com/aplusk), where Demi Moore’s bottom in a white knickers can be seen. They were at the wedding of Bruce Willis in the Caribbean and Demi straighten Aston’s suit while wearing a bikini.
His comment on this picture: ‘Shhh, don’t tell wifey.’
As I’ve seen this; I thought it it can’t be real. Somebody is just joking and this picture doesn’t show Demi Moore. And I couldn’t believe that celebrities spend their time twittering. But I was curious and did some research.
I found so many celebrities, which have a twitter account. Some examples are:
Jimmy Fallon
Former Vice President Al Gore
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
Britney Spears
Jon Favreau
Coldplay
John Mayer
Billy Bush
Shaquille O’Neal
Mischa Barton
Jamie Oliver
Lance Armstrong
Lily Allen
Katy Perry
John Cleese
Lindsay Lohan
and many more…
And another person who is apparently also twittering is… you can’t imagine… the queen.
A Westminster Abbey spokeswoman said:
“We’ve got a new web manager in her 20s who is very up to date and it was her idea to start ‘twittering’.
“The impetus behind the idea was we thought it would be a really good way to reach out to a new audience.
“It’s just another tool in terms of getting people interested in the Commonwealth Observance.”
As it serves a purpose for the queen I think as well for the celebrities above, twitter is a good tool to get in contact with their fans and as well to promote themselves. They can choose when and if they want to be in contact with fans and as well it is a possibility to be in contact within a certain distance and without being in a situation of getting overrunned by screaming teenagers or nerving paparazzi.
But I found as well some information about hacked or faked accounts, which are these of Miley Cirus, Barack Obama, Ewan McGregors. This shows that the people behind such accounts are not necessarily these which were assumed to be. And it can have a negative impact on the people’s reputation; due to the fact that faked messages were send in the name of celebrities.
You want to know how the story of Ashton and Demi ends?
Demi posted back, ‘He is such a sneak and while I was steaming his suit too!’
I agree with you Theresa that a lot of celebrities create accounts to have a contact with their people and usually these accounts are created by their PR consultants and so they get their impact to public. On the other hand some hackers create accounts in ordrer to damage these people reputation but this is one of the drawbacks of social media!
I love the fact that the queen is now tweeting! Im going to start following her immediately.
I was reading an article the other day in PR Week about hackers pretending to be CEOs of companies on Twitter and really trying to damage their reputation. This is something that PRs should be aware of. As Andrea said this is one of the dangers of social media.
Twitter raises its fair share of ethical issues, as does any social media platform.
You can pretend to be anyone: companies can pose as consumer evangelists and big up their brand and people can pose as others and ruin their reputation.
For celebrities, twitter is great for promotion and interaction, but I wonder how many are doing it for these reasons. Ego feeding is my gut reaction to most celeb twitterers, but then I’m a bit of a cynic.
It’ll be interested to see how many of them continue to see the value of twitter when it stops being the hip thing to do.
I have noticed more and more celebrities using it and making sure we know its them and not some ‘fake’. Magazines are even publishing the real ones so people now know who are the ones to add and who aren’t. There is the danger of course that the people will be the wrong ones and be going out there to do damage. But like the others have said this is always a problem with social networking sites.