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Are Celebrities Causing Twitter to Evolve or Devolve?
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51 Comments
When people watch Oprah on
When people watch Oprah on TV they don't get to interact with her. Twitter is just an extension of her show to some extend. Of course it's mostly PR. But if you get a kick out of following a celebrity that's OK. Different strokes for different folks is what I say.
This is absolutely not an
This is absolutely not an issue no matter it's twitter or any other social networking sites. In short, no big deal if they don't follow anybody. Anyways, celebrities open twitter accounts to benefit their career. Nothing more than that.
it had to be heard
Neville Hobson says it rightly
annoyed celebs dont write back!!!!!!!!!!!
Is it enough to have celebs on yer myspace as yer friends....I am starting to wonder!
Okay so you are so excited when they except you as a friend but they don't even write you back! Not on your comments to them, not on the messages and not a reply at all...so the real question is "do they care"? I really dont know! I get these messages hey add me to your twitter and no personal thank you or I don't have the time to write you back because I am touring......So here is my message to every celeb out there....DON'T FORGET ABOUT YOUR FANS, IF WE ADD YOU TO OUR PAGES WE DO EXPECT A REPLY AFTER ALL WE ARE YOUR FANS AND WE HELP MAKE YOU AND WE CAN SURE HELP BREAK YOU!
Twitter
First of all, I don't have a twitter and don't plan on signing up for one. I use Facebook and Myspace and that is enough. I signed up for those because I was looking for some of my High School friends. All of the reunion.com's are now a paid membership and I am not paying for that.
Now to answer the question. I have a few celebs on FB and MS. Granted they are professional athletes. They interact and even chat with me from time to time. The other celebs are music artist and I have one that will email and very rarely chat with me. Updating your FB or MS is very time consuming and most do not have time to mess with this. For me, I do not add people just to add so I can say wow, I have XXXX amount of friends. That is not why I signed up for this type of site. I have friends that do that very thing and they boast about it.
So I say, Twitter is becoming a PR service for the celebs. Their agents are the ones that run their sites. I would be very surprised if Oprah actually operated her Twitter site. I am sure it is one of her paid staff and if there is anything of interest they print it out so she can see the material and air it on the show for popularity. Why not? Twitter is free. Even the News agencies are now saying catch us on twitter. Daytime talk shows are saying, "Tweet us and tell us what you think." Which I think is great...a way to express yourself. But to add people just to add for a popularity contest, I hate it. It will be the downfall.
Celeb Tweets
I don't see a whole lot of interaction with fans from any one celebrity. It gives me the feeling that most of the celebs are on their own frequency above all the "ordinary people". I don't particularly like that. Twitter was created for the internet user so all users should use it, but it should be a level playing field. In my opinion.
If there were no fans, there would be no celebrities, so before the beautiful people start separating themselves from everyone else-cyberwise-they need to remember why they are who they are. It's not like they're being mauled on the street, they can log off anytime they want.
If celebs just want to twitter only with their colleagues, and not be "annoyed" by fans then someone should get started on the Glitter Twitter site, just for the rich and famous.
Celebrities and the intent on Twitter.
I think it is just another example of celebrity PR and come uppance with other celebrities. I seriously doubt celebrity twitter accounts have anything to do with fans, more likely that this is a competition between celebs to see who can get the most followers. Me, I'm not following any of them.
I DONT THINK SO!
Celebrities are indeed busy and I don't think they are going to spend time updating there account!
Celebrity Twitter
Twitter is a narcissist's playground and I would certainly say that celebrities in general, possess a higher level of narcissm than the rest of us. Check out http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1551580/twitter_a_narcissists_b...
It's cool that at least some
It's cool that at least some Clebs are responding to fans in this manner because we can see then interacting with people which gives us an interesting side to this people's lives.
Twitter gets lucky - good for them
Well Twitter has caught on and with all the publicity they can evolve into something more and benefit from it. If you had celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, Jimmy Fallon, and Oprah all on your site, and confirmed Arnold Schwarzenegger, MC Hammer, and Britney Spears all where logging on even if time to time, what an endorsement.
Makes me want to tweet
David
You were an autograph
You were an autograph collector & "this constant fascination with celebrity lifestyle just doesn't make sense" to you?
same tired argument by
same tired argument by someone who doesn't get twitter and has to make other people feel bad for using it. Lame.
Don't follow those that are not following you.
I use twitter. Usually I go through my following account once and awhile. I unfollow those that are not following me.
What has this got to do with it? I found that, like people who aren't following you, following celebrities is a waste of your twitter space. Why follow someone who is not listening to you? Though most celebrities don't, there are a few who will follow you for a short time before they cut you lose. I'd only advise following celebrities if you want updates on what they are doing day after day. I haven't found any that will return your replies. And if you think about it, it's understandable because they are probably receiving thousands of replies and DM's a day. Who can read them all. They're celebrities not superheros.
Twitter has some very useful applications. I don't think we've discovered exactly what all of them are yet. Stalking your favorite celebrities shouldn't be one of them.
Does it Matter?
For the most part all social networking sites and services
are used for self promotion, for the famous, near famous,
wannabes, corporations and the rest of us.
We live in an age where everyone is talking and no
one is listening. These are novelties that will be
replaced by the next tool of meaningless information.
The answer from title is
The answer from title is yes.....
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I think celebs are attracting more followers, but are not adding any good or informative tweets to twitter.
I agree that most celebs are on twitter just for the PR and ego boost.
I try to follow those that really interest me or have something in common.
Good article!
Twitter Misused
I think Twitter is completly missued by celebs. Most celebs us it as a defacto fan club rather than the purpose for which it was meant, that being the dissemination of relevent information. Who really wants to receive a tweet from your fav celeb letting you know they just visited the bathroom!
better or not
No opinion on whether celebrities are helping or not, but what we do know is that they are definitely bringing more attention to Twitter at the moment. Who knows what may happen to Twitter in the long term. Twitter may be the biggest fad right now or the hottest idea to hit the internet this decade.
Regarding celebrities and their lack of followings, it makes sense. Celebrities, like Oprah, are usually way too busy to follow 100's or 1000's of people on Twitter so they are going to be more choosy about who they follow.
Read my blog post about Twitter: http://www.liveambitions.com/business/is-twitter-just-a-fad/
Why should Oprah follow random people?
I don't understand why you should feel obliged to follow people on twitter just because they follow you. (Celebrity or otherwise.) Just because someone wants to follow you, it doesn't mean you will want to follow them. Oprah doesn't care what each of her fans are twittering about. If you are going to actually read your twitter feed then you have to have some discretion over who you are following, to avoid it becoming a irrelevant stream of nonsense from random people.
Whose Sandwich Is more important
From what I gather here some think Opra talking about her sandwich is less boring than some other. If such insipid uses evolve from the tools then the fools that use them will fund the more important facets this presents.
An incredible tool for control I would say.
two way communication
It doesn't seem like Twitter has been around long enough to accuse it of once being about two way versus one way communication. At least the stars have something mildly interesting to say once in a while ("I'm back in rehab"). Most tweets I read from my friends (god bless 'em) are completely boring messages of no interest whatsoever. "Picked up my kids from lacrosse," "ate a bagel," yadda yadda yadda. My advice for Tweeters: if you life isn't as exciting as Oprah's... 1) join a mercenary group and tell us the nitty gritty; 2) have an affair with a deadly blonde who decides to stalk and kill you; 3) or just find something spicy to lie about!
Celeb twitter
Of course the celebrities cannot follow that many - it's not their job either. When you are a "famous" person, people are naturally looking to follow you, and this way the celebs have their own - instant - pipeline for news and updates outside the normal mass media - that is amazing and it will change the power of the media over celebs...
Celebrity Twitters
Some of the few celebrities we follow on twitter are actively interacting with their fan base and when you read their posts it makes you realise that they are just ordinary people too. things such as what they are about to watch on T.V. and what they had for breakfast etc.
I think personally it is up to the individual twitter on what kind of celebrity they want to follow. a down to earth normal person or a prima donna. I know which ones I like best !
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Twittering
I don't feel celebrities add to Twitter since they don't respond to Tweets from others, their Tweets are typically dull and/or related upcoming programs or projects.
I have a Twitter account but don't see where it helps me or anyone else, except the celebrities. I believe most regular folks don't care what's going on at "XYZ Travel; The Quilting Diva; Sky Diving Champ, etc." but, as is proven by the many programs and magazines dedicated to watching celebrities, celebrities get more viewing.
Ultimately, I hope Twitter evolves into something more 'down to earth' 'or' a way you could really get a response from celebrities; perhaps limit amounts of Tweets per person.
Just my humble opinio.
Twitter can't handle simple customer service issues
For more than a month now anyone who trys to join twitter and put up a profile pic or background pic is out of luck. Twitter has an automatic response when you place a ticket with them sure, it acknowledges the glitch but has done nothing to fix it. Here we are more than a month later with no change. People join twitter to also post, many more are professionals in their field who need to be photo ID to avoid the squatters that pretend to be you. I find it interesting that any of the big name celebs who have joined in the last month have had no problem with their pic but the rest of us slobs get nothing. There are hundreds of posts on twitter from new members about this. We all have been ignored. Many in my profession and just about everyone on the posted complaint list on twitter are looking elsewhere for a more reliable network like twitter.
We can't wait.
I like celebrities on Tweeter
I like to follow celebrities. Infact i love to see their tweets . Dont matter much to me if they reply to their fans or not , afterall he/she is a celebrity and you could never expect them to say hi to you personally every morning.
Catching their tweets is better than on their blogs/sites. You are getting realtime tweets , u know they are online that makes a good feeling like they are with you.
exactly! it doesn't matter
exactly! it doesn't matter if i'll receive a vice-versa benefit, i would expect it would come because that's a fact... They're celebrity and they don't know you but we know them.. :)
Let Celebrities Follow You!
Celebrities neither follow you nor tweet. They just are into Twitter to satisfy their egos. Moreover, they should understand it's no running race nor popularity contest on Twitter. I have found only Mr Barack Obama following me back though I am sure the President will not spend his valuable time twittering!
two way conversations.
I use twitter to comment on things that interest me, and I follow people that say things that I want to know about. If all we used twitter for, was to converse back and forth with people we know, we can IM on Hotmail. If a star has something to say, ( doubt very seriously if Oprah herself gets on twitter and responds to anyone, other than her personal friends...as I imagine her staff does it.)...I would follow it, if I was interested. I also use it to promote my site, and I have to assume that the people that follow me, are interested in the Criminal Justice system in America. and I know they aren't Liberal, Democrats because I'm very Conservative, not extremely REpublican, but in the face of the options....of course, I am Republican. .....I guess I'm saying that if our person blathering bothers some twitterers, they might consider going back to IM to converse with the people they like.
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