Twitter, Tweeter, Twatter, Celebrity Fodder
Demi Moore's Backside, Ashton Kutcher's POV
You know how sometimes you are stricken with a brilliant thought only to discover someone's already out-thunk you. Well, that's what happened to me this morning.
Most internet savvy people know about Twitter, or as I like to call it "another time-sucking activity." Essentially Twitter is like micro-blogging, or fortune cookie blogging. You update constantly but say very little. My husband, the incredibly handsome fellow over at Blogcritics (I get cookies for sucking up to him :) began Twittering in earnest a few weeks back and now thinks I need to tweet more often.
So that got me thinking about celebrities and Twittering. As in WHY would a busy celeb want to use a site like Twitter? Aren't they busy doing famous people stuff? You know, shopping, having their pictures taken, getting DUI's, being sluts, etc.? Being the arm chair psychologist I am, I began analyzing the psychology of why a celebrity would want to take the time to inform the world of what they are doing at any given moment, when all they do is bitch about their lack of privacy.
Then it hit me, instant gratification. Celebrities, for the most part do what they do because of an insanely bloated sense of self. They have HUGE egos they must feed everyday, and clearly the army of sycophants tending to their every whim just isn't enough, so now, they have this new tool that allows them to quickly blast off a mini-missive and share with the whole world. And since Hollywood is the new high school, it's all about popularity.
Now before I get too ahead of myself, here's where I was out-thunk. HolyMoly already jumped on this idea and even went one further by coming up with a formula to determine which twittering twat-heads are the most into their own damnselves.
*claps hands, bravo, bravo* More from HolyMoly's post on twats who tweet:
So now Twitter has become as much a part of our lives as bread and masturbation, what have we learnt? Well on one hand we've learnt that lots of people can't spell, that P Diddy has a daily nervous breakdown and that Alan McGee spends a lot of time swimming, eating sushi and trying to get Jonathon Ross to DJ at his club night. I'm not quite sure this is what the inventor of Twitter had in mind. Continued on the next pagePage 1 2
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