A tweet on Twitter
Comments(0) You may have noticed that I’ve been twittering [move eyes to right]. I’m amazed at how many people are suddenly using twitter, actually how many ‘famous’ people who you would think had better things to do. Mr and Mrs Ross are there, Mr and Mrs Demi Moore, I’ve just discovered John Cleese, Stephen Fry is Mr. Twitter, and Russell Brand is doing his thing etc etc. I’m thinking around ‘our’ cult of celebrity and I’m thinking if anything is going to normalize our image of famous people it’s got to be reading their tweets.
Footnote: Last week I got an email from my MP saying that she had “launched an online service which will give you an inside view of what I’m up to on a day to day basis”. If she’s doing it herself then she ought to be doing something else and if she isn’t then really it’s not in the spirit of twitter – me thinks the folks at Obama.com have something to answer for.