Here’s a super guest blog by super Amy Grindhouse…
Twitter is to celebrities today what Kabbalah string bracelets were to them five years ago. Over-hyped, over-exposed and over here.
Tweeting, which essentially involves posting short updates about your day, is huge online right now. Both celebrities and regular folks alike are hopping on the bandwagon of the communication tool that is an absolute Facebook killer.
Despite being talked about as often as Paris Hilton‘s love life and experiencing ludicrous growth of some 1,382% year-over-year from February 2008 to February 2009, Twitter is actually being shunned by some entertainers.
Why, you ask. Well, for reasons known only to themselves, not all celebs are accommodating enough to be money-hungry, fame-hungry attention-whores who wish to over-share on every conceivable aspect of their home life.
Word is some stars are rebelling and are saying ‘No’ to Twitter, thus making a statement by not joining in the micro-blogging revolution.
Well, maybe not a revolution, but perhaps one could call it an online coup. Like Twitter is some kind of renegade online force stalking around at night, just waiting for the opportunity to overthrow Facebook. Or perhaps it is just a spotty chav troublemaker spraying graffiti on the walls of MySpace HQ.
In any case Twitter celebrities are managing to annoy people one update at a time.
Whether it is Lily Allen admittedly showing a lapse in judgement and sharing her exact comings and goings on any given day, much to the delight of the waiting paparazzi, or Diddy over-sharing and live-Tweeting his marathon tantric sex sessions, one thing celebs have mastered is the ability to irritate the crap out of people in 140 characters or less.
Some celebrities are more subdued though. Some prefer the art of annoying people on TV and some of the older gang still like to do so via radio.
Two particular names have stepped forward and said that tweeting and all such tweenage shenanigans are not for them. Paul Rudd and Rashida Jones told E! News why they are turning their backs on the phenomena.
?I'm afraid of the Internet. I'm too old to tweet,? said Paul Rudd when E! News caught up with the stars of I Love You, Man at Austin?s South by Southwest Film Festival. ?So I don't tweet.? ?If I didn't talk to you in high school, I don't need to talk to you, you now,? agrees costar Jason Segal. And while some stars will tweet their exact location and invite fans to rub up against them at a bus stop, Office vixen Rashida Jones isn't so hot on the idea, ?I don't need to invite stalkers into my life. I just don't really see the point.?
So there you have it, two less people to bore you with tales of how many sugars they just put in their tea and what time they are going to bed tonight.
Lets hope that either more awesome celebs like MC Hammer keep joining, or the more prolific attention seekers stop hogging up the place and just get lost.
This was a guest blog by the wonderful Amy Grindhouse whose blog you should all visit immediately. Now, brace yourselves for irony…
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