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Posted on February 14, 2010
Someone in corporate PR’s decidedly not enjoying their Sunday. Yesterday, Kevin Smith started Live-Twittering his experience getting kicked off of a Southwest Airlines flight for being too fat. It was, for the most part, pretty impressive. Update: Southwest responds.
In fact, one can say this is the best thing Kevin Smith’s written since Jay and Silent [...]
Posted on January 18, 2010
Twitter has become a magnet for Hollywood celebrities, which explains why Facebook’s clearly jealous flacks were conducting interviews on the Golden Globe red carpet last night. Next step: Convincing stars like Ricky Gervais that users are worth the trouble.
Twitter makes things easy for an A-lister: Adding “followers” is instant, and posting messages is easy as [...]
Posted on January 9, 2010
Pop and I are down in Pasadena for our annual pilgrimage to the Winter TCA! Our first day has been a blast so far, with CBS, Showtime, and The CW opening up the ceremonies. Stay tuned over the next week for lots of updates on your favorite shows and stars, but for now we’re [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on January 4, 2010
For a former child star, Soleil Moon Frye has done some very impressive networking. Her celebrity buddies in Hollywood have kept the 1980s actress in the media spotlight. But she’s also insinuated herself atop the Silicon Valley power structure.
As TV’s Punky Brewster, Moon Frye was famously ragtag. But her current associates are anything but scruffy. [...]
Posted on November 27, 2009
Jailhouse tweets: harrowing, educational, and a bad idea if you’re dodging the terms of your sentence. In the midst of his prison term for a fatal DUI, Roger Avary blew the whistle on his own short-lived accidental freedom via Twitter.
Since late October, @avary has been tweeting regularly about prison life, referring to himself as #34 [...]
Posted on November 3, 2009
The “lists” feature Twitter just rolled out has been swiftly repurposed by the celebrity-industrial complex to pump up the accounts of tweeters like Ellen DeGeneres. Lists show celebrities exactly who can send them followers. And thus who to spam.
Earlier today, a large number of hard-core Twitter dorks — sorry, “influencers!” — noticed DeGeneres was following [...]
Posted on October 12, 2009
Pee Wee Herman had more than 40,000 followers within 24 hours of joining Twitter. An organic phenomenon? Hardly: He had a PR agency known for its celebrity “Twitter boot camp” on his side. And they taught him some secrets.
Microblogging might seem straightforward enough to your typical Silicon Valley office drone. But Hollywood superstars are used [...]
Posted on September 21, 2009
After partying with his castmates on Friday in Vancouver, Robert Pattinson was up early Saturday to film Eclipse with Peter Facinelli and Ashley Greene. The boys have been doing lots of bonding lately, especially after Robert sent his first and last tweet to celebrate Peter’s reaching a million followers. The Cullen family is all together [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on August 25, 2009
Britney Spears waved to fans as she rode around Manhattan on the top level of a double decker bus yesterday. To gear up for her series of Madison Square Garden shows, which kicked off last night, she had some fun with her Twitter followers yesterday. She hid a set of tickets at the M&M’s store [...]
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