Friday, March 27, 2009

For the love of God.....

Twitter, Twitter, Twitter. You little 140 character word vomiter you. You're taking off, everyone loves you, and everyone wants to be a part of you, especially those in the entertainment industry. But of course this is America and it turns out that celebrities can't even be bothered to type in the most mundane details of their lives anymore. They have to hire ghost writers for their Twitter posts. Ghost writers for a 140 character blurb. I hate this country.
The rapper 50 Cent is among the legion of stars who have recently embraced Twitter to reach fans who crave near-continuous access to their lives and thoughts. On March 1, he shared this insight with the more than 200,000 people who follow him: “My ambition leads me through a tunnel that never ends.”

Those were 50 Cent’s words, but it was not exactly him tweeting. Rather, it was Chris Romero, known as Broadway, the director of the rapper’s Web empire, who typed in those words after reading them in an interview.
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But someone has to do all that writing, even if each entry is barely a sentence long. In many cases, celebrities and their handlers have turned to outside writers — ghost Twitterers, if you will — who keep fans updated on the latest twists and turns, often in the star’s own voice.
At the very least it's a new employment opportunity during these harsh times. Plus if you get this job and then everyone finds out you're the guy behind Kanye's Twitter, there's a 50/50 shot you'll be more respected than Hemingway in today's culture.

Among the many shocking revelations in this explosive article that shatters our perceptions of reality there is one reassurance: THE_REAL_SHAQ is really Shaq and he doesn't have any damn assistants doing it for him. Praise Jesus, I don't know what I would have done if I found out the daily "RANDOM ACTS OF SHAQNESS" were phony. At least there's one man staying true to the people.

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