Twitter, Now With Real Celebrities
There's a new trend on Twitter in which celebrities post photos of themselves holding a piece of paper with their Twitter address written down. You know, to prove that it's really their Twitter account. (Phew, no more fake Dannys DeVito!) I guess that makes sense. Being a celebrity is pretty hard. People always signing up under your name to post terrible 140-character jokes as if they were your character in Ruthless People. "Throw Mama from This Monorail #unnecessaryremakes." And the like.
I don't know why this is so funny to me. It just seems like there has got to be a better way. It's as if the celebrities are holding up a copy of today's newspaper to prove that their time machine really works. Also, to whom are they trying to prove that this is their real Twitter? Because the success of fake Twitters proves that people don't care. They just want to read something that seems at least slightly plausible to have been written by a person that which and also in addition to they seened on the TV.
Check out Leighton Meester:
"I was just being chauffeured around town and I thought 'what better time to reach out to my fans via the micro-blogging network than right now, being chauffeured around town.' It's really me, you guys. You can tell by how ridiculous and poorly thought out this whole thing is."
It's actually kind of weird that celebrities want credit for their Twitters at all. Isn't it pretty widely understood that Twitter is the worst? And don't celebrities live in the hellish glare of constant invasive attention? If anything, you'd think they might want a tiny corner of their lives to be anonymous and un-analyzed. Somewhere they can really just be themselves. You know, like, @DonnyBeBito. Or @LeightonDeester. @BrodPatt, @CharlieTherod, @BilbertBodfried, @Mo'niqua, @SamuelRJacksom, @MegomFax, @PenelopeCrux, @StefanSpellbarg. The list goes on.
Posted by Gabe at 11:30 AM in WebJunk
Tags: Danny DeVito | Leighton Meester | Twitter
DeVito looks sexier every time I see him.
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and more relevant.
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please explain your icon-photo
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it's me. it's a photo of me walking down the street in london last summer, out on the town, looking for cheeseburgers or george michael naked in sloan square. see how i'm strutting? it was a fine day.
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Snopes has a page dedicated to it!
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as sexy as that wonderful old man on youtube. as sexy as a sex offender.
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as in I bet he just loves 30 Rock.
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I'm following Henry VIII on twitter. Something tells me it's not really him.
And anyone with a computer could tweak these pics to verify the authenticity of a fake twitter account... rending this entire trend even more pointless than we already knew it was.
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Why are the old people SO into this?
Why does anyone care about the meaningless details of our lives?
Isn't there some stuff better left unsaid? Or just posted to videogum?
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Not true!
On an unrelated note, Leighton changed her twitter account:
"FoLlOw mE!!!1"
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photoshop would make it pretty easy to insert a fake account onto their sign in the picture. would anyone bother to do this? sadly, i think they would.
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So that’s what Leighton Meester looks like when she’s not being filmed having sex. Huh.
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Twitter's beta testing a verified account thing : http://twitter.com/help/verified for "people who deal with impersonation or identity confusion on a regular basis." I didn't know "celebrity" was spelt with a dozen separate words.
I guess Leighton and Danny are acting out because they didn't get chosen for beta testing. Just a coupla kids, trying to prove they're good enough for a blue check mark on their sidebar.
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DeVito looks like he's gooned on Limoncello again in that pic. Keep away from Rosie O'Donnell's lap, Danny. I saw a Letterman appearance with him one time and he told the funniest story about losing his swimming trunks in Hawaii. He said he got sucked out by a big wave and had to fight with everything he had not to drown. When he finally made it back to shore he didn't realize that the wave took his trunks and he was standing around with his dingus out in front of a bunch of people.
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I just read that Twitter makes you stupid and that Facebook makes you smarter. Maybe thats what is happening to these people!
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the celebrity twitterers can get a bit annoying... its the videogummers that i follow that i enjoy the most!
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The only good thing about Twiitering celebrities is that it is undeniable proof that they really are that boring and pointless. Way to go celebs!
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I just want some affirmation that the Sexy_Milf that follows me is indeed the Sexy_Milf.
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So long as we're talking about Twitter, I invite you all to follow me, the one and only Ron Jenkins, on Twitter: http://twitter.com/videogum
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Well.... I just want them to be at least a good imitation...it's a dead give away when a funny person isn't funny enough in their posts...
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The more I look at that picture of Danny DeVito, the more blurred the line between hilarious and horrifying becomes.
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Wait, I might not be following the real Georges Bataille?! Say it ain't so!
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Why isn't Devito wearing a blouse?
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I prefer Ted Leo's method. He talks to @teddleo and even encourages people to follow him.
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I genuinely miss twitter.com/cwalken... so much joy in such tiny nuggets.
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fret not, my little chickadee! http://twitter.com/formerlycwalken it's less frequent, but still existent.
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the world makes sense once again. thanks bird!
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Tbh, "celebrities" are my favorite thing about Twitter.
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@DabeGelahaye
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