What's up with celebrities and Twitter / Facebook?

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Posted by WittyHandle on Jul-09-2010 18:55:

What's up with celebrities and Twitter / Facebook?

I'm usually pretty good at figuring out motives, but there's one I don't get yet. Why do celebs put up generic questions on Twitter & Facebook that are obviously designed to just get massive responses? Like "What are you doing this weekend" or "What are you having for dinner?". Are they just trying to seem interested in order to appease their fans and garner more support in upcoming projects? That seems the most likely, but I feel like there's something more to it. Any ideas?

Posted by LAdazeNYnights on Jul-09-2010 18:57:

it's so they can read through all the responses and feel really good about themselves - given their weekend plans and their dinner plans hahahaha

Posted by WittyHandle on Jul-09-2010 18:59:

"Muaha ha ha ha, feeble peasants! It seems that Joey Paradopolous is dining on Kraft mac & cheese tonight... That will make my bacon wrapped Asian prostitute meal all the more tasty.. MUAHAHAHA!"

Posted by euphoria on Jul-09-2010 19:00:

Attention whores

Posted by LeopoldStotch on Jul-09-2010 19:00:

i think it's more of a psychological thing where the celebrity feels he/she can get in touch with his/her fans by asking a generic fans like that to give the fans a feeling the celebrity is actually his/her friend. i sense it as more of a scheme to have the fans think the celebrity is "cool","in touch with his/her fans", and "well grounded and knows who the real fans are". pretty lame if you ask me.

Posted by WittyHandle on Jul-09-2010 19:01:

quote:
Originally posted by euphoria
Attention whores

I really think there's more of a marketing angle to it though.

Posted by euphoria on Jul-09-2010 19:03:

quote:
Originally posted by WittyHandle
I really think there's more of a marketing angle to it though.

It pays to be an attention whore when you are a celebrity

Posted by KilldaDJ on Jul-09-2010 19:07:

macncheese bleugh.

Posted by Banora on Jul-09-2010 19:36:

Re: What's up with celebrities and Twitter / Facebook?

quote:
Originally posted by WittyHandle
Are they just trying to seem interested in order to appease their fans and garner more support in upcoming projects?

Pretty much this.

Posted by leph555 on Jul-09-2010 20:25:

They are just trying to get the fans to think that they care about them, and in return the fans will support them in anything they do

Posted by chimera66 on Jul-09-2010 20:28:

honestly sometimes i think it's because they are on the road, bored waiting for their flight or something and don't have shit else to do so they go through the responses to amuse themselves for 10min. some people you can tell are just addicted to twitter/fb

Posted by Ian on Jul-09-2010 20:40:

twitter is good for seeing convos between producers/djs you like, and sportsmen/tv people who are good at their job, getting insights into what they're upto & things you don't always see. I think when used properly it's actually quite good. btw. @bas offers blowjob to fernando torres if spain win wc 2010 ^_^

Posted by Blake on Jul-10-2010 00:49:

They probably pay someone to post updates their twitter etc.

Posted by WittyHandle on Jul-10-2010 00:52:

Some celebs do that, but many are genuine. I think that's more the case with fan pages that someone else runs it for them.

Posted by Ash Parajuli on Jul-10-2010 03:06:

i just use it to stalk DJs

Posted by we_R_DNA on Jul-10-2010 07:09:

Re: What's up with celebrities and Twitter / Facebook?

quote:
Originally posted by WittyHandle
I'm usually pretty good at figuring out motives, but there's one I don't get yet. Why do celebs put up generic questions on Twitter & Facebook that are obviously designed to just get massive responses? Like "What are you doing this weekend" or "What are you having for dinner?". Are they just trying to seem interested in order to appease their fans and garner more support in upcoming projects? That seems the most likely, but I feel like there's something more to it. Any ideas?

Posted by st3nc on Jul-10-2010 07:11:

i only read the last post and i dont click shite youtube links

tl'dr