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Are Celebrity "Tweets" Real? It All Depends on the Meaning of "Real"

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Some celebrities have ghostwriters for Twitter

Our own Will Smith uses Twitter to announce new articles and content on Maximum PC, my wife and I use Twitter to keep track of our kids and their friends, and "Britney Spears" uses it to entertain and inform her fans. Why the quote marks? A weekend article in The New York Times reveals what Cnet says "we all sort of knew already" - Twitter is full of ghostwritten entries.

Some of the sports figures, celebrities, and politicians who use ghostwriters on Twitter and other Web 2.0 social network sites include Britney Spears (although her staff is now signing their own entries), 50 Cent, Candidate/President Barack Obama, Kanye West, Ron Paul, and others. However, the Times also gives credit where due to to celebrities who write their own tweets like Shaquille O'Neal and Lance Armstrong (who one-handed a recent tweet about breaking his collarbone).

How do you feel about ghosted entries on Twitter, Facebook, or other social networking sites? Would you be interested in being hired to ghostwrite? Hit Comment yourself (no ghostwritten entries, please) and tell us what you, yourself, really think.

Twitter logo courtesy of Techshout.com.
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avatarWho really cares anyway? I

Who really cares anyway? I mean they use a toilet like everyone else and their poop stinks like yours. They just got good jobs. They follow direction really well.

Actors are just that. Just actors. Only actors. It's the director and producers and writers that devote their time and energy and creativity to making a movie. If it were all about the actors then there would be no need to film the same scene over and over again until the director is happy with what he gets.

Actors are over rated to the tenth degree. When a movie comes out the actors get all the glory when in reality actors give a minimum to the creative process of making the movie. The people that derserve the glory and notoriaty would be the writers and then the directors/producers and finally the actors.

So I could care less about actors. I don't worship them or go crazy when I meet them in public and I have. I tell them the same thing I told Mike Tyson I just don't care. I have my own life to live.

I owe my view of actors to a book I read by William Shatner. 

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avatarYou mean it's not real???

Pretty funny really, that the Hollywood and Washington elite can't be bothered to grace us all with their own morsels of wisdom.  I mean after all--who are WE? 

Oh wait, we're the ones that keep em in business....

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avatarMar Hoppus and Travis Barker

Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker are on twitter and based on the posts and twit pics... I think they are real and legit.

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avatarThey also don't write their

They also don't write their own press releases, movie scrips, or songs, so I guess it's not terribly surprising. 

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avatarMost of the porn star tweets

Most of the porn star tweets seem real.  Questlove of the Roots is real too.  You can't ghostwrite the stuff he tweets.

"Ass so fat that you can see it from the front" -- Mos Def

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avatarfigures

 I figured that some "famous" twitter users would use a Ghostwriter, however some are just too weird that they almost have to be real. Like Weird Al Yankovic, and Christopher Walken.

 But as long as the information is true, I could care less.

 

-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-

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avatarChristopher Walken is

Christopher Walken is hysterical, I love that guy.  I don't care if he's the 'real' one or not, he's pure comedy gold.

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avatarNekoLLX would like to inform

NekoLLX would like to inform NekoLLX's fans that NekoLLX, never uses ghostwriters.

 

-Al...NekoLLX 

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avatarWho is NekoLLX? And I don't

Who is NekoLLX? And I don't use ghost writers either. If I did I would fire them for crappy grammar an stuff like tat.

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