50cent
50 Cent is among the legion of stars who have recently embraced Twitter to reach fans. 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.
"He doesn't actually use Twitter," Mr. Romero said of 50 Cent.
In many cases, celebrities and their handlers have turned to outside writers who keep fans updated on the latest twists and turns, often in the star's own voice.
Britney Spears recently advertised for someone to help, among other things, create content for Twitter and Facebook. Kanye West recently told New York magazine that he has hired two people to update his blog. "It's just like how a designer would work," he said.
As annoying as a few of the most annoying people in Twitter nation are: Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Heidi Montag, PDiddy... at least they're doing their own Tweets.
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March 27th, 2009 3:49 PM
Wow, such an arduous task for some celebs to update and type their own twitters at only 140 CHARACTERS! My Gawd. Such pain, such horror too!
While celebs have rapidly embraced that site, it still underscores a large degree of deceptiveness, laziness and impersonalness that some possess with not updating their twitter pages. Or maybe 50 and some other celebs lack more creativity than we had thought..
March 27th, 2009 5:14 PM
... he seems fairly bright for a rapper. If Diddy can annoy us in person, can 50 cent not put together 140 characters worth of Tweet himself.