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Hmmm. That looks very much as if it could've come from "Psychiatry for the 21st Century"
... what is the difference between a virtual friend and an imaginary friend?
RogerW | 26.02.09 - 8:20 a.m. | #
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Hmmmmm.
Not sure I agree to be honest. For some, yes, without a doubt the ability to follow 'celebs' on Twitter is some weird form of cachet.
But there is an openness to the medium, which ultimately may reduce their celebrity status?? Dunno.
Think the last line is a little harsh though. I bet they think bloggers are sad deluded lonely geeks as well. 
Gordon | Homepage | 26.02.09 - 8:26 a.m. | #
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I can't help thinking that if people stopped reading twitter streams they'd have time to have their own life. Which would undoutedly be more fulfilling.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 26.02.09 - 8:48 a.m. | #
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I don't see celeb Twitterers as friends. More as new people to insult
Scaryduck | Homepage | 26.02.09 - 8:57 a.m. | #
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No dear. It's time to take your tablets.
Bina | Homepage | 26.02.09 - 9:28 a.m. | #
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Probably better than real life anyway.
Debster | Homepage | 26.02.09 - 11:25 a.m. | #
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Actually, Alan Carr's Twitter stream is the only one I've been tempted to follow. Every tweet's a well-turned little comic gem. He follows NOBODY. He replies to NOBODY. Just like a proper celebrity should do!
mike | Homepage | 26.02.09 - 11:47 a.m. | #
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Living my life without Twitter,
have no celebs as my friends
having my head free of litter
to me - it makes perfect sense.
Pavla | 26.02.09 - 11:49 a.m. | #
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I worry about your choice of friends. Well, Stephen Fry is great, obviously. And I thought Alan Carr was dead?
zed | Homepage | 26.02.09 - 11:59 a.m. | #
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i find twittering an odd habit. seems a bit like enabling a stalker. but then, i find some that twitter to be sad, lonely people deluded into thinking that if anyone follows thier twitter-stream they are no longer alone.
petoskystone | 26.02.09 - 1:22 p.m. | #
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Ummm. For all the bonhomie and gregariousness, and the supposed interest in other people, the thing that comes over most here is the prolific use the word "I".
This isn't about other people at all, is it?
Now you're famous it's simply all "You, you, you"
RogerW | 26.02.09 - 7:44 p.m. | #
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Stephen Fry is on record as regarding most modern verse as "arse-dribble". Just sayin', like.
anne | 26.02.09 - 11:32 p.m. | #
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Many years ago, when the internet was still text-only, email and usenet, I bumped into a celebrity, we exchanged emails, then we met in real life, exchanged various little gifts, and we are still in touch, 10+ years after.
At the time, surfing the "social" part of the internet was like entering a little strange pub in an eccentric countryshire; nowadays it's more like walking the crowded streets of a megamegametropolis. I can't see something similar to my story happening in 2009. A celeb wanting to pay attention to all their internet fans would quickly physically die of information overload.
Barb | Homepage | 28.02.09 - 7:42 p.m. | #
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Does the same apply to those who follow DG on Twitter? I rather think that's the whole point of it. What's a tweet without someone to twitter about it...
rose | 01.03.09 - 4:43 a.m. | #
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