I had a thought last night…….will Twitter will be the tool that breaks the last decade’s obsession with celebrity gossip?
Like so many obsessions, that of following celebrities’ every supposed move in the press, visiting gossip sites and pouring over papped photos is often fuelled by a desire to feel part of that world.
So if today I can follow @celebrity and hear where they are going tonight/what they are wearing to the Oscars/who is the next guest on their show from the horse’s mouth, why do I need to scour the Internet for rumours? And surely Twitter provides the ultimate fan experience? True two-way conversation…..can that ever live up to expectations?
Moving on a step will the smart celebs post pics themselves using services like Twitpic, thus rendering the papped shots in the next morning’s paper or celebrity website out of date and with less narrative?
Wouldn’t a Twitpic of Sarah Harding hammered outside a club posted on Cheryl Cole’s Twitter account spread far and wide and kill the need for papped shots showing the same? {this is an example – as far as I know they don’t have Twitter accounts…yet}
We’ve been due a backlash on the celebrity obsession trend for a while now, will this be it?
