Sunday, June 28, 2009

Announcements via Twitter...

These past few weeks Twitter has become relevant. Specially with all that was going on in Iran. Now, it seems, you learn from people that has died in Twitter first. Meghan McCain commented that many people learned about Michael Jackson from her first than from CNN.
This morning everybody was commenting on Billy Mays' death. Hmm I said to myself, well but who is he?
I went to the fountain of wisdom, Wikipedia, and seeing his picutres realized I knew who he was, who doesn't? The interesting part was that his son announced his death in Twitter. There was word that Billy Mays had been in an airplane yesterday. The tires of this US Airways airplane blew off when it landed. And if you go to his Twitter page, there it is... some of his last words about that close call. I found it first in Twitter, went to the Huffington Post and it was not there yet.

Also it seems that teen stars (or any star) don't need their publicists anymore, they promote their concerts, their new singles, albums, etc, in Twitter. Interesting trend.

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