Celebrity Twitter On The iPhone

I love celebrities just as much as the next person, so when I joined Twitter, I decided it would be a great idea to follow a bunch of them. Twitter is really convenient, and I can always check on it via my iPhone, making it a fun little activity to keep tabs on people all over the world and what they are doing. Obviously, Twitter is popular for a reason, and so many celebrities have jumped on board because I always hear them promoting themselves to be followed on Twitter every time that they are interviewed.

One specific celebrity that I followed right off the bat was John Mayer, but I have to tell you that I was totally disappointed. Not only are most celebrity tweets very boring, but absolutely no celebrity will ever follow you back. I guess there is no way you should expect that from a celebrity because it is kind of like joining their fan club, and they really don't have the means to follow back all of their fans. Still, this lack of reciprocity got me pretty bored after a while. Maybe if specific celebrities like John Mayer had some amazing things to say other than what awards party they went to, then I would be more interested.

by Jamie

Michael Jackson's Death Affects Twitter

You know that if you are looking for info on anything, then the place to go is Twitter. When the news of the death of Michael Jackson broke out, there were tweets like crazy all about him. So many of the celebrities using Twitter got on board to support his family and tweet that they loved and missed him. Of course, then every other non-celebrity Twitter user in America wanted to add their own two cents and also see what their favorite celebrities that they were following had to say about the tragic news. All of this Michael Jackson related Twitter action actually caused the site to temporarily shut down because of total overload!

There were even so many people searching for Michael Jackson on the Internet to find out about his death that Google temporarily read an error message. Crazy! Obviously, there were even popular Internet blogs that took it too far, like Perez Hilton, who had nasty things to say about Michael Jackson, referring to the fact that he be maybe faking it or making himself sick for attention. Check it out for yourself from Twitter on your iPhone so you can see how many supporters MJ has with the past evidence of the massive Twitter crash in his honor.

by Landon

Twittering Kills Someone?

There is absolutely nothing funny about a teenage girl dying, but the interesting headline that I saw on my iPhone while I was Googling at work was that she was killed by Twittering. This is probably something that Twitter does not want to hear to soil their reputation, but the incident actually went down because she was using her laptop in a bathtub. I think that this is one of those things that they teach you not to do in school, with electrical safety and all, but that was her demise.

Apparently, she had been on Twitter for a long time, and her battery for her laptop started to die. She ended up trying to plug it in with wet hands, and then she dropped the laptop in the bathtub so that she was electrocuted. Yes, all of the social media sites like Twitter and Facebook can be totally addicting, but let's keep them out of dangerous places please! This is just one of the strange stories that will probably become an urban legend relating to social media sites, but it helps to exercise a bit of caution as to when and where you are using your laptop. Let this be a lesson to everyone!

by Annie