Okay okay, so the title isn’t quite true… Yesterday, Ross Noble got his Twitter followers to “Twitbomb” Duncan Bannatyne’s Twitter account with silly questions and absurd Dragon’s Den proposals, in order to hopefully solicit a humourous response from the surly Scottish businessman. It’s known as “Twitterbombardment” and is a way of brightening up many people’s [...]
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Twit Wars – Duncan Bannatyne shows his sense of humour!
Posted: December 30, 2009 in EntertainmentTags: Bannatyne, comedy, Entertainment, Ross Noble, Twitter
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The power of Twitter in today’s media.
Posted: October 31, 2009 in GeneralTags: Entertainment, media, news, people, press, Twitter
It seems that Twitter has become the latest method of the press and various news outlets to gather stories for their sites and papers. Many news sites have reported on Stephen Fry’s twitter saying he’s thinking of disconnecting from the twitterverse. It’s fair enough for the media to comment on famous people, but really? Twitter? [...]
Famous for being famous – at what price?
Posted: October 25, 2009 in EntertainmentTags: celebrity, Entertainment, fame, obsession, people, reality tv
We live in a very much celebrity-oriented culture nowadays, where children are being shown by television and other media that rather than aiming for good honest professions when they grow up, they can be a “celebrity”. Most people won’t even know why Jordan is famous (she was a page 3 model in her teens, but [...]
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