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...found out the status of Shaquille O'Neal's thumb surgery, learned Jim Carrey's thoughts about killer whales and caught up with the hectic clubbing schedule of Snooki from Jersey Shore. Sure, I've never met these people in person, but I know all about their lives from Twitter...
Celebrities use Twitter for a variety of reasons. Some promote their projects, some communicate with fans, and some dispel rumors in 140-character press releases. Others just come off as ... lonely. But by broadcasting their thoughts online, stars are brought back down to earth - fast. Twitter allows us to pierce the veil of fame and proves what Us Weekly has been telling us for years. Stars: they're just like us - they go grocery shopping, walk their dogs and often can't spell to save their lives. And sometimes they go a little off the rails. (Courtney Love's ramblings...
...Hollywood trade press this week to highlight the similarities between Avatar's plot - the pristine planet of Pandora, 4.37 light-years away, is imperiled by a rapacious Earthly corporation bent on destructive mining - and environmental hotspots on this planet. The groups have also launched a social media campaign on Twitter and Facebook urging Cameron to talk about Avatar's pro-environment theme at the Oscars. "There are so many situations like what happens in the film happening on planet Earth," says Orli Cotel, deputy communications director for the Sierra Club. "And if it takes Pandora to get people to care...
...magazine covers that can often shape the national debate. But it also incorporates Sarah Palin's Facebook page, the latest Internet attack videos and that e-mail your aunt just sent you. "There is a constant conversation that goes on all day long, through blogs, through cable TV, through Twitter, between reporter, subject and reader," says Pfeiffer, who sits down the hall from the Oval Office. He says his new job is to "make sure we are not getting swallowed up by the swirl...
...voters who got their information online. That there was no proposal for anything that resembled a death panel did not matter; the idea went viral anyway. "The process for covering the President hasn't changed as much as the medium of the media has," explains Gibbs, who recently joined Twitter and promptly earned 34,000 followers. "You have a complete segmentation of the media that you haven't had before." (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...