Celebrity Tweets Bring Them Near Us

What’s the fastest means to know what’s happening in a Bollywood celeb’s life? Google fans will surely say Google up, you’ll come to know!! TV fans won’t miss a single chance of praising the TV channels and their efforts, after all they can’t miss watching TV, and if praising lets them watch more, that’s a real gain for them, isn’t it!!

But do the TV channels or online news sites really get you the most current of the happenings? Media can approach a star either before or after a particular show and they can reach them even when the show is on but will they reach them when they are resting in the green rooms and are not ready to face the media? Surely they can’t but of course you can!!

You can reach a Bollywood star’s green room, even his drawing room, and even when they are holidaying in some private islands and that too without actually going there! Well, this is possible because they are really ready to meet you, tell you what they are doing, share what they feel, and because they are always tweeting!

So Shahrukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, and Shahid Kapoor were at the Twenty-Twenty Cricket Match in Durban that took place between South Africa and India and their mesmerizing performances made their fans go really happy, snappy, and exuberantly lost in the cricket fever by their superbly scintillating performances!!

Of course, Google have got you all the latest information, even the best of the pics directly from the show, and the news sites would have got you all the latest updates from the show and the match and you’d be able to check out the stars’ interview from the TV channels too but how about getting the personal presence felt? How about knowing how the stars felt after the show, perhaps when they were at home, the media wasn’t present, and no interviewer was around? Now this kind of intimacy with the stars can’t be imagined without their presence on Twitter. Just a little tweet tells more about a celebrity than anyone else.

The stars were really excited about the show to be held in Durban, this is what one of the Shahid’s tweets suggests, “So heading to south Africa for a show… Love the audience there… Love live concerts..” Perhaps he tweeted this on his way to the concert, when there wasn’t anyone around to take his interview!

The show went superb, but weren’t the stars exhausted? Well, they aren’t supermen or spidermen they would have definitely! But how would you know? Simple read their tweets and know when they are genuinely sad, happy, angry and tired. Their exhaustion was revealed by Shahid’s another tweet, “Blown…. Half asleep.. Heading back homie… 50 thousand people at the mosis mabida stadium.. Loved it”

It is really undeniable that celebrity tweets do bring them near, indeed nearer than they are brought by TV channels or any other media!

Twitter Highlights of Politically Incorrect Tinsel Town Stars

Just 140 characters at a time and that is what all you need to be in the limelight of 21^st century.

Box office is not sparkling too much as big budget movies like Guzaarish, Kites and Raavan had fallen disastrously on big screen. But in spite if this autumn the stars are shinning bright with secret tattles and spilling the beans on Twitter and television shows.

Bollywood Celebrities On Twitter

Though the onscreen spirits were less high and lacked spice in 2010 but the micro blogging site Twitter was gleaming smart with top highlights, hearty feelings and grudging comments. From oldies of Bollywood to budding newbies …all are set on Twitter with overwhelming to sarcastic comments and from promoting their films to blaming the editors for the fall of film.

Walking the trace line of ‘any publicity is good publicity’, stars are overly prepared to comment anything and everything out crying controversial statements and going public to shout their grievances in just minimum sentences through Twitter.

The coolest way to connect with fans and friends, Twitter is becoming a hot favorite place to showcase the triumphs plus promoting films and the attached contentions. Few among them was the clash between 3Idiots’ producers and Chetan Bhagat for the diminished credit given to the writer for the movie and that really made him upset.

Previous to that was Shahrukh’s airport detention incident in United States dominated the Twitter highlights and thereafter in 2010 it continued when Shiv Sena threatened the release of much awaited movie crafted on the theme of 26/11 – My Name is Khan.

Where microblogging is taking over the stars…the twittering funda is becoming a war zone of celebrities. The ShiveSena-MNIK controversy, clashes between Shobha De, Punit and Sonam Kapoor, gaga of the sizzling chemistry between Hrithik Roshan and Barbara Mori in spite of Kites falling down in the air, break up of Deepika Padukone and Ranbeer Kapoor, all are the hot trending topics of Twitter with spicy tweets gathering up together to entertain common men but the most profitable part is that the website is gaining popularity worldwide.

So keep tweeting guys….after all we can enjoy the celebrity spark and zest off screen too!

Twitter – An Important Part of Today’s Electoral Strategies

Election is the time when politicians are ready to do anything and everything. Politicians know it quite well that popularity is the first and foremost factor that makes them succeed in the elections. It’s true that present day politicians have better options than what the politicians of the yester years had. Moreover, they are adept enough not to miss even a single opportunity by which they can reach the voters and influence them. Be it the present day’s social media sites like Facebook and Twitter; or be it posters, pamphlets, and landline phones of the past.

Politicians On Twitter

The recent U.S. election, held in October this year, can be taken as a representation of this political strategy for influencing the voters. Republicans and the Democrats both were found using all possible tactics to reach the potential voters. Traditional method of pamphlets, posters and the landline telephones were all used in the election campaign along with the technically more sophisticated online social media networks.

Those who couldn’t be reached by tweeting were contacted by emailing, and the ones who were not so internet savvy were interacted by the landline telephones, which can now be considered as the great grand father of today’s smart phones! It was found that people who were too busy to visit Facebook or Twitter did check their mails, thus campaigning was done via emails. And the older generation say above 45 years were found more comfortable with conventional phones i.e. landline telephones.

But at the same time, the social media sites were found more profitable in reaching the younger potential voters. Again, the younger generation was easily reachable by calling on their cellphones where as the older generation could be reached by using the landline phones. The main aim of the politicians is to influence people and earn votes from them and to fulfill this aim they need to be in the comfort zones of the potential voters, and it hardly matters to them by what means they enter their comfort zones and take the voters into their confidence.

Now since Indian citizens too are getting internet savvier, the Indian politicians too have started using the social media networks for their election campaigns. They too ask the voters to support them, keep updating their supporters about the latest electoral moves, and say thanks to the supporters, etc. Meera Sanyal is one such Indian politician who was quite active on Twitter during the elections in April 2009. Perhaps the future of Indian elections too lies in social networking as lots of politicians or the political party members are busy joining such sites these days!