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Did you know Leonardo DiCaprio is on Twitter? Ah lovely Leo...sigh. A heartthrob to millions of women for his role in "Titantic," and now a truly accomplished actor with a fine record of work on his resume including "Revolutionary Road," "The Departed," and "Blood Diamond."
Who wouldn't want to read every Twitter tidbit that materialized from Leo's lilting keyboard? I had the honor of tweeting with him myself last week:
There's only one problem...LeoDiCaprio1 is a fake. How do I know this? Two reasons.
First of all he sounded fake. Even though his profile links to a Leonardo DiCaprio website the way he wrote simply didn't sound authentic. The other reason, a real Twitter celebrity, from the literary world, told me so.
Joe Finder is the author of several New York Times bestselling thrillers. He's also on Twitter. After reading the above conversation I had with Leo, Joe emailed me and told me he knows the woman who runs Leonardo DiCaprio's production company, Appian Way and she assured him that the real Leo is not on Twitter.
A recent convert to Twitter, Mr. Finder has discovered how addictive Twitter can be. After turning up his nose at the great unwashed tweeting masses, he posted his first tweet recently and hasn't left his keyboard since. He describes his obsession in a post on his website:
My editor and my assistant both tried to stop me, but it was too late. As readers know, I'm a gadget guy, and I love new technology. Two weeks into this, I've already developed a following (everybody develops their own following; it's not like I've gone all Hollywood on you), and my followers post all kinds of fascinating stuff - about books and bookselling, journalism, movies and TV shows. One of them even got me to start watching "American Idol" against my will! Honestly, no hype, I think we're witnessing the birth of an entirely new type of communication - halfway in between private and public. It's very strange.
He also has some very funny observations about celebrities on Twitter:
Some celebrities, like Ashton Kutcher, have huge followings; other,
even bigger celebrities lock down their “updates” so that you can only follow them if you’re approved. (One movie star I’ve written a movie for, for instance, let me into his exclusive, private group of
followers, fewer than I have; he seems to use it mostly to communicate with his girlfriend.)
Melissa at Sixteenth Letter thinks celebrities will bring Twitter into the mainstream:
Who can resist a service where
