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My revised headline for the article. "@oprah signs up 1.2 million people to twitter; 800k of them to dumb to actually follow @oprah." She only has 377k followe

• wallflower 17y ago
  > If people signed up because of her you think they would follow her if they could figure it out. Oprah messed up trying to post to Twitter on her show (refresh instead of update was clicked) Oprah is a major celebrity who admits to not being able to know everything (that is part of her appeal to soccer moms ala Julia Childs dropping stuff while cooking). The interesting thing is that some social media experts pretend to know everything and/or are indistinguishable from an automated bot that tweets out article links/quotes (read any social media "expert"'s tweets to see what I mean), while some celebrities demonstrate or at least pretend that they are human/normal on Twitter. "Yes, it's happened. This morning Oprah Winfrey joined Twitter (@Oprah) during her show. Her first Tweet: "ASHTON IS NEXT!" was very anti-climactic. Instead of hitting Update, Nate Berkus hit Refresh. So it went to Twitter purgatory. Her first successful Tweet:" http://www.mediabistro.com/webnewser/social_nets/jumping_the_shark_or_a_whole_new_begining_for_twitter_114374.asp http://www.mediabistro.com/webnewser/social_nets/jumping_the...