Social Media Consultant: Is Celebrity Journalism Coming To An End Because Of Twitter?

With Twitter fast becoming a staple in many people’s lives around the world (much like facebook has become over the last couple of years) its meteoric rise has come with many unprecedented attributes!

One such attribute is the access to conversing with your favorite celeb! Gone are the days when fan clubs and websites give you access to someone in an office who would have some link to the celeb, who would send out generic ‘thanks for your support’ etc letters to all fan mail. Now all you have to do is get yourself on Twitter and ask them a question or comment on something that they have Tweeted. This could get you conversion directly with the Celeb in Question.

I was thinking the other day, now that you can so easily see what celebs are doing day to day and read and write to them in 140 characters or less, how long is celeb journalism going to last? With the speed that updates to Twitter can happen and the opportunities to get to hundreds of thousands of people in seconds with their twitter followers, who’s going to wait weeks for a magazine or newspaper article which is going to ask the same questions that you could find out in any case by reading their twitter or even by asking them yourself! With celeb journalists reporting on what’s going on with celebs on twitter, days (and in some cases weeks) after the said event, is this going to be obsolete soon? I know in my point of view when I reading the newspaper that Lilly Allen had a pop at Scottish sensation Susan Boyle on twitter days after I saw the actual event on Twitter I’m thinking to myself, ‘Old News Much?’ I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks this!