I don’t care much for the celebrity culture, but clearly I’m in the minority judging by the amount of people who read gossip magazines and websites in order to get updates on every move their idols make. Twitter has already proven to be a great way for a number of celebrities to bypass the media and let their audience know what they’re having for lunch straight away, unfiltered, unless of course there’s a PR machine doing the 140-character typing for them.
Either way, Twitter has gotten a ton of (occasionally unfavorable) press thanks to celebrities who join the service and provide their fans with some glimpse into their activities and whereabouts, and even sometimes engage in conversations with them online or by SMS.
Now Twitter is hiring a VIP Concierge to pamper said celebrities, according to their latest job opening on JobScore. His or her job? Make sure the celebrities on Twitter are ‘happy’ and use the service effectively, whatever that means. You can read the rest of the job description on JobScore, but basically Twitter is hiring someone who will have to sway new celebrities into joining the micro-sharing service and make sure the ones who are already on there keep tweeting their hearts out, so the startup can get even more press.
(Via Adam Jackson, image credit to Forbes)
Everyone is a celebrity on Twitter!
yes including me.. follow me! lol
How many followers to you need to be a Twitter-Celebrity?
Alex I think at least 50000 followers are needed to be twitter celebrity :
http://www.smartbloggerz.com
Most of the celebrities are fake celebrities with people pretending to be chris walken, dina lohan, etc. I hope this conceriege will be able to tell the real celebs from the people impersonating celebs.
Well commented. “I Tweet therefore I am.”
wow.. gr8 move.. totally worth it ..
Another vapid article from TC.
PS: Robin, is your job here at TC just to cover Twitter? That’s all you seem to be writing about. How about something else?!?!?
I agree. Such a simple story and it took him 3 paragraphs to get to the point – not to mention the complete butchering of the English language in the process.
Yikes, I’ll try to clean it up a little.
Lol. I rather thought this article was ok and to-the-point.
Interesting though.
robin wauters eats, sleeps and shits twitter.
this seems like more of an article for valleywag than TC
Yeah exactly. Valleywag adds in a lot of hate toward anyone and everyone in the process, thus making any vapid articles like this one much more interesting. This article? Fail.
now, that’s a good move
I get to feel self righteous about never pointing my browser at Perez… because I sit beside someone who goes there every day.
My favorite celebrity-who-doesn’t-know-how-to-tweet is Dave Grohl
Makes sense. Other sites have people who work with celebrities in exchange for some namedropping. Good move.
It’s so boring to read another twitter-is-so-cool post.
Smart move.
Darlings move over
the jobs mine
I am worried about the future of twitter with these special rules for special people. Not because the celebrities are a problem, but because when businesses try to get on twitter and have their facebook-page-imitations, we are going to loose the wonderful thing about twitter: it’s people.
Seems like a fun job working with celebrities… er, their assistants that tweet for them.
Twitter is definitely boiling down to RSS rebranded with a funny name and the illusion of conversation.
I wish I could remember which movie it was where the insects all buzz towards the UV light saying ‘it’s so beautiful’….(If someone remembers, please comment!)
That’s my own personal take on these once hugely bankable Hollywood brands whose rather asinine online antics are with every tweet or poorly presented profile, becoming just another girl or guy next door.
I predict a story arising in the not too distant future where a studio dumps on an ‘A’ list act, citing the fact that their unadulterated social networking antics have blown their credibility and they no longer carry sufficient gravitas for a multi-million dollar movie…..failing that who will be surprised really when a movie bombs, because the leading lady who is going to save the world from nuclear disaster is everyone’s best mate on Twitter and just doesn’t cut it as a red carpet icon anymore.. To read the full article visit: http://tinyurl.com/d24ur2 !
The movie you are searching for is “A Bug’s Life”
Cheers Shane….. it’s been ‘bugging’ me for weeks!
http://tinyurl.com/c6z6au
Celebrities heading out on Twitter and Facebook… IMHO!
A Concierge is an excellent way to show your VIP’s how important they are to Twitter. A personal touch and tradition of excellence will continue the brand name. The future is unlimited for executives, celebrities, businesses owners or close friends to communicate quickly and efficiently, in this ever changing tech world they we live in. Everyone likes to be pampered a bit which creates a loyal community on Twitter.
Job well done!
this will add more fun … privacy has never been a thing for celebrities, they get smashed everywhere, even on twitter
@Hitesh will wait for twitter guys to call me
Hey,
They are going to monetize by charing some money for celebrity and commercial accounts and it is obvious now by hiring VIP Concierge
Dear Mr. A list Celebrity,
It seems like you enjoy our service and you are famous with lots of money. As such, it now costs $1,000 per month.
Best,
Twitter
Are you serious? How do you judge which celebrities and commercial accounts are paid?
Solidifying celebrity relationships… great publicity move. Well done twitter, well done.
Kinda like when Casinos cater to ‘Whales’ (big money gamblers). I”m just hoping Twitter remembers the little guy, and hires enough staff to offer exceptional Tweeple service for all.
But surely this is straight out of the “twitter premium” hoax. And I quote:
“Twitter Concierge for Tweeting while user is asleep or busy (and more)”
http://www.bbsp...m-accounts.html
Bet they’re laughing now!
Should be a pretty interesting job for the person that gets it. Good chance to network.
In my country (The Netherlands), “concierge” means:
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janitor. Which is also a appropriate job description
It’s pretty funny that the folks at Twitter misspelled the word “concierge” in the Twitter Job Description (see paragraph titled: “responsibilities”). Dang if they don’t offer spellcheck for Twitter posts either.
Alas – I’m too busy writing my Twitter Novel, “From Chicago to Coronado,” to apply for the Twitter job. The main storyline is @kirsteno – with characters: @mattclaymore @thegrannyflat @NadoDeeOgee @chicagoceochick….more. 2000 followers, beginning of Week 4 – the most for any Twitter novel to date.
kindly,
kirsten
smart move by Twitter, but that job would suck
I wish Britney Spears was authentic on Twitter. =/
She is awesome!!
I pity the fool he gets that job and has to deal with Courtney Love! Oy vey. Her Tweets are such a trainwreck.
More proof that people who use Twitter are Twits. ; )
I read somewhere else that there’ll be a premium service where you get the classic concierge service:
Point in question http://www.esca...ndex.php?cid=36
Come on, how likely is this?
it says the job has been placed on hold??
I’d so rock at this, too bad image is everything for celebrities – i’m just a skinny asian geek. My husky italian accent needed for celebs to respect and listen to me would be noticeably fake.
“Hey Dave, you did what i told ya – you made your myspace page. Look what i did for ya! you’ve got 4K friends! You’re paying your dues. You’re big, I tell ya, BIG, but you’ve still got a ways to go.
Sit down with me here, you’ve gotta listen to me now – are you listening? I need you to open a twitter account, Dave, you ain’t shit anymore.. you ain’t shit until you start tweetin’ ya hear? Are you gonna listen to me or you gonna be a has been eh? I want you to tweet your ass off like you’re callin for help in a burnin’ buildin! I want you to tweet every message twice so 140 characters is 280! Do it and call me, I gotta go, i’m busy…
Interesting news, I think everyone is a celebrity in Twitter too!
Frankly, I don’t care what the celebrities are up to on a month by month basis, let alone a second by second basis. However, I’m suprised they didn’t already have this type of position filled already.
Interesting comments…
Is this an April Fools joke? After watching the Celebrity Apprentice do a hotel task with concierge I would not want this job or wish it on my enemies. Try the best home page
Celebrities are absolutely helpless. Need people to do things for them they could easily do if they just lifted one of those lazy fingers and did it themselves.
Just another example of the decline of Western civilization. They’re either lazy, mentally challenged, or just plain stupid. My guess is D: All of the above.
At least Twitter opens the job market to one or more people for a position of such enormous un-importance.
Looks like they posted that job opening 1 day early. lol nerds.
Robin — and I’m trying to be helpful here — must all of your articles begin with “I don’t know about you, but I love Ovaltine” or “I love listening to music online. This is a great product.”
I mean, this is Hackery v.2.0.
I would love to be hired for the Celeb job on Twitter
With Twitter offering services like this, how long until they have some type of ad serving platform in their interface?
Yes! I can
I think the writer missed the point of the persons real job, and that is to make sure that a celebrity, when they do decide to use Twitter can secure their own identity or name. There are many fake Twitter accounts that aren’t the real celebrity, same thing happened on MySpace and other social networks.
To really nail the point, article should’ve been limited to 140 characters.