Twitter  

So I have been adding comic book pros on Twitter to see if they drop hints or news items on there regarding there work. It appears more though that they use it to say weird things or discuss their day to day lives. At first I thought this was kind of lame but since I have found it often times to be pretty damn entertaining.

I also added other people such as MC Hammer and Shaq. It is interesting to see how they use it as well. So far Hammer has spent a whole day talking about talking in 3rd person. Now he has moved on to pushing evil from your life. I gotta tell you having grown up on his stuff this is ridiculously awesome to hear the Funky Headhunter drone on for 24 hours about 3rd person narrative. Shaq on the other hand used it early yesterday to play a game of tag where if someone touched him in the mall he was at they got free game tickets as long as they gave him their twitter name. Pretty neat.

Comic writers and artists on the other hand seem much more incline to talk about Taco's and music. Though there have been some funny moments such as Jason Aaron sharing some compliments from editor Axel Alonso, "You're no better a writer now than you were then". Good stuff.

There are some though who use it to promote projects. Bendis uses it to hype things as one would expect from the king of hype. Dennis Calero (X-Men Noir) also uses it to describe what he is working on even if it is in a way that doesn't give too many details.

Overall, Twitter is kind of a fun little bit of useless tech that results in hours, days, weeks, of legal online stalking. The twist though is that the pros are putting themselves out there to be stalked and actually feed the stalkers. Strange tech strange world.

If anyone joins let me know how you like it and what things you hear out there that surprises you.

Hang in there Inmates I'll talk to you all soon.