Mui Hong Yin 20031979, Blog Post 2

Mui Hong Yin 20031979, Blog Post 2

Under the technology is advancing in days, social media is the necessary for people, people use the social media rather than talk directly with each other. That is not common that people use it because the celebrity always use that to update their status or just sharing. According to the essay , Twitter has been very famous for the celebrity to talk with their fans as a platform, that is very convenient for the fans that they can talk with their idols. Also, some of the celebrities through this platform to establish their image, like they are nice to fans. Besides they can update their status but also play the live and talk with friends. Moreover that is a marketing chance for the company to upload their newest products for selling.

This might be the most convenient and effectiveness way for the celebrity to react with the public. Just like the elected president Donald Trump, he would like to react the rumor from the media and also he reacted to Obama about Obama’s criticism on him, this is an obvious example that the celebrity not only react to someone but also to the public, that’s why convenient and effectiveness.

That is no doubt that the celebrity is enjoying Twitter and also the social media to share their status. This is not especially for the celebrity, indeed people are following this trend too. Our friend like sharing their status even they just having lunch, birthday , studying, this is the new and one of the most common way for people to express their feeling to their friends.

In fact, I like to post my newly status just like I got the award in the basketball race, playing ocean park with friends . One of the memorable status is that my supporting basketball NBA team got the championship last year, and I post their team photo and hashtag their team’s name, one of their players liked my photo and that make me crazy, I think this is why people likely to follow their idols or even the sports team and brand, Just like the celebrity is noted to you.

Reference:

Marwick, A. & boyd, d. (2011). To See and Be Seen: Celebrity Practice on Twitter. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 17(2), 139–158.