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Twitter Is Your Backstage Pass to the Oscars, and Beyond

by Tim Stevens on February 24, 2009 at 02:49 PM

Twitter is Your Backstage Pass

If you're like most movie fans, you spent your Sunday night glued to the television watching award after award get handed out between endless strings of montages. But, a growing number of online fans used the social service Twitter to get a glimpse behind the scenes, thanks to a number of celebrity tweeters.

Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore (known as Mr. and Mrs. Kutcher to Twitter fans) were some of the most prolific Twitter users at the Oscars, providing almost constant textual updates during the show itself. Highlights included Demi's saying "So excited my pal Penelope won!!!" and Ashton's posting a number of pictures and even one grainy video of after-show parties. But they're certainly not the only tweeters in celeb-land. As we've said in the past, everyone from Britney Spears to Barack Obama are posting their hearts out, giving fans quick updates on what's going on as it happens. So who needs shady celebrity tracking blogs and magazines when you can get the quick and dirty straight from the horses' mouths? [From: The New York Times]

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