I didn't realize these people would be so upfront about using ghost writers on Twitter but, here they are, talking to the NY Times.
50 Cent gets his content thief to ghost twitter:
"On March 1, he shared this insight with the more than 200,000 people who follow him: "My ambition leads me through a tunnel that never ends."
Those were 50 Cent's words, but it was not exactly him tweeting. Rather, it was Chris Romero, known as Broadway, the director of the rapper's Web empire, who typed in those words after reading them in an interview.
"He doesn't actually use Twitter," Mr. Romero said of 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson III, "but the energy of it is all him.""
LOL!
Guy Kawasaki disses other Twitterers while justifying his usage:
"An unabashed user of ghost Twitterers is Guy Kawasaki, a new-media consultant with more than 80,000 followers, who is full of praise for the two employees who enliven his Twitter feed, often posting updates while he is on stage addressing a conference.
"Basically, for 99.9 percent of people on Twitter, it is about updating friends and colleagues about how the cat rolled over," he said. "For a tenth of a percent it is a marketing tool.""
That's cool as long as you're upfront about it but just because it's marketing, that doesn't make it ok!
But Shaquille O'Neal says:
""If I am going to speak, it will come from me," he said, adding that the technology allows him to bypass the media to speak directly to the fans.
As for the temptation to rely on a team to supply his words, he said: "It's 140 characters. It's so few characters. If you need a ghostwriter for that, I feel sorry for you.""
You go, Shaq!
