Twitter Trend? Or Marketing Trick to get more than 2 million followers? Hmmm....whatever you think of Hannah Montana (a Disney live-action character), Miley Cyrus (the teen actress/singer who plays her) made headlines this week for breaking up with Twitter.
Cyrus told her Twitter fans she wasn't going to tweet anymore...then took her page down. Which launched a "Come Back Miley!" Twitter campaign and a boatload of mini-celeb news headlines.
Cyrus whipped out a You Tube rap ditty that's actually pretty cute to explain why: she wants more private time in her real life. When she realized she was Tweeting about pimples, she said, it was time to go.
Associated Press reported that punk widow Courtney Love (completely different demographic fan base) stopped tweeting and deleted her Twitter page too. As far as I know, you can still find Ashton and Demi there.
So: trend or marketing ploy? Cyrus is keeping her Web page, and her Official Miley Cyrus Facebook Page, and her Official Miley Cyrus MySpace Page, so she's hardly gone off-grid.
I confess two things: Generally, I hate rap music. And I have never watched nor listened to Hannah Montana or Miley Cyrus before today. But I thought Cyrus's rap song was pretty witty. Could have done without the jailbait booty shaking shot though. But that's just the mother in me.
If the hottest teen icon in celeb land is leaving Twitter...can the world be far behind? (Probably.) Or at least teen-agers? (Probably not.)
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