Tag: Twitter

Actor Charlie Sheen has been in the news a lot this week, and today is no exception. The former star of “Two and a Half Men” set the Guinness World Record for “Fastest Time to Reach 1 Million Followers” on Twitter, doing so in 25 hours and 17 minutes (Sheen joined on March 1).

Surprisingly, he has actually tweeted. In his first tweet, he uploaded a photo in which his head replaced the head on the Oscar statue. Sheen also has @replied and retweeted.

In addition, Sheen is following a few people, mostly celebrities. With Sheen’s apparent popularity on Twitter, I think he could try to leverage it to get the $3 million he is demanding from CBS to return to his TV show. However, I’m not so sure CBS is going to budge.

I have been really impressed with the Twitter coverage of the protests at the State Capitol. Social media puts the power of broadcasting in the hands of the consumers, and it really shows. Over the past week, I’ve enjoyed reading tweets and looking at tweet photos of the rally from both citizens and media alike.

Getting news this way is so much faster than hoping for updates on a website or even watching TV news. The biggest catch is how quickly unconfirmed news/rumors circulate. For example, last Saturday many people were tweeting about Sarah Palin and Bill Clinton being here, when in fact neither came.