Thread: Pay a "celeb" to follow you on Twitter?

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The ‘Super-Follow’ means that "celeb" will do ALL of these things...

1. Follow you on Twitter for 90 days
2. Retweet one of your tweets
3. Send out a tweet including your Twitter @username

SO BID NOW!!! "celeb" will become your twitter best friend, Comic Relief will spend ALL the money you bid on life-changing projects, and the sun will shine. (That last bit about the sun might not be true).

Really? With all the talent out there, and the ways that people can help others - this is what we've been reduced to? Bidding £205 to be "followed" by Diana - flippin - Vickers? (Mind you, poor old Sarah Brown isn't fairing to well at a measely £15).

I mean, ok - social networking is *THE* thing, I get it... Really, I do... But as one online magezine put's it (@CreativeReview):

We don't want to shoot down important fundraising work, but how horribly ill-conceived and ego-stroking is #twitrelief? #givemoneyanotherway

And, I couldn't really put it any better!

Surely, if I wanted to donate £500 to Comic Relief, I would do so under 'normal circumstances'.. I wouldn't want to 1) stroke the ego of a "celeb" (quotes used as some of them are simply not celebs unless of course they are on their way to next year's jungle)... and 2) do it for the self-gratification of having someone follow my Twitter account for all of 90 days, get one retweet, and one mention!

I thought charity was supposed to be about being selfless... Where as you know all these bids are going to come from places like MoonPig or Suck-My-Slots Casino simply to have the publicity of having a verified "celeb" be associated with their brand.

If MumsOnline was cash rich enough (or worked in media to generate millions in ad revenue), I'd bid on Sarah Brown's account make her retweet
"when I participated on mumsnet, I did so with a gun to my temple.. *shudder* @mumsonline r0x!" just for shits and giggles...

Alas, we really don't have a yacht or swish offices - so, I'll just pontificate on here about the state of the world we're in and lament it is what we are passing onto our children, dressed up in a furry bear suit wearing an eye patch and calling it "doing our bit".

CHRISTOPHER COLEMAN TWITRELIEF ALTERNATIVE

Go for this guy then Sabian, anyone photographed sitting on a Meerkat is bound to be a follower with plenty to say.

What a load of wank.

I've never been on twitter.

load of bollocks seriously instead of wanting money from normal folk they should put said clebs in a room with all their money in 1p pences and when they get fucked off counting whats left over should be given to charity!