I woke up yesterday morning and the first thing I did was go through my iPhone and you-tubed,  googled and Tweet searched for Tiger Woods’ press conference apology video. After watching the video, I felt a sense of satisfaction. Not because I was cheering for Elin and not because he apologized to his wife and implied he’s no Tiger, but a “Cheetah” – it was because I already had my first dose of celebrity news for the day. I did not need to wait till Monday to get the latest OK or Famous magazine to read all about it.

According to Mashable, there were 683,000 live video streams and 93,000 tweets recorded during the first hour of the press conference. If you go to You-Tube today, the top three Most Popular videos are that featuring Tiger’s speech.

Twitter users were tweeting within minutes after Tiger’s car accident last year. We already had a sense of what was going on: wife smashed car to get him out (?) before Entertainment Tonight reporters came to the scene. This real time concept means you access information faster and be in the know NOW. We are a generation of NOW. We want facts and stories NOW. What is being Twittered is done in real time.

Even famous celebrities have twittered and gave their own two cents worth of what they thought of his apology. Donald Trump said he should be a play-boy, Alyssa Milano used the word “Man-Slut”. I’m intrigued that celebrities, athletes, politicians, etc have jumped on the bandwagon with this Twitter phenomena and it is so interesting seeing the tone of voice that they use! Celebrities are happy to tweet about their daily lives and you have that instant sense of connection with them. There is definitely an emerging trend of celebrities tweeting. They create that intimacy with their fans instantly by sharing photos with us  (unlike the grainy ones taken by the papparazzi!) and what they are doing now.

In summary, It has made me wonder if we will see the demise of gossip magazines & drop in entertainment news? In time, will people read about what’s going on in real time, what’s coming out from celebrities themselves and will we all soon ignore the crap that is fabricated in magazines and judge what is being said on Twitter instead?

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