Another illusion shattered.  All those celebs twittering?  Well, some of them are Cyrano de Twitters.  I can’t wait for the outcry from authentic star twitterers who will look down upon those  outsourcing their twittering.

And, no matter what, please don’t tell me the_real_shaq  is not the real Shaq.  Surely a fake Shaq couldn’t Twitter like that.

Britney Spears recently advertised for someone to help, among other things, create content for Twitter and Facebook. Kanye West recently told New York magazine that he has hired two people to update his blog. “It’s just like how a designer would work,” he said.

It is not only celebrities who are forced to look to a team to produce real-time commentary on daily activities; politicians like Ron Paul have assigned staff members to create Twitter posts and Facebook personas. Candidate Barack Obama, as well as President Obama, has a social-networking team to keep his Twitter feed tweeting.

The famous, of course, have turned to ghostwriters for autobiographies and other acts of self-aggrandizement. But the idea of having someone else write continual updates of one’s daily life seems slightly absurd.

via When Stars Twitter, a Ghost May Be Lurking – NYTimes.com.