Conan O'Brien, already a well known star in his own right, has become even more of a public figure in the past few months due to the drama between he and Jay Leno's late night talk shows. O'Brien, however, is using the massive following the conflict has garnered, paired it with twitter, and turned it in to a nearly sold out nation wide stand up tour.
The comedian and his team prepped their tweet days in advance, alerting his 600,000 followers that he would be "in their town" and directing them to his website for tickets.
The use of twitter and other popular websites have made celebrities accessible, and results like O'Brien's comedy tour are indicative of how they affect the audiences,a nd resulting ticket sales.
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It seems like a lot of people are using twitter to get information out there quickly.
ReplyDeleteI think it's a good idea (except I don't follow Twitter) but I'm sure O'Brien is saving all kinds of cash doing advertisements on twitter rather than commercials and other ways of getting his comedy tour dates out there.
From what I know about Twitter is it's quick, free and there are a lot of people who follow celebrities, so it seems like a good way to get things you want known out there.