It’s a thrill and also quite strange when someone really famous likes or comments on something you’ve posted. I’m still processing how that should affect me or not.
Engaging with famous people over social media when they acknowledge you.
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Have you encountered this conundrum?
You should be used to it by bow, the number of times Saucecraft pronounces on your post.
Bellows has the keenest mind in both hemispheres right now. Unfortunately, they’re both in his head.
Right, no one ask which really famous person responded to him. Let’s see how long he can last before he spontaneously combusts.
Since you ask. I ain’t telling. I wanted to know and hear what you have experienced if at all. That was all.
Oh, go on then. We know you’re itching to reveal who it was.
No. I’m not. That’s the point. Social media now allows you access to the famous and they to you. When and if that happens is likely to be a thrill and I’m just wondering if that has happened to you and if it has how you feel about it.
Spoilsport.
(Does big watery Disney eyes) Pleeeeease?
Happy New Year.😘
Probably Trump told him to do one !
That would be funny – cockney bantz from the Don.
“Oi Bellows, leave it ahhhhht!”
“Boyden…. yeewwww toilitt!”
Chloe Swarbrick, Bobby Ball, Mari Wilson, Owen Paul.
(#hello hello hello#)
You’re right – it is a thrill when they interact especially when they’re really nice (all of the above).
Aaah Bobby Ball….. watched a lovely tribute to him the other night. Laughed like a drain… He once tweeted something like. “Happy birthday Tommy Cannon the loveliest man I know.” I responded along he lines of “That’s rich coming from someone who made a career out if saying “I hate you Tommy” with the obligatory smiley face emoji. Bobby Ball just answered “Got me” ( smiley face emoji). Made my day……
Martin Amis, Germaine Greer, Stephen Colbert, Carla Bruni and Kris Kristofferson. These are just five of the celebrities whom (grammar) I’m pretty sure would respond enthusiastically to my social media comments if I made any. As it is, fuck ’em.
Then you don’t know what I speak of but only imagine.
The Wurzels. When I used Twitter, I once tweeted that I thought their cover of Spinal Tap’s ‘Sex Farm’ was the most upsetting cover version ever made. They tweeted back agreeing wholeheartedly.
Beezer knocks it out of the park with a comment that encapsulates everything great about human accomplishment.
It’s taken years of dedication and denial but it’s paid off.
Andy Patridge, before Twitter barred him, responded very kindly to my shameless flattery a couple of times. Jez Ashurst of Farrah replied to my question about a new album (not a peep for years from them, though). Nothing like chatting in person, but cheered me nonetheless.
Partridge wasn’t barred from Twitter, he deactivated his account after getting bombarded with tweets of people accusing him of anti-Semitism. I don’t think it was healthy for him to be on Twitter in the first place.
Kate Rusby’s husband didn’t like a lukewarm review I gave of his wife.
Calling Moose…..
Oh dear.
Badly Drawn Boy wished me a happy new year on Twitter yesterday, so I followed him back out of politeness. It made a change from disagreeing with Kirstie Allsopp about Covid responses. But that in itself was a step down from John Cusack tweet-shouting at me then blocking me because I asked for evidence for his claim that 5G was making people ill (‘NO! I don’t work for you! You do the research!’)
I don’t usually do New Year’s resolutions, but this year I might just quietly mute people ON Twitter when I disagree rather than weighing in.
I’m feeling that.
A friend of mine became embroiled in a lengthy Twitter spat with Lily Allen. It got really nasty(but shamefully, hugely entertaining) to the point where they were posting pictures to each other of crying children, staring at their reflection, with quotes like “This is what you see everyday” attached. On the other hand I’ve always found Mark Kermode very amenable and pleasant, especially if you mention Teddy boys or Harrington Jackets
I’m not a Twitter person myself, so I’m probably not qualified to comment. However, I used to work with a keen tweeter who was always eager to tell us about his dealings with famous people. His self-proclaimed greatest achievements were being blocked by Alan Sugar and getting a like from an actor in the US TV show Banshee, when he posted a favourable comment about it. Doesn’t seem like much to get excited about if you ask me, but maybe this guy was actually Bellows and I just didn’t know it?
Anyone follow David Crosby? The number of people asking fairly shallow questions,clearly to get the buzz of a reply, is remarkable.
I enjoy it when he judges followers spilffs….
Yes, That bit is amusing.
Rob C was very proud of his tweet relationship with the Cros.
I wonder if the reverse was also true?
In a private email, “Cros” (as his friends call him) confessed to blocking Rob’s messages after receiving a series of upsetting photographs.
Turns out he can’t handle a Camberwell Carrot.
Ooh stop!
“Is that a Camberwell Carrot on your album cover, or are you just pleased to see my Twitter reply?”
Cycling activist Jeremy Vine. Not pleasant
Nicest man in pop Nick Heyward. Lovely, lovely man. Always engaging and polite and friendly.
My Mum messaged me on Facebook today. That was nice.
That would be thrilling if my own would do that.
Where you been? Haven’t heard from you in a lifetime…
Marina Hyde liked a tweet of mine. Seem to remember it was a ‘three more from them later’ reply to one of her columns.
Huh…I’ve been shamelessly sucking up to her for ages, liking her tweets and sating things like, ‘Knocked it out of the park again, Marina’…zilch. She only simpers for other journalists, it seems.
The historian Helen Castor liked a tweet of mine – also a TMFTL.
Of all the people I follow on twitter, the broadcaster Henry Moeran (BBC, mainly cricket) replies or likes the most. Ditto Alex Hartley.
I guess it was pre social media, but I took a punt and emailed Roger McGuinn many years ago and he was happy to reply and we had quite the exchange over some months. That is until I suggested that the Byrds may have been influenced by the Searchers…..silence….
I rarely if ever use Twitter, but I was listening to the James O’Brien show live one Friday when he was doing a segment on the positive effect on prep school sport morale under lockdown of not playing competitively against other schools. As a kid he’d attended a school in Kidderminster and as part of the set up for the segment, he talked about the joy of beating a team from my old school (near Salwarpe). There was a news break, so I quickly tweeted that I was from that school and had always hated competitive sport.
After the news break, he read out my tweet live on air. I was amazed. “I write it here, he says it to millions the next moment”, sort of thing.
Of course, that was one of the few episodes not podcasted, so I missed out on hearing it again and clipping out and preserving the fleeting moment of recognition, but I’ve now mentioned it here, so that will have to do.
A few years ago, I was really annoyed by something on the Victoria Derbyshire programme on R5, and emailed the general contact e-mail address to politely and constructively vent. I was very surprised to receive a reply within minutes from her using her BBC email address. We exchanged several emails after the programme finished.
And now she’s Victoria Somerset?
Gretchen Peters once replied to a ‘Best rhyme you’ve ever written’ post on the Twitter and it made me feel all warm and fuzzy.
Arthur Smith liked my reply to one oh his tweets yesterday, then he followed me, made my day.
I did get a like (or a retweet, can’t remember) from Engelbert Humperdink after tweeting a terrible joke asking what his favourite Olympic sport was (Tai Quando Quando Quando if you’re wondering, which I’m sure you’re not).
Lucinda Williams sent me a follow request on Instagram.
I accepted her.
She asked me what I liked about her music. I sent a (necessarily brief) reply which was very positive.
She stopped following me.
Shelby Lynne also sent a follow request on Instagram. I accepted, but she didn’t stay long.
My Instagram account is now a celebrity free zone.
My only follower on Instagram is Mark Eitzel. Despite having had an account for several years now, I am yet to make a post.
I have regular acknowledgement of my comments and witticisms on Charles Shaar Murray’s Facebook page by the great man himself.
I don’t engage in any social media at all…however, I did once follow Susan Stranks…
Turns out that if you have something relevant to say, famous people react just the same as you or I. I find that disconcerting and misleading,especially when I ask for money or a part in their latest movie. Fucking ingrates!
I regularly cross swords with Richard Fairbrass on the comments section of the Times. He of the Deeply Dippy Hitmakers. He is quite the libertarian; anti masks, anti vaccs, anti lockdown.
A few friends and family in my world have a bit of a sad but entirely amusing game where any tweet of theirs that is liked, replied to or commented on by anyone with a blue tick earns you a number of points equivalent to the blue tick-holders number of followers. Tragic. Enormous fun….. Marian Keyes and Heather Trott from Eastenders always easy for a few points…..
A like from ‘Heather’…life doesn’t get any better than that.
When I saw this I thought you meant Heather from Brookside. Now that would be something.