So I did a post weeks ago in which I stated that I only started to do Twitter because I was going to try to get someone famous to tweet back to me. And then I was going to make Jessica admit that I am cool.
Well, my plan has succeeded beyond my wildest expectations. And I will tell you what the secret is so that you can try it too… even though I found the secret only because I am such a computer moron. But hey, I make my stupidity work for me.
So when you follow famous people on Twitter, you need to be careful. Because believe it or not, people use their names. I thought I got a tweet from William Shatner once, but it was just from a fan site of his. The way you tell is that there is a little blue check mark beside the names of the ‘real’ celebrities. It turns out that this shows up on their little bio thing, but not on every tweet. So I follow a lot of my favorite famous people, just to make my plan have a chance. And I try to tweet funny things to them to get them to answer. But this is like hoping to win the lottery.
But, it turns out that famous people are worried that people will not believe they are who they say they are. All I did was tweet to Eric Idle, asking him if he was really the real Eric Idle, because I couldn’t see the blue check mark. And he responded, saying that he was. Jessica has since told me that this was his way of saying that I was an idiot, but who cares. I checked his bio and it is the real him. That is what my earlier post was about. But then I responded to him, telling him that he was a world treasure, and thanks for all the laughter. Never hurts to butter him up, right?
Then I had a crazy idea… shut up… I tweeted him and told him that my funny sci-fi novel has a character, an alien, who only speaks Monty Python. And I asked, in that horribly small amount of room they give you to tweet in, how I could get permission to use this character in my book.
And he responded, saying that I need to contact their business manager for Monty Python, and he gave me the fellow’s name.
So I just want the world to know that Eric Idle is a very nice man, and very helpful as well.
And I had a conversation with him. It wasn’t a long conversation, but I would say that two responses falls into that category.
And Jessica said I was cool on Facebook, so…
