Jalaj P. Jha Technical & Miscellaneous Ramblings

I am on Twitter following Stars

I signed up on twitter long time ago, but could never really use it, perhaps because I was never an sms fan and posting “What you are doing?” really was not for me. It was during terrorist attack in Mumbai that I first started using it to follow Arun Shanbhaag who was reporting activities at Taj Hotel from his home a few hundred metres away. This was followed by a long period of inactivity again.

A few days ago I decided to start using Twitter again to follow you know whom? The Bollywood Stars. One of my interests in the past had been reading a lot of magazines about Bollywood. These magazines are often called gossip magazines and often report facts that are just not real. So why not hear from the stars directly. Of course what they tweet would exclude all the masala stuff that magazines report like who is linked to whom, who got cosmetic surgery done, who put on weight and where

Since there are far more fake profiles than the real ones when it comes to these stars, I started with one profile which I knew was genuine, Akhishek Bachchan’s ( he himself told me ), and following the ones being followed by them and now I am following more than 50 stars. Here are a few interesting ones

Amrita Rao Her twitter profile claims that genuineness of her profile can be verified from the link on her website. Now how can one know that her website is genuine? from the link on her twitter profile page. And as per an old joke how can we verify that both are genuine? well from each others’ link. Is her profile genuine? let’s see!

Deepika Padukone Her account name is DeepikaCalling. She is the current brand ambassador for BSNL and her ads for BSNL have a catchphrase “Hindustaan bol raha hai” (India is calling). So you see her account name reflects the same. But wait! Who is PadukoneD? whom Daboo Ratnani the famous photographer is following? A fake profile it seems.

Mallika Sherawat is wearing a dress(?) with design that of US Flag, her account name ends with LA (Los Angeles?) and she is following ‘White House’ among others. This makes a story! Hey any magazine interested in hiring me as a (gossip) reporter? Her official website made in association with glamsham.com has an adsense ad on the top. Mallika is it that you didn’t pay glamsham for the site or you yourself earning from ad?

That’s all for now. Back to twitter to search more stars. Want to follow me?