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Super Twitter vs Super Injunctions

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed the massive increase in the news using Twitter as it’s sources or stories?

For instance, the other week I was driving home from work listening to the radio when I heard the news reporter mention a tweet from Michael Owen complaining about match ticket prices. Then there was the whole alleged Jemima Khan and Jeremy Clarkson affair rumours caused by an account on Twitter with the user name @injunctionsuper. Recently, I saw a news article stating Lily Allen had revealed all on married life through Twitter - well isn’t that just shocking news?

These were real ‘news’ articles based on 140 character statements by people who are in the public eye. Forgive me for thinking that perhaps there was a war going on, or maybe even a destructive hurricane, or a volcano causing havoc…

Perhaps the most interesting news to come from Twitter lately is the cleverly titled (not so suprisingly by The Dail Mail) ’Naming Private Ryan’ kerfuffle? Britain’s worst kept secret has FINALLY come out, hooray!

Haven’t we been shocked enough by other well known footballers’ antics to not really be suprised any more that young, handsome men, with more money than sense are sexually active? Ok, he has a wife and children and has stupidly had an affair with a beautiful model. Morally that’s probably not right or acceptable, but so what?!

The purpose of super injunctions is to protect high-profile public figures, including celebrities and politicians, from having personal information about their personal lives revealed in the media. Consequently, these laws are being reviewed as apparently the media has a right to know and publish what is in the public’s interest. That’s great and everything when it comes down to human rights and such, but just how much is it in the public’s interest to see who is having sex with who splashed all over national news?

Hundreds of thousands of pounds was thrown at the courts by the premier league footballer to protect his identity from being revealed in the media, and good old Twitter and British humour has come through to make a mockery of the whole super injunction. It’s nice to know hundreds of thousands of pounds and court orders can not stop us making jokes about the issue in question, because the bottom line is, most of us do not care, we just want something to talk about.

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Re: ‘Made In Chelsea’ vs ‘The Only Way Is Essex’

I’m throwing my hands up here and admitting my mistake - I didn’t check the facts, then check them again. I previously was unaware the same ‘story producer’ creates BOTH ‘Made In Chelsea’ and ‘The Only Way Is Essex’. 

Now that does explain a lot about the shows, for instance; the numerous similarities, how one began when the other ended, how both cast tweet about each other etc. However, it doesn’t quite explain why Amy Childs commented negatively on the ‘rival’ show in her magazine column does it, surely she should be supporting her friend and story producer’s other show?

But what still plays on my mind is the mystery of who was behind the fake twitter accounts for the Chelsea cast and the story they told me of them working for e4…

I guess we’ll never know!

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‘Made In Chelsea’ vs ‘The Only Way Is Essex’

Today during my dinner hour at work I took to twitter on my personal account to casually stalk my friends and favourite celebs. My eye was drawn as usual to some banter going to and from certain ‘public figures’. However, this time it wasn’t Piers Morgan vs Lord Sugar/ Rio Ferdinand / Michael Owen / any other Manchester United player… 

What took my interest today was some rather harsh Tweets between @MissAmyChilds (Amy Childs, star of ITV’s hit ‘The Only Was Is Essex’) and @CaggieDunlop (Caggie Dunlop, star of e4’s flop ‘Made In Chelsea’).

What initially caught my eye was a Tweet from Caggie which gave this link to an article from The Daily Mail to her 14,000+ followers to read. Firstly, The Dail Mail must be the only national newspaper to use articles based around unverified reality show ‘stars’ as news. Secondly, the article has been edited at least twice since I first read it.

The news article was based around tweets from the two and stated Amy Childs had labelled Made In Chelsea ‘a pile of rubbish’ and Caggie had responded by tweeting, ‘Just seen @MissAmyChilds comments on us. She says we need a vajazzle. Darling, at least my vajazzle will have real diamonds!!’

So I decided to see how much truth was in this article as from watching both shows I understood Amy Childs to be an outgoing, yet harmless sweetheart, and Caggie to be the same to some extent. As I read through Caggie’s profile, further tweets insulted the Essex cast’s devotion to fans and their grammar, mainly by using the word ’jel’. Caggie also wrote to other cast members, mainly Ollie and Binky (who she is never associated with on the show) and slagged off fellow cast member Amber Atherton by saying ‘the only thing fake on the show is Amber’s smile’.

There was also a few tweets from Caggie explaining her anger of having an imposter on Twitter pretending to be her… so of course I checked this ‘fake’ out. The ‘fake’ @Caggie_Dunlop had also expressed upset over the stress @CaggieDunlop was causing for her.

So after some snooping (scrolling) I found this photo posted by @Caggie_Dunlop on 14th May…

And this similar photo posted by @CaggieDunlop on 15th May - check the photoshop mistakes…  

So after I posted the above fake picture pointing out the photoshop mistakes, @CaggieDunlop followed me and sent me a direct message… Unfortunately by the time I got home to create this post, @CaggieDunlop had deleted their account and so all our direct messages to each other had been deleted too - major flaw Twitter!

Anyway, the first message I received was along the lines of ‘this account is to create publicity because ratings were bad that’s why e4 hired me x’. In shock/disgust I replied in 140 characters telling them how I thought it was a bad idea and portraying Caggie and co. as stuck up had put people off the show all together! They basically agreed in their next reply by saying ‘risky strategy I know!‘… WHAT THE?!

Before I knew it, the real fake account (@CaggieDunlop) had been deleted and the real Caggie (@Caggie_Dunlop) could now clear her name by proving she wasn’t behind the bitchy remarks made against the Essex cast or stuck up comments - at the same time, everyone on Twitter would be so confused they would all now be paying interest in the real star’s Twitter accounts and ratings for the show would improve. Voilà.

So, a really clever marketing move, poor PR or another fabricated lie from an imposter? Let me know what you think!

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Please note: I have no proof e4 was behind the ‘fake’ twitter accounts and do not claim this is true, I merely question whether it was all another lie produced by the person behind the ‘fake’ twitter accounts. I would love to know what you think!

Watch ‘Made In Chelsea’ on Mondays at 10pm on e4!