#290 Send a Snarky Tweet to a Celebrity
In my quest to get more readers to SYED, I’ve been more active in my Twitter account for the past few months (PS - follow me, I occasionally have something somewhat funny to say!). Twitter is weird though. It’s hard to get followers. One way is to tweet at celebrities in hopes they retweet you. Then some slack-jawed drool zombies will see your name and think that they should follow you since a celeb retweeted you and that somehow validates you. And in few hundred years, you can have as many followers as Ashton Kutcher.
I’ve been tweeting at celebrities for awhile to no avail. No retweets, replies or anything. I still do it, thinking one day, one of them is bound to retweet me.
I tweet nice things. Flattering things. Funny things. Sentimental things. I never tweet anything mean or snarky. After all, I’m following celebrities I like. One of them is Giada DeLaurentiis.
Let’s get this straight. I like Giada. She knows how to cook like a motherfucker, is smart, hot and has a great rack. Sure she may have more teeth than the average person and be a little too chipper sometimes. But she’s nothing like that god-awful monstrosity Rachel Ray.
I tweeted to her once that it was because of her that I only make spaghetti sauce from scratch and never buy it from the jar. I was sure that was the sort of thing she’d like to hear but of course she didn’t retweet me. The next day, she tweeted about her jarred spaghetti sauce line from Target. What the fuck lady?? It was only a few years ago that you were preaching the benefits of making fresh spaghetti sauce now this? I understand a girl’s gotta get paid but come on. Oh Giada, you disappointed me so.
This morning, I saw a tweet from her that was kind of funny. I thought of a snarky tweet to send back at her but hesitated. I was pointing out a spelling error which people hate. BUT that was only to lead up to the second part of the joke which I thought was pretty funny. And who was going to see this anyway? I never get celeb retweeted. Below is Giada’s tweet and my reply:
Funny right? I kind of forgot about it until a short time later, much to my surprise, she RETWEETED me. Of course. Of all times to retweet me, it was when I was being a smart ass:
Great. Now I look like an asshole to all half a million of her followers. Soon after that I got a couple of snarky replies of my own:
Wow. Does anyone have a sense of humor any more? I like celebrities as much as the next guy but they don’t need you to “defend” them from mildly sarcastic comments.
Awhile ago my friend Julie and I were laughing about how Giada over-pronounces Italian words. I was in Facebook Page making phase at that time so I made Giada DeLaurentiis Over-pronounces Italian Words as a joke which Julie found to be funny. Since then it has picked up over 200 fans right. It’s not huge. But I knew I had to post my tweet there. If anybody would appreciate, it would be the fans of that page. Then this Giada supporter I guess found out about it and posted a reply trying to make me feel shameful. I couldn’t help myself…
I mean come on! It’s a joke! And a funny one at that!
Anyway, my foray into snarky tweets is probably going to end here. Man, you do not want to anger celeb twitter followers I guess. But I did finally get retweeted and I scored THREE new followers out of this whole epxerience. Bene!
