The First Twitter Séance: Commercial Exploitation Gone Mad
Get ready everybody; the world’s first online séance is taking place. That’s right, someone’s invented another method of violating micro-blogging medium Twitter, and plans to hold the first ‘Tweance’ on Friday October 30th to apparently coincide with Halloween which, confusingly, is on 31st October.
‘Natural clairvoyant medium’ Jayne Wallace of tabloid newspaper fame will quiz four dead celebrities nominated by Twitterers, tweeting any communication she receives from the likes of Elvis, Michael Jackson, or any other of the great departed.
Recent dead-celeb communication highlights by Wallace have included a séance with Jade Goody, though sadly the resulting pearls of wisdom gleaned from this activity remain a mystery to Letstalkmore.
Perhaps the greatest mystery of all is why the event is being held on Friday 30th Ocotber, as opposed to ACTUAL Halloween, which is Saturday 31st October. Oh, hold on, using my own psychic abilities I’ve figured it out – the Tweance is the idea of a Halloween costume store in London, which will gain lots of coverage from the event.
And promoting the store on the day of Halloween, although being much more relevant to the subject, wouldn’t allow the necessary time for potential customers to travel to the store and buy their costumes.
Not that I’m a non-believer or anything. I’m sure that people, after they die, love nothing better than to have their only shot at communicating with those they’ve left behind in the realms of the living exploited on Halloween for commercial gain on a blogging site. Isn’t that everyone’s dying wish?
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