Crom! Gov. Schwarzenegger is now following me on Twitter.
Crom! Mitra! What sorcery is this!?! Governor Schwarzenegger is now following me on Twitter. When I first got the email from Twitter informing me of this, I thought it was likely just one of the numerous fake Schwarzeneggers populating the Twiterverse. But upon checking my Twitter followers (all 94 of them), I soon found that it was the Governator's verified account. It has the little blue checkmark next to it and everything.
My current governor is followed by 1,747,181 people and is following 111,204. At 9:15 this morning, Arnold was "Hanging at Melody Ranch with my son and his friends."
"It's a great Western town," he adds.
Even though I have been tweeting about "The Expendables" a bit over the last couple of days, it's still hard to figure out why Gov. Schwarzenegger or the handlers of his microblogging decided to follow me. Michael Chiklis tweeted to thank me when my interview with him ran in Salon, but nothing I posted ever moved him to follow me.
Here are my last four tweets:
Both Eat Pray Love & The Expendables show Americans seeking enlightenment in exotic locales. Stallone blows shit up to find tranquility. (Around 2pm today)
Expendables is No. 1: http://shar.es/0XHIk USA! USA! (around noon today)
If The Expendables somehow makes $200 million, can Lucas please make "Grumpy Old Star Wars" w/ old Han, Chewie & Luke? (17 hours ago)
I've also tweeted my recent Salon.com article on the Saigon whorehouse outtake from the first Rambo movie once or twice there.
Governor Scwarzenegger and I are both following Wil Wheaton, Jerry Brown, Paul Krugman and ArnoCorps, the ballsy punk metal band of goddamned heroes that mocks Arnold at every turn. If you've read any of my recent blogs about Schwarzenegger, you can tell we don't see eye to eye, but at least the guy doesn't shy away from differing opinions. It's hard to picture Meg Whitman following Paul Krugman, let alone a rock band that's sole purpose would be to bag on her through thrash metal anthems.
Okay, speaking of ArnoCorps, I need to go to their lead singer's compound to watch WWE Summer Slam. As the Terminator would say, "Hasta la vista, baby."
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But then again I figure most famous tweeters are really public relation agents and not the real star.
Never occurred to me it was worthy of a blog post. I did like it when @ebertchicago started following Jocelyn Testes-Harder, though. That was a bit of a temporary fascinoma.
@Linnnn: Don't forget Mitra!
All I have to say is: What's he doing? There are school budgets cut! City budgets cut! People are out of jobs! Why does he care about Twitter? How can he possibly find the time? Why are my tax dollars going to his "tweets"? As a cat, I say -- hiss, hiss!
Well Best Wishes to you,
Blittie
@Nikki, He must be looking for Sarah Connor.