Tweets from fictional characters

I hap­pened to men­tion on twit­ter a few char­ac­ters’ names from one of my favourite shows, Dam­ages. The next day I found I was being fol­lowed by the lead char­ac­ter her­self, Patty Hewes [played won­der­fully by Glenn Close].

I sup­pose I opened myself to such a fol­low. All the mar­keters have to do is search twit­ter for any ref­er­ence to the show, and bang, you’re sent a mes­sage from your lat­est fol­lower. I can choose not to fol­low back, but I’m curi­ous to see if the plot will advance any more than on the show itself. Will I learn any­thing that tv view­ers won’t? If you know the show, it’s full of twists and turns and cryp­tic story lines, which—unlike Lost or Heroes—actu­ally work well.

I have to give props to the mar­keters for using this social medium to keep view­ers inter­ested between episodes. And I have the option to ignore it, which isn’t always pos­si­ble with advertising.

If you know her char­ac­ter, you’ll real­ize Patty Hewes actu­ally isn’t one likely to take time to tweet, but my curios­ity has cer­tainly been piqued.

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