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Celebs Tweet About Star Wars

April 14, 2009

If you haven’t gotten sucked into Twitter yet to micro-blog in 140 characters or less about your hopes, dreams, fears and favorite Youtube links, then you should at least check out what fellow fans — especially celebs are saying about Star Wars.

Here’s a selection of recent Twitter comments from celebrities Pete Wentz (Fall Out Boy), Joe Trohman (Fall Out Boy), Jhonen Vasquez (Invader Zim creator) and Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails frontman).

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Celebs Twitter With the Force

April 2, 2009

If you haven’t gotten sucked into Twitter yet to micro-blog in 140 characters or less about your hopes, dreams, fears and breakfast items, then you should at least check out what people — especially celebs — are saying about Star Wars.

Here’s a selection of recent Twitter comments from celebrities Pete Wentz (Fall Out Boy), Russell Brand (Brit actor/comedian/Goth pirate), Mark Hoppus (Blink 182), James Gunn (Slither director), and Milo Ventimiglia (Heroes actor/Jedi Master).

Pete Wentz (Fall Out Boy) tweets:

Milo Ventimiglia (Heroes actor/Jedi Master) tweets:

Mark Hoppus (Blink 182) tweets:

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Twitter Trench Run

March 18, 2009

Words: Bonnie Burton

If you happened to be hanging out on Twitter over the weekend, and follow prominent bloggers like Sean Bonner, Rudy Jahchan, Tara Brown and Veronica Belmont, you may have witnessed a virtual trench run on the Death Star.

The Twitter trench run is the idea of interactive storytelling consultant Jay Bushman who decided to do a social experiment online to see who indeed is strong with the Force. Starwars.com chats with Bushman about #Sxstarwars.

For non-Twitterers, what the heck is SXStarWars all about?

It was like a guerilla improv theater performance, but instead of being done by actors speaking lines in a theater, it was done by people writing lines over a live updating chat room. It was performed during the SXSW Interactive festival; playing on that, all the Twitter posts have the tag #SXStarWars, so you could filter those entries out of the main stream of everything posted

Why did you decided to do SXStarWars on Twitter?

One of my ongoing projects is producing adaptations of classic literature, reconfigured and re-imagined for different forms of web media. I’ve done a sci-fi version of a Melville short story using Twitter, Goodcaptain.com, a contemporary Spoon River Anthology as a group blog and I’m working on a modernized Pride & Prejudice using Facebook. So I’m always thinking of ways to retell familiar stories in new ways, using wide-reaching interactive media tools. I was also involved with a Halloween retelling of War of the Worlds which used Twitter, Google Maps and other web services to allow hundreds of people to recount a Martian invasion, and that got me thinking of how Twitter could be used for live story events.

The specific idea for doing a Star Wars story came from a tweet by Wil Wheaton. One day he wrote, “This is Red 5 standing by,” and was deluged with replies of Star Wars quotes from his followers. In a follow-up, he said that we could mount a serious attack on the Death Star just from people on Twitter, and I instantly thought “Why don’t we go ahead and do just that?”

I offered Wil the role of Han Solo, but unfortunately he had a previous commitment. Actually, I believe what I wrote to him was: “I have a question for you that every man of our generation wishes he’d get asked: How’d you like to be Han Solo?”

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Starwars.com Invades Twitter

February 4, 2009

We’ve been feeding you endless Star Wars content over the years including breaking news, full-length interviews, exclusive videos, web cam movies, crafts, collector features, fan profiles and more. So we figured it’s time to see how much we can entertain you in 140 characters or less.

Check out our updates on Twitter as we send you links to our latest articles, blog entries, news, weird Star Wars stuff from the Web, trivia and a lot more!

May the Tweets Be With You!

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