Howard Stern Finally Adopts Twitter – Vows to Never Tweet
After years of pointing out what a stupid, pointless, waste of time Twitter was, Howard Stern has once again changed his tune and decided to embrace the social media giant. The master of flip flopping made the leap yesterday morning but, assures fans that he is simply there to follow some funny people.
Apparently his fans don’t care because after mentioning the account @HowardStern on his show this morning, the King of all Media has been adding new followers at a rate of around 1k per hour.
So far Howard is only following a select few including, Roger Ebert, Steve Martin, JD Harmeyer, and Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone. One has to assume that last one might be there because someone at Twitter setup and secured this new account.
How long it will take Howard to finally cave and do some tweeting is anyone’s guess but, we can only hope he will. The added exposure would mean nothing but good things for him and the Sirius XM brand.
UPDATE: Howard amassed 30k new followers in the last 5 hours and has already tweeted 3 times. That didn’t take long.
Technically he has tweeted already using the @SternShow twitter account back in April or May of 2009 but quickly gave it up over to whoever updates the daily show rundown. The King Of All Media needs to stop sleeping and get to know New Media.
Technically you are correct but this time around the move seemed more personal and of his own free will, not because someone told him he should for the show. I figured it was noteworthy.
twitter is stupid i love howard and have listened for 24 years but twitter is a waste of peoples time
lets see if Howard mentions it tonight…he is on Letterman show and should be interesting…
Why did the tweet cross the road? To become a Sirius/xm subscriber. Hey now!