Reports that a number of top Hollywoord stars, including Shrek voice stars Cameron Diaz and Mike Myers, have been banned from Twitter and other social media sites can only provoke derision.
The most followed person on Twitter
It appears executives at Disney and DreamWorks — where Diaz and Myers are lined up for next year’s Shrek squel — are paranoid that by pre-empting carefully choreographed press releases, Tweets from top performers are leaking information that could harm the film industry reputation.
While, Hollywood has a long history of gagging its top performers, it should be looking for effective ways to engage with social media through the huge numbers of followers its stars can call on. American actor and former model Aston Kutcher, has become the most followed person on Twitter with a count of 3,845,728 followers and still rising.
DreamWorks can be found on Twitter at @DW_Studios, where it has managed the grand total of just 18 Tweets.
