Someone at Twitter was apparently surprised by the attention they got this morning for a job posting for a “celebrity concierge,” because they’ve since pulled it down. But according to TechCrunch, the 140-character blogging service is on the hunt for someone to cater to its celebrity clientele, who’ve helped Twitter to get a ton of publicity lately. (Although they still haven’t figured a way to monetize any of this, or keep their servers up more than 90% of the time.)
Now Twitter is hiring a VIP Concierge to pamper said celebrities, according to their latest job opening on JobScore. His or her job? Make sure the celebrities on Twitter are ‘happy’ and use the service effectively, whatever that means. You can read the rest of the job description on JobScore, but basically Twitter is hiring someone who will have to sway new celebrities into joining the micro-sharing service and make sure the ones who are already on there keep tweeting their hearts out, so the startup can get even more press.
What is this person going to do? Fix Courtney Love‘s spelling? Send Steve Buscemi some more whiskey? Explain to Giuliana Rancic once and for all how to use the reply feature?
Even more curious that they pulled the job posting once it got publicity. Hmmm.
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Thanks Jenna!
I hate twitter so much… i will never get one.
I couldn’t agree more. Do people really need to know every single random though/action that somebody takes at any given time? Seriously, people in our society are becoming more and more retarded.
*thought
Figures I’d make a typo while talking about how retarded people are becoming!
So tired of hearing about twitter
I don’t get the whole twitter craze, I mean, unless I’m missing something it seems designed for the pathetically needy. Talk about contributing to the dumbing down of society!
TOTALLY CONCUR with everyone else here! So Sick of Having Effing Twitter Shoved At Me.
Especially this site…there must be some kind of financial benefit….etiher Beet is an investor, or her parent company is, or something like that. Gotta be.
Beet – I thought you’d get a kick out of the story! Could not believe it when my boyfriend forwarded the TechCrunch info. Interesting that they pulled the job offer – but if they wanted even more press for the company, they got it! I still think you should apply…. And thanks for the link – so awesome of you. :)
I wish I got money for posting mundane shit about celebrities and telling them to join twitter. What an easy job!