Last year, fellow blogger/academic/Oscar-fan, Annie Peterson put together a Golden Globes roundtable wherein the seven of us who live-tweeted the event waxed poetic about the host (Ricky Gervais), the winners/losers, the lavish get-ups, and William Hurt’s beard. Seriously, look at that beard. If it doesn’t scream “Live-tweet me!” I don’t know what does.
Since we’ve so many participants live-tweeting this year’s Academy Awards (nearly 40 so far), I thought I’d try something different for a post-show roundup: Five Questions. Short, simple, and to the point, these questions shouldn’t take willing participants much more than 5 minutes to answer. And, hey, it’ll be a nice way to get to know fellow tweeters and to promote your blog/site!
So to those fine academics, film lovers/haters, and other cool people spending their Sunday night in front of Twitter and the TV, send me your responses — along with your online name/alias/TwitterID and the link to your website/blog — after the Oscars (finally) go off the air.
The Big Five
- How long have you been a fan of the Academy Awards?
- What do you think was the most tweetable (i.e., memorable? news-worthy? ridiculous? unexpected? best?) part of this year’s broadcast, and why?
- Who had the best Twitter snark of the night? (Send the URL of the tweet, please.*)
- If you had to pick ONE of your tweets to sum up your overall feelings about this year’s Oscars, which would it be? (Again, the URL please.)
- Why did you decide to live-tweet the Oscars this year, and would you do so again? Why or why not?
* This is when “Twitter Favorites” comes in handy; mark any potential snarky candidates as Favorites so you can find them easily later on.
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