All you Twitter fans…One of our favorites, SookieBonTemps makes CNN!
@sookiebontemps (“True Blood” character Sookie Stackhouse)
As part of its viral marketing campaign, HBO’s “True Blood” has a whole coven of its characters on Twitter, tweeting away as if they’re real people. (Well, at least as real as people you only know on the Internet).
From Viking vamp Eric to sassy Merlotte’s Bar cook Lafayette, they’re all there. One of the most active is this one, from the perspective of the main character from Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse novels, on which “True Blood” is based.
Followers: More than 12,000
Sample tweet: Pullin’ into the @MerlottesBar parkin’ lot and it’s already lookin’ pretty full for a Wednesday. Tweet y’all once I get settled in.
I must be really out of touch. This woman and her character has over 12,000 followers? What am I missing, ’cause it sounds really stupid to me?
Twitter is a load of self centered crap. End of. Who gives a toss what you had for breakfast?
You obviously don’t understand the wonder of Twitter. I have a blast over there. I even attended the Magister’s Ball with the Bon Temps Twitter crew. It was pretty awesome. :) Don’t knock what you don’t understand.
Yeah, the fake Southern accent just doesn’t translate well into writing. I don’t think Sookie would actually drop the g at the end of words if she was writin’!
Twitter Lafayette, OTOH, is pretty funny at times!
Tried Twitter than gave it a miss!
I still don’t like how CNN called it an HBO viral marketing campaign when all the twitter role players are fan based.