Celebs turning to ‘ghost tweeters’ to update Twitter accounts

October 1st, 2009 LONDON - A Brit pub landlady has revealed that she is in need of an exorcist for her pub, as there seems to be a ghost who likes to keep topping up regulars' drinks. Janice McCormack, 60, says the spectre is costing her a fortune as he gives away her beer.

September 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and International Road Federation (IRF) are planning to use social networking websites including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to help reduce fatal accidents by 50 percent in the next three years, officials said Monday. For generating mass awareness about road safety, apart from using traditional media tools including advertising, billboards, posters, modern web based social networking tools that include Facebook, blogs, Twitter and YouTube will be used to spread knowledge of road safety, K.K.

September 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Social networking sites Facebook, Twitter and YouTube will be made use of by the Indian government to spread the message of safe driving, transport officials said Monday. "For generating mass awareness about road safety, apart from using traditional media tools including advertising, billboards and posters, modern web based social networking tools that include Facebook, blogs, Twitter and YouTube will be used to spread knowledge of road safety," K.K.

September 2nd, 2009 Tweet for hire: More big businesses hire tweetersCHICAGO — People around the world interact with Alecia Dantico all day. Usually, though, they don't know whether she's young or old, male or female.

June 5th, 2009 LONDON - The ghost of a small child is believed to have been captured by CCTV cameras at a shopping centre in Chile, South America.he 36-second footage, which has surfaced on the Internet, shows the shadowy spirit gliding in between oblivious shoppers. The 2ft tall floating phantom figure appears in the bottom right of the screen after a male shopper exits a room to the top left, reports British tabloid The Sun.

May 14th, 2009 LONDON - Call it "celebrity fever" or, simply, lack of interest - majority of people are clueless about general history but when it comes to celebs they're pretty well-informed, finds a UK study. According to the research, nine out of 10 adults know the names of the Beckhams' three children, Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz, but less than half know John Major was Prime Minister during the first Gulf War, reports The Telegraph.

May 3rd, 2009 Tweaked about fake tweets, Idaho gov joins TwitterBOISE, Idaho — A bogus Twitter account set up five weeks ago in the name of Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter has been shut down — only to reopen with the real governor sending out tweets.

April 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Hollywood actress Evan Rachel Wood was left baffled when she discovered she had a loyal fanbase on the micro-blogging site Twitter, because she doesn't even use the site. Evan was dazed to realize that an impostor had gathered the attention of her zillion fans by posing as her.

April 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - After Ashton Kutcher's record-breaking debut on Twitter, the social networking world has now welcomed yet another celebrity entrant - Oprah Winfrey. Around 10 a.m.

April 4th, 2009 LONDON - It was Demi Moore's quick thinking that saved a suicidal woman's life, as the actress' immediate posts on Twitter helped cops reach the woman in question. The 'Ghost' actress was baffled as to how to react when she received a post from a 48-year-old suicidal woman on her Twitter page.

April 3rd, 2009 LONDON - A second photograph showing a ghostly figure at Tantallon Castle has emerged three decades after it was taken. A recent photograph was voted as the most convincing ghost snap, after it showed a figure clad in Tudor dress and a ruff peering out of a crumbling window at the ruined Scottish castle on the East Lothian coast.

March 24th, 2009 LONDON - Jennifer Aniston dumped John Mayer because he was completely hooked on to social networking site Twitter, so much so that he didn't even have time for her, it has emerged. Mayer was so busy updating his Twitter page, that he didn't even have time to return Jennifer's calls, according to a pal.

March 24th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher has naughtily posted a picture of wife Demi Moore's bottom on his Twitter page. While the couple was on Parrot Cay, in the Turks and Caicos Islands to attend Moore's ex-husband Bruce Willis' wedding to model Emma Heming, Kutcher was upto his mischievous tricks.

March 14th, 2009 LONDON - An English professor has launched a nationwide ghost debunking exercise, which has attracted thousands of participants thus far. Hundreds of snapshots of alleged ghosts have been posted online on a site created by Professor Richard Wiseman, who teaches Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, for an experiment at the Edinburgh Science Festival.

January 8th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood comedian Jim Carrey will be playing four different roles in a new version of Charles Dickens' classic tale 'A Christmas Carol'. According to dailymail.co.uk, Carrey will sport a virtually unrecognisable look complete with prosthetics, grey hair and pimpled skin to portray the bitter and miser old merchant Ebenezer Scrooge, who is given a chance at redemption on Christmas Eve.