As I was waiting for my delayed USAirways flight last night from Philadelphia to Albany, NY and I turned to my phone for something to do. Since I have use a Blackberry, Words With Friends was out and so was FarmVille. I thought about the last time I was at PHL. Last year, I saw Marc Summers. So I tweeted and Marc replied from his iPad:
@alanrud such old news
— Marc Summers (@Ibatvmc) April 17, 2012
As you can see, I don’t think Marc was happy about. I started to doubt that it was really Marc at the other end of the Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/#!/alanrud/statuses/192271739001118720
But then I read about this and apparently it is really is Marc. This isn’t the first time I’ve conversed with a celeb through social media. Time’s Joel Stein and I have struck up a few conversations as well. However, this was a first time I ever tweeted about a celebrity and received a reply without mentioning their Twitter account. It seems that Marc is savvy enough to do a social media search for social media mentions.
Once I did a little research, I had indeed tweeted old news. His book, Everything in its Place, recounts his struggles with OCD. It was written in 1999.
By the way, Marc I’m a fan and I’ll never spew old news again. As someone who grew up watching Double Dare, I’ll never tarnish the Marc Summers brand again!
Moral of the story, be careful of the people and celebrities you Tweet about. They just might reply to you.
UPDATE: Marc and I have patched things up 😉 I’m glad things did not erupt into a Roland Martin Twitter scandal.
@alanrud not upset. Just tired of people going to extremes about things that are in the past. Hope you have a great day!
— Marc Summers (@Ibatvmc) April 17, 2012
