How Twitter is Half a Sex Tape

How Twitter is Half a Sex Tape

How Twitter is Half a Sex Tape

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March 16 2009 7:19 PM

How Twitter is Half a Sex Tape

Suppose Larry Summers suddenly became Lindsay Lohan. Or (more accurately) Lindsay Lohan suddenly became Ezra Klein: You're a young showbiz celeb who, unlike Paris Hilton, can actually act. Since you're worth something in respectable box office terms, and you've done the occasional Disney film, getting publicity via, say, an illicit sex tape is both unnecessary and counterproductive. But you can be the victim of an illicit twitter leak ! Not a crudely straightforward public post, like Demi Moore , but something that at least has the appearance of, and maybe actually is, an authentic privacy violation. ... P.S.:  Not saying that's what happened here. Just saying!  I guess this is obvious ... 4:27 P.M.

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