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Celebs Should Just Out-Pap the Paps

: Image by SpreePiX – Berlin via Flickr

There is an article in today’s NYT about the pictures and video posted via Twitter by Ashton Kutcher and Demi more during and after the Academy Awards last night:

While watching the Academy Awards on TV Sunday night, Hollywood couple Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore sent text updates to fans via Twitter. At a post-Oscars party afterward, they also uploaded several grainy photographs using TwitPic, an application that allows users to post pictures taken with their mobile phones to their Twitter accounts. Mr. Kutcher posted two low-resolution photos: a blurred image of producer Sean Combs along with the note “Diddy throws up oscars” and one of Mr. Kutcher himself clutching an Oscar, accompanied by the text “Me and penelopes oscar.” Ms. Moore turned her cameraphone on herself and Mr. Kutcher decked out in their postceremony party gear, garnering thousands of hits in less than a minute.

I’m actually surprised more fans don’t take more control of their public exposure. All they would really have to do to get rid of the Paparazzi is to release floods of pictures they (or their friends) have taken – give them away to the media orgs for free and just put the paps right out of business.

Considering the level of access the actual stars have it is impossible to imagine a professional paparazzi being able to compete.