LeAnn Rimes’ Reason For Tweeting: “I Have So Much Dang Time On My Hands!”
October 3, 2011 by Hollywoodite
LeAnn Rimes is fairly-obviously addicted to Twitter. She spends literally hours a day, every day using the service. She tweets during family vacations, meals, parties. She was on Twitter through her entire honeymoon. She writes mostly asinine thanks, short replies and smiley faces etc. to fans who suck up to her… which is pretty nice. It’s the extent to which she does it and her motives that raise eyebrows.
She’s using the service to feed her narcissism and she’s using it as a tool to manipulate the slower of her fans. For example, every time she tweets a bikini photo in a bid for attention, it’s followed by random tweets about what she’s eating (to stave off criticism about her bones). And she uses Twitter to make herself look like a better ‘bonus mom’/ married mistress to her stolen family.
Her poor stepsons.
On Twitter, Rimes tried to get sympathy when one stepson was injured a year ago. She had time to tweet but she nor Eddie Cibrian had the time or decency to inform their mother. Their REAL mother. Rimes thinks she’s a real mother… because she said so. No. There are some amazing stepparents out there. Rimes, with her bones and her stolen family, is not one.
LeAnn Rimes tweets a lot. On Wednesday alone, she tweeted well over fifty times before most people had even finished their lunch. Still, the ‘Blue’ hitmaker insists she’s not addicted to Twitter, she just likes being in touch with her fans. A lot.
“You know, it’s not that I’m addicted to Twitter, it’s that I have so much dang time on my hands!” Rimes tells 98 Country. “If you saw how much time I sit on a plane or in a bus or whatever it may be, once I get all of my stuff done for the day, with this wonderful iPhone that we now have it’s so easy to just talk to people. I definitely do tweet a lot, I definitely won’t deny it, but I think a lot of it is answering people back and saying hello and thank you. I see how much they [the fans] appreciate it — it’s instant gratification.”
There’s no arguing that Rimes has a knack for getting in touch with the people who buy her albums through the social media site. In between tweets about burgers and the 2004 comedy ‘Mean Girls,’ the country singer connects with her followers in a way that most artists don’t: by replying to their messages.
“Because of Twitter I think my fans and I have had this kind of … I’ve been able to reach my fans in a completely different way,” Rimes explains. “Whatever strikes my fancy, whatever I feel like people can relate to, the blog was a suggestion of a fan and I thought, ‘What a great idea,’ because people really get to know me as a human instead of this tabloid staple that’s just a face.”
The singer, who married ‘The Playboy Club’ star Eddie Cibrian earlier this year, talks about everyday things with her fans — rather than her albums and star-status — because she thinks that people relate more to the little things. When asked whether she’d survive without Twitter, Rimes had no doubt. She said, “If I had to step away for two days, I definitely would not be like pining for it.” – via Taste Of Country.
The singer admits she’s bored, and she acts like she’s still an unemployed housewife, even though she’s promoting an album. Then she diverts into some scripted-sounded diatribe about reaching out to fans. No. She’s basically just filling time between purging by replying to sycophants.
PHOTO CREDIT – LEANN RIMES’ TWITTER
