50 Cent's twitter blunder

We all know rappers can be foul mouthed and arrogant. It’s the persona that their trying to sell. They sing it in their lyrics and show it in their interviews. It seems that now there even taking it to cyber space. Rapper 50 cent has finally put his foot in his mouth, by tweeting about an airline hostess who was trying to do her job. The rapper put a tweet up saying “I'm on a plane [with] this ugly ass stewardess in my face. She keep [sic] asking me if I want shit. I keep telling her no”. This was later followed by an unauthorized photo of the woman.


There was a backlash by many of his followers telling the rapper that his actions were despicable. The rapper had also been previously banned from posting pictures up on twitter because he had previously posted what were deemed to be obscene photographs.

The story published on nine.msn titled “Backlash over 50 Cents Twitter comments” (http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=7954543) on the 1 September reveals what the rapper tweeted about the hostess and a few other tweets that have shown his misuse of the site. The story also includes a few of the responses tweeted back to him from some of his followers (presumably not following him anymore). The story is based on tweets by both the rapper and his followers and has no comments and sources from his management or himself. However I found that whilst not using the conventional methods of reporting such as interviews or comments made by the parties involved, just reporting on the tweets themselves was effective in forming a picture of the situation and the response to the rappers behavior from fans. This story is an excellent example of how a story can be told based solely on information or comments made on social networking sites such as twitter, where comments made can piece together a situation or incident and shows the publics response to the misbehavior of public figures.