Porn stars use Twitter to go mainstream

Never heard of him, or any of the others, but I guess it's nice work if you can get it and want it. Twitter is a very big world beyond politics. Something tells me the porn biz probably isn't quite as glamorous as they'd like to make it seem. On top of that, you have the Internet age reeking havoc on the old business models that relied on tapes, then CD's. Report via CNN.

Once relegated to sleazy red-light districts and the darker corners of the Internet, porn stars are now gaining followings in a surprising place: Twitter. They are using the social media site to engage directly with their fans and build their individual brands

"Twitter has opened up these porn stars fan bases like nothing the adult film industry has ever seen before," said Dan Miller, managing editor of XBiz, an adult industry trade publication. "Since most mainstream pop culture publications don't cover the porn industry (and) porn movie reviews don't generally appear alongside reviews of big Hollywood movies … the adult industry has embraced Twitter as a way to reach out directly to fans beyond the typical porn consumer."

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