Music, Twitter And The Mall
This story of Justin Bieber [some teen pop artist] not Twittering and thus landing the Def Jam label VP in jail was too interesting not to post.
An album signing scheduled Friday for teen sensation Justin Bieber at Roosevelt Field mall was canceled because a crowd of 3,000 young girls and their parents started aggressively pushing and shoving, police said.
“We asked for his help in getting the crowd to go away by sending out a Twitter message,” Smith said. “By not cooperating with us we feel he put lives in danger and the public at risk.”
Police arrested a senior vice president from Bieber’s label, Island Def Jam Records, James A. Roppo, 44, of Hoboken, N.J., saying he hindered their crowd-control efforts by not cooperating.
He was in custody Friday night, pending charges that could include criminal nuisance, endangering the welfare of a minor and obstructing government administration, Smith said.
There’s a lot you could say about this, but in the end, “Seriously?”
Source: Newsday
Tags: justin bieber, twitter
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:09 pm
How would twittering have helped this situation? The mob was angry already…I don’t understand.
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:10 pm
…if only Twitter had existed back when G’n'R was still actively touring!! Twitter alone could have single handedly prevented millions of dollars to trashed stadiums!
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Haha, all valid points and questions.
I don’t understand either because everyone was not sitting starring at their phones, I assume, they were busy pushing each other.
November 24th, 2009 at 6:02 am
While I agree that twittering would not have helped diffuse the situation, I also don’t understand why someone would flat out refuse to do it? I mean, it would have taken less time to just make a post about it as it would to refuse and battle with law enforcement.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:07 am
I would do basically anything the police asked regardless of how pointless it was. Good point Dan.