Twittering Celebrities Take Fans Backstage in Their Lives

Paparazzi, eat your hearts out: Celebrities are now taking their own candid photos of themselves and putting them on the Web.

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.” Mr. Kutcher also uploaded a short live video from his mobile phone using Qik. Ms. Moore (or Mrs. Kutcher, as she refers to herself on Twitter) turned her cameraphone on herself and Mr. Kutcher decked out in their postceremony party gear, garnering thousands of hits in less than a minute.

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