Tweeji: How Afterlife Embraced the Virtual World

As we know, celebrities flock to Twitter to avoid the middle men, be they tabloids or paparazzi. Presumably, they want to speak to their audience directly. But it looks like even the Heaven is eagerly embracing the idea of social interaction and microblogging. Welcome Tweeji, the place where you can meet the dead celebrities who tweet.

Ever wondered why you send your prayers to Jesus with no avail? You may ask him this question directly, but chances are, right now he’s very busy recording a CD with Tupac Shakur. Oscar Wilde is contemplating life in his famous witticisms. Dante Alighieri, the author of The Divine Comedy, is travelling with Virgil somewhere in the Inferno’s bowles, which may explain why he is yet to notice Jesus. (I am secretly waiting to see his beloved Beatrice making an entry). Martin Heidegger is immersed in Hoelderlin, but tells Hannah Arendt that she is ever so close to him. Henry Miller is his usual sexual inspiration, while Confucius spreads the common wisdom in short rhymed messages. And Samuel Johnson, in the 195th year since his birth, revealed himself as an acquaintance of The Stone Roses. (I am sure The Stone Roses fans are pleased).

In all time of Twitter being around, this is surely the most daring addition to the myriad of Twitter-based fun applications. Tweeji certainly takes things to a totally new level where reality and virtual existence blur to the point of creepiness. Or maybe it just reminds us that there is life in the upper spheres. The strangest thing may be, of course, that Jesus and Buddha are considered “celebrities”… but they did have a human side to themselves, after all. And in the age when Beatles and the like have evidently been more popular than Jesus, isn’t that a call to leave the Church behind and speak directly to the “fans”?