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People care. As evidence I present the entire yellow journalism, reality show, and influencer industry.

There’s an entire meme economy built on top of things like the batchelor. None of those people are even noteworthy.

People really really care.

I understand that many people are interested in celebrity. (That's why I included people like "TMZ employee" as "ordinary people").

I really meant the ephemera of autographical edits. It seemed as relevant as collecting used cocktail napkins of celebrities.

A parallel comment to yours suggests its fodder for "gotcha" posts. I guess that makes sense for those who like that, so does answer, a little, my "who cares" question.

It's "awesome" to make sure that if someone ever had something in there that's now embarrassing or wrong you can taunt them with it without having to have stalked them yourself. Stalker paradise.

Sigh. This is indeed an example of someone who would care.

HR seems to, and that alone is enough to cause massive disruption for most people, even the 'relatively well off'. If you aren't rich enough to never need to work again to survive, then your livelihood is one Twitter mob away from being destroyed.

Seriously, you think HR has time or interest in the updates to peoples’ Twitter bios? Their Twitter stream perhaps

> We "learn" that Elon Musk is indeed self-centered and image-obsessed.

It's an untestable hypothesis, but I've always wondered if anyone would care about Elon Musk if he never got hairplugs.

https://pagesix.com/2018/07/25/its-highly-likely-elon-musk-s...

I just can't imagine him developing a cult personality without it. I think people would think of him more like Ballmer - just kinda crazy.

There was twitter thing a couple weeks ago comparing Tom Brady and a 1970s QB, and how young Brady looked. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/twitter-stunned-by-to... Yet almost nobody understood that yes Brady has had cosmetic work done, it isn't all natural youth he has.

Almost all male celebs have had work done. Same with many older sports and business people, such as Mark Cuban.

Combined with photo alteration, very few look as they would if they aged "normally".

Yeah, cuz nobody cares about Bezos

I think so too. There have been studies that show that more attractive politicians get more votes (just for being more attractive), also attractive people get better jobs/wages. I'd even wager that Trump wouldn't have been president if he would look his age (or had less hair). Same analogy would definitely apply to Musk. There is an inherent quality to looks that hasn't been erased by us being more sophisticated than ever. As much as it's unfair.

Spoonbill updates are neat when people use twitter bios as a mini resume, like a linkedin feed of sorts. That way you can see who left facebook this week.

> Who cares? I don't mean "who cares about this article"; I found it worth the read. What I really mean is: is there really that much interest, or even that much of interest, in the edits of peoples' autobiographical sound bites?

For stalkers, I bet there's plenty of demand.

For starters, your current and future employers, dates and insurance companies.