‘Facebook Is Wooing Celebs to Out-Twitter Twitter’ – ‘Mashable’

Denise Lu says, “Fans of tennis superstar Maria Sharapova might have noted she used the hashtag #misstheopen in an otherwise mundane tweet last week about seeing “The Book of Mormon” on Broadway.

To get the full story, though, fans had to go to her Facebook Page. There, a day later, she dropped a status update that included a 126-word explanation about her decision to pull out of this year’s U.S. Open. The statement, which was also on her official blog, explained that it was a tough decision but “it all comes down to taking the proper amount of time to heal my shoulder injury properly.”

Similarly, comedian Patton Oswalt uses Facebook for essays on topics like whether Ben Affleck will be a good Batman and the Boston Marathon bombings“.