{"id":3154,"date":"2009-10-14T17:04:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T17:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2009\/10\/questions-for-dead-celebs-join.html"},"modified":"2009-10-14T17:04:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T17:04:48","slug":"questions-for-dead-celebs-join","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2009\/10\/questions-for-dead-celebs-join.html","title":{"rendered":"Questions for Dead Celebs? Join the Tweance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/assets_c\/2009\/10\/ghost-8557.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/10\/ghost-thumb-400x321-8557.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"321\" alt=\"ghost.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span>Want to ask Michael Jackson how he really died or get Patrick Swayze&#8217;s opinion on whether his &#8220;Ghost&#8221; role came in handy as he transitioned to the afterlife? (What? Too soon?) Or are you old-school, looking to connect with Elvis or Marilyn beyond the grave? If these situations appeal to you &#8211; and you enjoy the concept of a 140-character limit &#8211; then you might want to join the Tweance.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s a Tweance? Any scholar of contemporary internet-infused lingo might guess the word&#8217;s origin: the &#8220;Tw&#8221; from microblogging site Twitter and the &#8220;eance&#8221; from the word &#8220;seance.&#8221; This <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2009\/10\/12\/tweance\/\" target=\"_blank\">first Twitter seance<\/a> will happen on October 30th (because of Halloween&#8230;) and is the brainchild of psychic Jayne Wallace: from now until the event, she&#8217;ll be taking nominations for the four celebrities she should contact during the Tweance, as well as questions readers would like posed to the dearly departed.<br \/>\nReaders are supposed to tweet their nominations and questions to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tweance\" target=\"_blank\">@tweance<\/a> with a hashtag of #tweance.<br \/>\nThe @tweance Twitter account is run by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fancydress.com\/content\/twitter_seance\" target=\"_blank\">Angels Fancy Dress<\/a>, a London costumes shop. Because it doesn&#8217;t take a psychic to know that life &#8211; or contacting the dead &#8211; is easier when you have a corporate sponsor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter users will have the chance to ask questions of dead celebrities during October 30th&#8217;s first ever &#8220;Tweance&#8221; &#8211; a seance conducted over Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities","category-pop-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Questions for Dead Celebs? 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