Russian roulette with the UK tabloids
Reading the tabloids recently it looks like new social-media superstar Chatroulette is currently running the gauntlet of the UK press. The variety of stories published on the emerging phenomenon vary enormously from the traditional UK tabloid fear angle right down to the fact that Kate Moss is apparently ‘addicted’ to using the site (she obviously couldn’t just ‘like it’). I would imagine the prospect of seeing Kate Moss on the other end of the camera has just driven the number of hits amongst the adolescent male market through the roof. It will be interesting to see how the site handles its reputation, going from small start-up to worldwide web megastar is probably quite daunting for a 17 year old.
In the mean-time, the site has already started generating people who will doubtless be hailed as Internet superstars, including the guy below who is using Chatroulette for far more innocent and entertaining purposes.
