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Tony Hawk's Twitter Treasure Hunts

Celebs have invaded Twitter! Celebrities Twittering is a social media perfect storm. This elite sect of Twitterati is extremely thumbnail photogenic, well-trained in innovative ways of seeking attention/letting it all hang out, and most importantly for us travel geeks, constantly traveling the world. This week we're looking at who's Tweeting what from where. Any Celeb Twitterers we should follow? Let us know.

Tony Hawk doesn't seem so sure of what Twitter is and he only started doing it a few months ago because he was hearing so much about it in the media. Sigh. But we'll forgive him that because he's started a Twitter Treasure Hunt with skateboards.

Recently Hawk and his friends stashed signed Tony Hawk skateboards in different cities across the US and in some international places and then Twittered clues to his followers about where they were. The directions were pretty specific so it was really just a race to see who gets there first.

CNN's iReport interviewed Hawk about the treasure hunts and he said while the organization of the whole event was challenging, mostly in terms of reading the @replies, he does want to do again on a larger scale. It took him some time but he finally managed to retweet the replies of people who found his skateboards, like these cute kids.

Of course, Hawk is not the first celeb to conduct these sort of Twitter treasure hunts. Lily Allen has been doing it at each concert stop, twittering locations where tickets will be given to out to Twitter followers. And while he's no Lance Armstrong, we can't knock people who give things away for free.

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