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'General Hospital' star James Franco trades Twitter for Tisch

By April MacIntyre Apr 5, 2011, 5:10 GMT

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After dialing in a lackluster Oscar hosting performance, James Franco declares that Twitter is over and has deleted his account, as he heads for NYU.

Franco had starred in a recurring role as a psycho killer artist on daytime serial General Hospital. Now he will teach acting class at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts next fall semester.

Franco’s class will focus on the adaptation of poetry into short films, with the class size limited to 10-12 third year graduate students.

The New York Post reported that John Tintori, Chair of Tisch’s graduate program, thinks Franco will do an exceptional job.  Franco’s students will have to complete a short film by the end of the semester focusing on production.

Tintori told the NYPost that Franco might even make the cut as a staple professor in the program for many years to come.

But he won't be tweeting about it from class.

“Social media is over. Still up there. Going down. You heard it here first,” Franco, whose Twitter account has been shut down, told Politico last week at a benefit event for a creative writing nonprofit 826’s Washington D.C. chapter.

“My thought was, ‘This is my Twitter. I can do whatever I want.’ But certain companies I work with contacted me about what I was saying,” Franco explained.