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Twitter Challenges Instagram, Will Add Photo Filters
December 9, 2012 – 11:41 am | No Comment
Twitter Challenges Instagram, Will Add Photo Filters

The competition between Twitter and Instagram, two seemingly different social media apps, may have just escalated into an outright battle for users’ loyalty. AllThingsD reports that Twitter is developing photo filters for its mobile app …

Rihanna Tweets A Picture Of Chris Brown Shirtless In Bed
November 26, 2012 – 5:33 pm | No Comment
Rihanna Tweets A Picture Of Chris Brown Shirtless In Bed

Rihanna and Chris Brown may have just sang that their relationship is “Nobody’s Business” for the duet of the same name off Ri-Ri’s latest album Unapologetic (press play below). But, the the on-again, off-again and …

Les Miserables Gets Applause, Positive Early Reviews
November 26, 2012 – 2:41 pm | No Comment
<i>Les Miserables</i> Gets Applause, Positive Early Reviews

Director Tom Hooper‘s movie musical Les Misérables had its first screening this past weekend, and the early reviews of the film (via social media) are gushing. Collider reported that each musical number “was followed by …

CBS Sports Writer Calls UFC ‘Homoerotic’; Apologizes Days Later
November 21, 2012 – 5:28 pm | No Comment
CBS Sports Writer Calls UFC ‘Homoerotic’; Apologizes Days Later

Seth Davis should have known better.
The CBS College Basketball reporter must not have been thinking when he tweeted some disparaging remarks about the UFC on Saturday.
“Looking on news sites showing picture of two muscular bloody …

Israel And Hamas Battle… On Twitter
November 15, 2012 – 10:37 am | No Comment
Israel And Hamas Battle… On Twitter

The escalating violence in Israel and Gaza this week has a new front: Twitter. Official accounts for both the Israeli Defense Forces and Hamas are tweeting steady streams of news, video, and public relations statements …

Justin Bieber Speaks On Breakup With Selena Gomez
November 13, 2012 – 3:56 pm | One Comment
Justin Bieber Speaks On Breakup With Selena Gomez

The heartache Justin Bieber is suffering from after his very recent breakup with Selena Gomez is definitely showing.
“I don’t know what to say,” he told Open House Party over the weekend. “I don’t know what’s …

HOAX: Did Anyone Actually Go #BaldForBieber?
October 28, 2012 – 12:03 pm | No Comment
HOAX: Did Anyone Actually Go #BaldForBieber?

Don’t believe everything you read. It was as true in the analog era as it is in the digital. As if to prove that point, a hoax this week  pushed past the usual fake news …

Does Twitter Make You Smarter?
October 21, 2012 – 4:36 pm | No Comment
Does Twitter Make You Smarter?

Until now, the general consensus was that the Internet is making us stupider. Condensing thought into 140 characters in particular has been seen as an intellectually diminishing act. The fact that Kim Kardashian has 16 …

Shaunie O’Neal Planning Basketball Wives: LA Makeover?
October 19, 2012 – 8:53 am | 2 Comments
Shaunie O’Neal Planning <i>Basketball Wives: LA</i> Makeover?

Shaunie O’Neal, the creator and executive producer of the Basketball Wives franchise, may be planning a total makeover of the Los Angeles version of the show. Basketball Wives: L.A. has already seen changes made to …

Nicki Minaj Goes Ham On Mariah Carey On Twitter: “Don’t Shake If You Don’t Wanna Get Shook!”
October 5, 2012 – 12:48 pm | No Comment
Nicki Minaj Goes Ham On Mariah Carey On Twitter: “Don’t Shake If You Don’t Wanna Get Shook!”

Things are quickly going from bad to worse for Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey.
After Mariah called her girl Barbara Walters on “The View” and claimed multiple people heard Minaj say, “If I had a gun, I would …

Is Twitter More Popular Than Facebook Yet?
October 3, 2012 – 11:20 am | No Comment
Is Twitter More Popular Than Facebook Yet?

Are you on Twitter yet? Of course you are. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last two or three years, you have—at the very least—signed up for a Twitter account, sent out …

Pink Refers To Chris Brown’s Fans As “Haters” And “Monsters”
September 25, 2012 – 10:52 am | One Comment
Pink Refers To Chris Brown’s Fans As “Haters” And “Monsters”

The Olympics might be over. But, we smell another battle brewing. So, let the games begin!
It all started when Pink dissed Chris Brown via Twitter after watching his performance at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards …

Where Are The Rudest Users On Twitter?
August 20, 2012 – 8:47 am | No Comment
Where Are The Rudest Users On Twitter?

A lot of sentiment can be squeezed into a 140 characters- emotions from all across the spectrum of human experience. TwitterHeatmap decided to visualize two of those emotions by mapping out the uses of two …

Man Accuses Progressive Insurance Of Defending His Sister’s Killer; Twitter Responds
August 15, 2012 – 10:19 am | One Comment
Man Accuses Progressive Insurance Of Defending His Sister’s Killer; Twitter Responds

Score another protest for social media: Progressive Insurance has been forced to respond and may have to take further action after just two days of negative attention from a Tumblr post. Matt Fisher, a comedian in New …

Much Ado About Miley Cyrus’s New Short Haircut
August 13, 2012 – 1:32 pm | 2 Comments
Much Ado About Miley Cyrus’s New Short Haircut

Possibly signaling a new maturity as she nears the end of her teens, Miley Cyrus has debuted a drastic new haircut.
The recently engaged actress/singer (to Australian actor Liam Hemsworth) took to Twitter to publicly broadcast …

Miley Cyrus Debuts Her Super Skinny Waist In Her “Fiance Jeans”
August 5, 2012 – 12:45 pm | 2 Comments
Miley Cyrus Debuts Her Super Skinny Waist In Her “Fiance Jeans”

Forget boyfriend jeans and boy shorts! Miley Cyrus is heralding the arrival of a new trend: the” fiancee jeans.”
The 19-year-old singer showed off her whittled waist in a recent Twitpic sent to her 7 million followers …

Obama Leads In Brand New “Twitter Index”
August 2, 2012 – 9:11 am | No Comment
Obama Leads In Brand New “Twitter Index”

Move over, Quinnipiac: Twitter got into the world of political polling this week when they introduced the Twitter Index, a new indicator of a candidate’s popularity on the microblogging site. On the inaugural day yesterday, …

Fake NY Times Article Fools The Media
August 1, 2012 – 9:17 am | No Comment
Fake <i>NY Times</i> Article Fools The Media

Last week, former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller had a stunning change of heart, as he wrote an op-ed defending embattled WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange and supporting the reporters who use information from WikiLeaks reports. …

#NBCFail: Twitter Gives Network Harsh Criticism For Tape Delays
July 30, 2012 – 9:08 am | One Comment
#NBCFail: Twitter Gives Network Harsh Criticism For Tape Delays

The Olympics are a ratings coup for NBC, which has exclusive rights to broadcast the games in the US. But this year, that benefit is coming at a price as critics lambast the network for …

Should Sports Coaches Be Allowed To Ban Their Players From Twitter?
July 29, 2012 – 12:10 pm | No Comment
Should Sports Coaches Be Allowed To Ban Their Players From Twitter?

Athletes say and do some really, really stupid things on Twitter. That statement doesn’t come as a surprise, does it? After all, we’ve seen athletes take photos with weed in the frame and post it …

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