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Twitter Unveils Redesign
 Twitter Unveils Redesign 
Sep 15, 2010 1:19 AM CDT

Twitter Unveils Redesign

Revamped site makes it easier to view multimedia content

(Newser) - Twitter has unveiled the first major redesign of its homepage in the site's four-year history. The relaunched site, which will be rolled out to users over the next few weeks, will give tweeters a better, faster experience, say execs. The new site is split into two panes, with the second...

Gaga, Harry Reid Exchange Tweets on 'Don't Ask'

Pop star asks her fans to help repeal it

(Newser) - Apparently it's Lady Gaga In the News Day. Her latest headline-grabbing act: Instructing her fans, via Twitter , to "CALL HARRY REID to Schedule Senate Vote" and "Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell." She tweeted the message along with a picture of herself at the MTV Video Music Awards...

Twitter Fight! Palin Zings Back at Schwarzenegger

Says she could teach him a thing or two about budgets

(Newser) - After Arnold Schwarzenegger needled Sarah Palin via Twitter about being able to see Russia from his plane, she got the last word (we hope) in a new tweet : "Arnold should have landed; I could have explained our multi-billion dollar state surplus & US energy security efforts. What's he been...

GOP Tweets Democratic Staffers' Home Addresses

Perriello-Hurt race in Virginia takes nasty turn

(Newser) - A nasty congressional race in Virginia has gotten a little nastier, via Twitter. A National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman tweeted the home addresses of several Democratic campaign staffers, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports. He posted the addresses of staffers working for Rep. Tom Perriello's campaign after the Perriello camp called his...

3% of Twitter Traffic Bieber-Related

We wish we were making this up

(Newser) - In a terrifying sign of what our world has come to, Gizmodo reports that 3% of Twitter traffic is devoted to ... Justin Bieber. Designer Dustin Curtis tweeted a quote from a Twitter employee Monday: "At any moment, Justin Bieber uses 3% of our infrastructure. Racks of servers are dedicated...

Kanye West Writes Song for Taylor Swift

He uses Twitter to apologize again

(Newser) - Kanye West took to Twitter this morning— many, many times —to apologize to Taylor Swift anew for interrupting her VMA speech last year and to say he's written a song for her, reports the Daily News . A stunt ahead of this year's show on Sept. 12 and a rumored...

Medvedev Rips Into Pol: No Tweeting!

Tweet-happy official immediately blames another for squealing

(Newser) - Dmitry Medvedev is mod enough to have a vlog, but that didn't stop President Crankypants from slamming a lawmaker who was busily tweeting during a Kremlin meeting yesterday. "There's Nikita Yurievich Belykh sitting there and writing in Twitter right from the State Council session," Medvedev sniped. "Apparently,...

Cusack Wants 'Satanic Death Cult Center at Fox News'

Yep, it's celebrity rant time again on Twitter

(Newser) - The latest celebrity to go on a Twitter rampage: John Cusack. Cusack, who has often spoken out about his liberal political views, tweeted Sunday night: “I AM FOR A SATANIC DEATH CULT CENTER AT FOX NEWS HQ AND OUTSIDE THE OFFICES ORDICK ARMEYAND NEWT GINGRICH-and all the GOP WELFARE...

Ocho Cinco Slapped With $25K Tweet Fine

Player fined '2 Bugatti payments' for in-game tweets

(Newser) - Chad Ocho Cinco has been fined $25,000 for giving fans 140-character updates during preseason games last Friday. The Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver sent his 1.1 million Twitter followers two messages during his team's 22-9 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles. The league fined him for possession of an electronic...

Palin Loses Black Support Over Tweets on Dr. Laura

Black GOP'ers call her 'scary, 'unfit to lead'

(Newser) - Sarah Palin’s defense of Dr. Laura on Twitter may have badly damaged her among black Republicans. John Avlon of The Daily Beast spoke with several black conservative leaders, and they were not kind. “It says that a leading voice among conservatives has joined the ranks of the entertainers—...

Courtney's Birthday Wishes to Daughter: Rambling, Nasty
Courtney's Birthday Wishes to Daughter: Rambling, Nasty
twitter drama
Aug 20, 2010 10:33 AM CDT

Courtney's Birthday Wishes to Daughter: Rambling, Nasty

Love could 'ruiinher,' she warns

(Newser) - Courtney Love, always an excellent candidate for Mother of the Year, is well on her way to scoring this year’s award. Evidence? Her birthday wishes to daughter Frances Bean Cobain. One day after Frances turned 18, Love took to Twitter (where else?) to inform her offspring that, “youve...

Twitter Fight! S. Korea Blocks North's Tweets

Seoul apparently worried about the propaganda

(Newser) - Don't they have this backward? After North Korea took a shine to Twitter , South Korea is censoring its tweets. The North began tweeting a week ago—propaganda, along the lines of 'we didn't sink that boat'—and the South has just blocked its residents from accessing the feed, the Guardian...

Texting While Driving Likely Caused Celeb Surgeon's Crash

Heidi Montag's doctor went over Malibu cliff

(Newser) - Dr. Frank Ryan, plastic surgeon to the stars, was texting while driving just before he went over a cliff in Malibu and died, his ex-girlfriend tells People . Ryan, who performed surgery on Heidi Montag among others, reportedly went over the side around 4:30pm. Shortly before that, he tweeted a...

Now on Twitter: North Korea?!
 Now on Twitter: North Korea?! 
Aug 16, 2010 7:02 PM CDT

Now on Twitter: North Korea?!

Official outlet sets up its 140-character shop

(Newser) - If you're among those wondering just what the hell Kim Jong-Il is thinking, well, you'll probably never know. But Dear Leader's iron fist on information has loosened just enough for Pyongyang to establish its first official Twitter presence, reports Mashable. The Uriminzokkiri ("Our Nation") official website set up...

Beiber Tweets Foe's Phone Number

Today in the world of gossip you only know about if you're 13

(Newser) - Justin Bieber seems so sweet and adorable, right? But he is apparently not above tweeting an enemy's phone number to his 4.5 million followers. Gawker reports that the foe in question, teen Kevin Kristopik, allegedly hacked the Twitter account of one of the Bieb's childhood friends and got Justin's...

Twitter, YouTube Get Movie Trailers

 Twitter, YouTube Get 
 Movie Trailers 
hilarious spoofs
Aug 13, 2010 9:15 AM CDT

Twitter, YouTube Get Movie Trailers

Fake movies look better than 'The Social Network'

(Newser) - The debut of the melodramatic trailer for The Social Network—aka "the Facebook movie"—was basically guaranteed to be followed by parodies. Luckily, the spoofs are pretty darn hilarious. So far Twitter (sample line: "I need to create a way to blog that is as random and...

Meet MTV's 'Twitter Jockey'
 Meet MTV's 'Twitter Jockey' 
salary: $100K a year
Aug 10, 2010 8:49 AM CDT

Meet MTV's 'Twitter Jockey'

Gabi Gregg won the reality competition for 'TJ' title

(Newser) - College is clearly a waste of time : All you need to do to earn $100,000 a year is be a really, really good tweeter. That's how much Gabi Gregg, a 23-year-old from Detroit, will earn when she officially starts her job as MTV's first "Twitter Jockey" (or "...

Twitter Nabs Subway Flasher
 Twitter Nabs Subway Flasher 
Aug 9, 2010 5:30 AM CDT

Twitter Nabs Subway Flasher

Tweeted photo leads cops to perv

(Newser) - When a flasher started openly fondling himself on a Boston subway last week, fellow passenger Nay Khun took the issue to Twitter. Khun snapped and immediately tweeted a photo of the flasher, writing: "pervert on the 2nd car of the red line ... help me report him." Thanks in...

Beck Favorites White Supremacist Tweet

Then deletes it when someone notices

(Newser) - Until recently, Glenn Beck had a pretty eyebrow-raising tweet on his “favorites” page on Twitter. On Monday, the StopBeck blog noticed that the top tweet on Beck’s favorite page was from MalevoFreedom, a white supremacist account that uses the neo-Nazi Stormfront logo as its Twitter icon. The tweet...

Random Guy Kanye's Following: Leave Me Alone

Steve Holmes not a fan of his instant fame

(Newser) - The random woman Conan O’Brien decided to follow on Twitter got a new computer , donations to her cancer walk , and the wedding of her dreams . The random guy Kanye West decided to follow on Twitter just got…annoyed. “Before this weekend I thought it would be cool to...

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