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Sadie Ditches Twitter After Rant at Sienna
 Sadie Ditches Twitter 
 After Rant at Sienna 
JUDE'S WORLD
Jun 17, 2010 11:10 AM CDT

Sadie Ditches Twitter After Rant at Sienna

Frost wasn't too happy with daughter's haircut

(Newser) - Note to future stepmothers: Never cut your stepkid’s hair, unless you want to get reamed on Twitter. Sadie Frost freaked out when Sienna Miller, reportedly engaged to Jude Law, gave Frost’s daughter with Law a boyish haircut. “I think ya should get ya own child and then...

DJ Tweets Suicide Note
 DJ Tweets Suicide Note 
Jun 17, 2010 5:34 AM CDT

DJ Tweets Suicide Note

South Korean says farewell in under 140 characters

(Newser) - A South Korean DJ said his final farewell to the world in 140 characters or less. The family of the 27-year-old man reported him missing after he left a suicide note on Twitter, reading: "I'm going to commit suicide. To all of you, even those who shared the slightest...

Perez Tweets Miley Upskirt Pic
 Perez Tweets Miley Upskirt Pic 
child porn?
Jun 15, 2010 7:00 AM CDT

Perez Tweets Miley Upskirt Pic

Remember, she's still 17: Cue uproar

(Newser) - A star climbs out of a car with no panties on, flashing her lady parts for all to see: Miley Cyrus has officially joined the Lindsay-Britney club, compliments of...Perez Hilton. The celebrity blogger posted an upskirt photo of the teen star to his Twitter account yesterday—albeit with the...

MTV Seeks 'Twitter Jockey'
 MTV Seeks 'Twitter Jockey'
Jun 14, 2010 5:24 PM CDT

MTV Seeks 'Twitter Jockey'

Social network coordinator will command 6-figure salary

(Newser) - MTV is looking for its first TJ—Twitter Jockey—and is soliciting nominations for two more candidates. Much like the VJ, a position the network created some 20 years ago, the TJ will represent MTV in the domain of social networking. "The TJ will be your voice, and the...

2-Way Tweeting Helps Louisiana Monitor Spill
2-Way Tweeting Helps Louisiana Monitor Spill 
OPINION
Jun 14, 2010 4:35 PM CDT

2-Way Tweeting Helps Louisiana Monitor Spill

Emergency agency makes good use of give-and-take with followers

(Newser) - Like a lot of other government agencies, Louisiana's emergency-preparedness office uses its Twitter feed to keep citizens updated on issues like the Gulf oil spill. In a neat twist, the office is following thousands of its own followers, "something that a lot of government agencies in the emergency area...

10 Really Stupid Publicity Stunts
 10 Stupid Publicity Stunts 
lonelygirl115 returns
Jun 13, 2010 1:29 PM CDT

10 Stupid Publicity Stunts

Here's looking at you, Speidi

(Newser) - So Heidi Montag’s separation from Spencer Pratt was a publicity stunt…was anyone surprised? Olivia Allin lists nine other similarly lame stunts, on The Frisky :
  1. Jon Gosselin: Turns out he really was lying when he accused ex Hailey Glassman of stealing his TV. How do we know? Because the
...

Twitter Will Make You Smarter
 Twitter Will Make You Smarter 
opinion
Jun 11, 2010 12:14 PM CDT

Twitter Will Make You Smarter

Like other new media, site beefs up brain if used wisely

(Newser) - It's fashionable to cry about how Twitter and other new forms of electronic media are making us intellectually lazy and downright stupid. In fact, the opposite is true, writes Harvard's Steven Pinker. "Don’t rail at PowerPoint or Google," he writes. "It’s not as if habits...

New York Times Banishes the Word 'Tweet'

Standards editor calls it 'jargon'

(Newser) - The cool kids may call their Twitter posts “tweets,” but no one ever accused the New York Times of being a cool kid. Phil Corbett, the Times’ new standards editor, has sent out a proclamation banning the use of the word “outside of ornithological contexts,” reports...

McCain, Snooki Trade Tweets
 McCain, Snooki Trade Tweets 
beyond awkward
Jun 10, 2010 10:55 AM CDT

McCain, Snooki Trade Tweets

The senator is so down with the lingo

(Newser) - Yesterday’s Awkward Tweet of the Day Award goes to John McCain, who made the world cringe when he started up a Twitter conversation with none other than Jersey Shore’s Snooki…about tanning. “u r right, I would never tax your tanning bed! Pres Obama's tax/spend policy is...

BP Demands Changes to Prank Twitter Feed

They want it made clear that it's a fake

(Newser) - BP has asked Twitter to straighten out @BPGlobalPR , the hilariously snarky satirical feed specializing in messages like, “Doing our best to turn oil into oilinade. So far, the stuff tastes TERRIBLE.” BP has asked Twitter to force the feed to comply with the site’s impersonation policy, it...

Judge Bars Blagojevich From Tweeting in Court

But he can still talk to the press

(Newser) - Geez, now Rod Blagojevich is going to have sit still during his corruption trial. The judge today blocked his perfectly rational plan to issue live tweets from the courtroom, reports the Chicago Tribune . Judge Zagel didn't bar Blagojevich from making his many public statements before and after the proceedings, though...

10 Best Fake Twitter Feeds
 10 Best Fake Twitter Feeds 
Jun 6, 2010 11:25 AM CDT

10 Best Fake Twitter Feeds

You don't have to be the real McCoy to be hilarious

(Newser) - If only @BPGlobalPR were the real deal: The spoof account is far more entertaining than BP's actual one (find a clear demonstration of that here ). Time's Newsfeed shares 9 more spectacular, satirical Twitter feeds, with sample tweets:
  1. @FakeAP Stylebook : "'horrible tragedy'—use this phrasing to differentiate the described
...

Miffed MIA Tweets Times Reporter's Phone Number

And pretends it's her own

(Newser) - Maya Arulpragasam, aka MIA, must have really hated Lynn Hirschberg's piece about her in New York Times Magazine , because she's just plastered Hischberg's cell phone number on Twitter—pretending it's her own. “CALL ME IF YOU WANNA TALK TO ME ABOUT THE N Y T TRUTH ISSUE, ill b...

Fake BP Twitter Feed More Popular Than Real One

And a lot funnier

(Newser) - In the last few days, @BPGlobalPR has become something of a Twitter phenomenon, wracking up 44,000 followers, but BP's PR guys aren't too happy about it. Because, as will become instantly apparent to anyone who reads it, @BPGlobalPR isn't actually the oil giant's Twitter handle. It's a gag account,...

Britney Is Twitter's New Queen

 Britney Is Twitter's New Queen 
sorry, ashton
May 24, 2010 5:48 AM CDT

Britney Is Twitter's New Queen

So what if Spears herself isn't doing much of the tweeting

(Newser) - Just nine days after Mashable's prediction , it came to pass: Ashton Kutcher has been dethroned as Twitter’s reigning superstar. Britney Spears , despite a distinct lack of tweets actually posted by the singer herself, officially has the most followers on the microblogging site, though the numbers constantly fluctuate. Both are...

10 Most Creative Tweeters
 10 Most Creative Tweeters 
meet @neilhimself
May 23, 2010 8:16 AM CDT

10 Most Creative Tweeters

These folks know how to make 140 characters count

(Newser) - Fast Company surveys the world of Twitter and suggests 10 people worth following based on their creative tweeting. Full list here, along with samples . A peek:
  1. Dawn Danby, @altissima : She a "sustainable design strategist" who covers her own field, often in haiku-like form.
  2. Padmasree Warrior, @Padmasree : Cisco's chief technology
...

Brothers Meet for First Time—on Twitter

Onetime strangers discover they're relatives

(Newser) - You use social networking sites. You even type back and forth to this one guy—and you might not like him too much at first. Then, out of the blue, you receive a message from this "friend" giving personal information that only you would know about. Kind of freaky,...

Parents Council Threatens CBS Over $#*! My Dad Says
 Parents Council 
 Threatens CBS Over 
 $#*! My Dad Says 
bleeping doesn't cut it
May 21, 2010 7:39 AM CDT

Parents Council Threatens CBS Over $#*! My Dad Says

Network just wants to offend people, prez says

(Newser) - Well, that didn’t take long: The Parents Television Council is, in a not entirely shocking move, protesting new CBS show $#*! My Dad Says. The decision to include an expletive—albeit a bleeped expletive—in the name of the sitcom demonstrates the network’s “contempt for families and...

State AG Orders Twitter to Rat Out His Critics

Republican candidate for governor wants names, addresses

(Newser) - Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett has subpoenaed Twitter, demanding it release “any and all subscriber information” for two accounts that seem to mainly specialize in criticizing him. The subpoena orders Twitter to “testify and give evidence regarding alleged violations of the laws of Pennsylvania,” but doesn't specify...

What Do We Tweet About? TV, Mostly
 What Do We Tweet 
 About? TV, Mostly 
opinion
May 17, 2010 4:55 PM CDT

What Do We Tweet About? TV, Mostly

New social media still fixated on the original

(Newser) - Everybody's eager to talk about the social media "revolution." But you know what the social media conversation mostly focuses on? Old media, particularly TV. Just ask Simon Dumenco, who analyzes Twitter data every week for Advertising Age . “Old media still rules our lives,” he writes. “...

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