A startling number of teen girls have admitted to having a schoolgirl crush on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, proclaiming their love for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect on social media. It’s a disturbing trend on sites like Twitter and Facebook, where girls have admitted to finding Dzhokhar Tsarnaev attractive, and herald him in the ranks of Justin [...]
May 15 2013 | Posted in
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Amanda Bynes took to Twitter as usual, this time to reveal she had a nose job. Amanda Bynes, 27, claims: “I had a nose job to remove skin that was like a webbing in between my eyes. Having surgery was the most amazing thing for my confidence!” The troubled actress said she wanted to be [...]
May 6 2013 | Posted in
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China’s biggest e-commerce group Alibaba has bought an 18% stake in Weibo, China’s largest Twitter-like service, as it looks to tap into the fast-growing social media sector. Alibaba will pay $586 million for the stake, valuing Weibo at over $3.2 billion. The deal is expected to help Alibaba drive traffic from Weibo, which has more [...]
Real Housewives of Atlanta star Porsha Stewart says her divorce was such a surprise that she found out about it on Twitter even though she was still living with her estranged husband, Kordell Stewart. After watching herself defend Kordell Stewart on part three of The Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion, Porsha took the chair on [...]
Apr 22 2013 | Posted in
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More than half of Justin Bieber’s followers on Twitter are fake, suggests a report which looked into social media profiles on the networking service. Justin Bieber, 19, has the most followers in the world after overtaking Lady Gaga last year. However, the research claims out of the singer’s 37.3 million followers, only 17.8 million are linked [...]
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Cher fans were confused yesterday after they misread a Twitter hashtag referring to the death of Margaret Thatcher. Soon after news broke Margaret Thatcher had passed away from a stroke, critics of the conservative politician started spreading the hashtag #nowthatcherisdead on the micro-blogging site. But Cher fans misinterpreted the hashtag, reading it as “Now that [...]
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Miley Cyrus took to Twitter late Friday night with a series of snaps displaying her newly acquired rocker look. Miley Cyrus, 20, has recently opted for an edgier look – including a tomboyish bob and lots of leather and red lipstick. The portraits were full of playful swagger as she and some of her friends [...]
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Amanda Bynes has gone on a Twitter rant against an unnamed ex. Amanda Bynes, 26, wrote on Twitter: “When you write me on twitter and I ignore you it’s because I plan on ignoring you on twitter and in life forever.” Yesterday the troubled actress had written: “If I’m not following you on twitter Quit [...]
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It looks like Google users are prime targets for pranks on April Fool’s Day. Google has gone all out with an array of pranks beginning with Google Nose – the newest addition to the search engine’s capabilities. Google Nose apparently allows users to search the “Aromabase” of more than 15 million Scentibytes then catch a [...]
Amanda Bynes, who has undergone a dramatic makeover and just yesterday morning showed off her cheek piercings, posted a raunchy message to rapper Drake on her Twitter account. The former What I Like About You star posted: “I want @drake to murder my v….. .” Amanda Bynes’ message has been re-tweeted 6,392 times in over [...]
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Facebook announced they would be borrowing a page from Twitter’s manual and introducing hashtags (#) onto its site. According to The Week, no specific date has been announced for the introduction, but soon Facebook users who click on a word preceded by a hashtag will bring up all Facebook posts tagged with that hashtag. Hashtags [...]
Satirical news website The Onion came under fire after branding 9-year-old Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis as a “c***” on Twitter. The Onion said in a post during last night’s Oscars ceremony: “Everybody else seems afraid to say it, but that Quvenzhané Wallis is kind of a c*** right?” The tweet to The Onion’s millions of [...]
Feb 25 2013 | Posted in
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Donald Trump’s Twitter account has been hacked, and the real estate mogul was not amused by the prank. “Twitter will soon be irrelevant if lowlifes are so easily able to hack into accounts,” Donald Trump fumed. In an earlier message, Donald Trump had confirmed that his account was “seriously hacked” and added, “we are looking [...]
Feb 21 2013 | Posted in
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Burger King’s Twitter account was hacked by a McDonald’s fan. Burger King’s Twitter page, which has more than 89,000 followers, has been changed to feature their rival’s food and even their logo and Twitter name have been changed, appearing as McDonalds @BurgerKing. The first sign of trouble was a post made from the official Burger [...]
Feb 18 2013 | Posted in
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Rapper Azealia Banks has become embroiled in a bitter Twitter row with Perez Hilton after slapping her own verses over the top of DJ Baauer’s Harlem Shake. Azealia Banks, 21, let rip in a bizarre foul-mouthed rant on Twitter after her version of the hit track was removed from Soundcloud – branding the New York [...]
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Amanda Bynes branded Jay-Z “ugly face” on her Twitter page. It was not long before the message was deleted, which suggests Amanda Bynes either had second thoughts or her account was hacked. In fact there was a massive cull on Amanda Bynes’ page, with just 13 messages being left by the time she had done [...]
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Vine, Twitter’s new mobile video-sharing app, has had its age rating increased after it was flooded with explicit videos. The age limit has been raised from 12+ on Apple’s store to 17+, which is the highest rating. Vine was launched last month and within days hundreds of explicit videos were uploaded, leading to complaints from [...]
Flight attendant Tatiana Kozlenko, who posted a picture of herself giving her passengers the finger, has been sacked by Aeroflot airline. Tatiana Kozlenko put the snap up on her personal page on Vkontakte, one of Russia’s most popular Facebook-style social networks. Within hours the snap – which appears to show the arm of an air [...]
Feb 6 2013 | Posted in
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Up to 250,000 Twitter users have had their accounts hacked in the latest of a string of high-profile internet security breaches. Twitter’s information security director Bob Lord said users’ passwords had been stolen, as well as usernames, emails and other data. Affected users have had passwords invalidated and have been sent emails informing them. Bob Lord [...]
Twitter has launched Vine video sharing service, an addition to the social network that allows users to embed six second videos within their tweets. Vine was used first by Twitter boss Dick Costolo, who posted a clip of himself making steak tartare. Twitter bought out developer Vine Labs, a start-up based in New York, in [...]
Pope Benedict XVI is to begin sending Twitter messages using the handle @pontifex as his personal account, the Vatican has announced. A spokesman said Pope Benedict XVI wanted to “reach out to everyone” with tweets translated into eight languages. The first tweet from his account, whose name means both pontiff and builder of bridges, is [...]
Lindsay Lohan’s performance as Hollywood great Elizabeth Taylor in new biopic Liz & Dick has been met with jibes and laughter by critics after sparking thousands of Twitter jibes. Lindsay Lohan, 26, made her hotly anticipated appearance as the Oscar winner on Lifetime movie Liz & Dick, watched by a not-so impressive 3.5 million viewers, [...]
Nov 26 2012 | Posted in
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Author Helen Fielding has begun work on a third Bridget Jones novel, 13 years after its predecessor. With a new film and a musical based on the singleton in the pipeline, Helen Fielding turned to the world of texting and Twitter to help her write a new “scenario for Bridget”. “I’m having a lot of [...]
Nov 10 2012 | Posted in
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Many of Americans were upset when Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney lost the election and most of them used social media to post shockingly racist tweets against President Barack Obama. A map collected by Floating Sheep, a collective of geography academics, shows the shocking demographic of racist “hate tweets”, many of them collected from states [...]
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Thousands of Twitter users around the world have received emails warning their account has been compromised by a third party. Some accounts had been compromised, but other users had received the emails after Twitter had unintentionally reset unaffected passwords, the company said. The mass email coincided with incidents involving several high-profile accounts. Other media organizations, [...]
