Celebrities on Twitter

Twitter is a great place to witness celebrity meltdowns firsthand, but it’s also a great place for them to make connections. And for musicians, this is helping more of them leap right past that “awkward introduction” phase straight to “let’s collaborate!”
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Last month, we told you about Kindergartners using Twitter and the news surprised many readers.

Well those K kids need to step aside, because we now have preschoolers competing for the “youngest Twitterer” award, and leading the pack is four-year-old Modern Family actress, Aubrey Anderson-Emmons.
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Do you love hockey? Do you love Alyssa Milano?

Then you’ll LOVE following tonight’s game via the National Hockey League’s Twitter feed, because it will be combining your two loves in one place.
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Aaah, celebrity power couples, the people we love to hate. When two prominent Hollywood-types split up, the gossip rags, talk shows and social networks light up with speculation.

But all this prying into the personal lives of famous strangers doesn’t reveal the truth as much as their own actions do. And lately, it seems like the final nail in A-list relationships’ coffins has been the dreaded unfollow on Twitter.
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Probably the silliest thing an unwed mom could do is express strong opinions about the sanctity of marriage and sit in judgement of those who do not share this world view.

Even sillier? Insisting, when you’re a single teen mom, that children raised in traditional “mom and dad” families are better off than those raised by gay parents.

Bristol Palin did both of these things in her blog post earlier today, while slamming President Obama for supporting gay marriage – and the Twitterverse went bananas.
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The Avengers movie is out and everyone is dying to see it, but New York Times film critic, A.O. Scott has a review that may surprise you. He not only roundly criticizes the movie, he takes aim at the folks going to see it too.

Well, one person reading the review, Samuel L. Jackson (who plays Nick Fury in the Avengers), isn’t having it. And he took to Twitter to stir things up.
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The TIME 100 Gala took place last night in New York City and celebrated an eclectic list of honorees deemed the 100 Most Influential People in the World. The 100 are divided into five categories: Breakouts, Pioneers, Moguls, Leaders and Icons.

The TIME Newsfeed tells us that Rick Stengel, TIME’s managing editor, “kicked off the celebration by detailing the core mission of the TIME 100: to give a louder voice to those already changing the world. In this era of emerging technologies and pervasive social media, Stengel explained that influence, has never been easier to achieve, but harder to maintain.”
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Last week we reported that, following an altercation with a fan, music star Nicki Minaj deleted her Twitter profile, and with it more than 11 million followers.

Well, that decision didn’t last too long, as Minaj reactivated her account yesterday. In the process, however, she lost an awful lot of followers – her current tally is about 10 million short.

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It looks like Jose Canseco has been showing the crazy card for a few weeks now, with his account consisting of nearly as many haters as fans (by his own admission) – and he seems to like it. Scratch that, he seems to LOVE it. What’s going on?
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William Shatner was a big name on Twitter before he was a big name on Twitter. He was the face of the Twitter-account-turned-TV-show “$#!& My Dad Says”, which, while not as popular as the account, secured Shatner a position as a Twit-lebrity.

And now, Shatner’s reached a major Twitter milestone – he’s achieved his 1 millionth follower. And he didn’t take the regular route, like tweeting a big “Thanks!” to all of his followers, to celebrate. Instead, he treated his millionth follower to dinner.
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