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The Oscars was a night of glam, gowns and golden statues, but it was also a night of Twitter.

People took to their favorite 140-character medium to discuss celebs, movies and Hollywood culture last night, and while it wasn’t a record-breaking event, there were a few notable Twitter milestones set while Hollywood’s elite rewarded 2011′s best-ofs.
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Some moments of the Oscars last night promoted a barrage of tweets, but the event was a pretty tame affair overall, according to Twitter.

There was no big drama, no crazy stunts, no acceptance speech that was embarrassingly long… which may be why the Oscars failed to compare to this year’s Grammys or Super Bowl in terms of the volume of tweets it inspired.
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2012 will be the year of Adele, if award shows hold any water these days. She won a whopping 6 Grammys earlier this month, and took home 2 Brit Awards this week. But just how is she utilizing Twitter to connect to her fans that have propelled her to musical super-stardom?
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She might be known for her ridiculous generosity on her former talk show, but Oprah Winfrey has landed herself in hot water with Nielsen by asking her fans on Twitter to give her something: their ratings.
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Indonesia is really having a love affair with Twitter. A Twitter movie called Republik Twitter is set to hit the big screen next month – just in time for Valentine’s Day.
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This one’s a strange one: Microsoft closed out its CES keynote on Monday with a Twitter choir, singing about the tweets that contained “Microsoft” and “CES” in them.
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It seems like every month there’s another indication that Twitter is moving closer and closer to the mainstream.

This week, Fox and Twitter announced that Fox’s “The X Factor” would allow viewers to cast their votes for their favorite contestants using Twitter.
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The BBC takes a look at how Twitter has made an impact on the English language, spawning an entire legion of new words that play off the name of the social network – specifically the first two letters.

Examples include Tweeple, meaning a person who uses Twitter (and is a portmanteau of the words Twitter and people), Twagiarism (Twitter and plagiarism) and Twittiquette (Twitter and etiquette).

Yes: it’s all very horrible indeed.

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Some of the most popular sports in North America are weeks away from getting starting, with professional football leading the way with college football and college basketball close behind. It is as best a time as any for players to be urged to review Tennessee basketball’s 50 tips for tweeting athletes.
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The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) took place this past Saturday, and with a pregnancy announcement from Beyoncé Knowles, Lady Gaga appearing (and performing) as a man and dozens of other major celebrity appearances, there was certainly a lot to talk about.

Impressively, Twitter completely dominated the social space chatter during the VMAs, accounting for over 98% of some 5,567,954 total mentions during the awards.

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