Uh oh. It looks like an overzealous social media intern has let it slip that Justin Timberlake will be hosting the season finale of SNL. If only there was an “are you sure, absolutely sure, you want to tweet this?” popup every time an intern tweeted…
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Hip hop icon Snoop Dogg is urging all aspiring musicians to embrace Twitter if they want to succeed because the platform has become the “number one” tool for any artist.

Snoop, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, credits Twitter with keeping him in the limelight.

“I feel it’s the number one key in music right now,” he says, “Having that relationship with fans where it’s not based on your record label, it’s based on you. When you are tweeting, it’s not about what label you’re on, it’s about you dealing with your fans directly.”

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What a pair of unlikely bedfellows. UberSocial for Blackberry and 50 Cent are partnering to bring you “Uber50″, a Twitter Client for Blackberry that comes with logos, icons, background art and even sounds from G-Unit Records rapper 50 Cent.
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Mounting pressure on Twitter is credited as being part of the reason Kobe Bryant was so quick to apologize for a gay slur he made during Tuesday night’s Lakers game. Twitter played a central role in eliciting a response from Bryant and appeasing the gay community within 24 hours of the offending slur.
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… Mia.

(Yeah, I was expecting Fang as well.)

Partnering with the New York Daily News, the Bronx Zoo let the public submit their favourite name for the high-profile escapee, and more than 34,000 people responded with their nominations.

Mia was nominated 222 times and received 15,972 votes, or 27 per cent of the total.

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If you’ve got a favorite show on CBS, next week is a week not to miss – the stars of entertainment, sports and music shows will be live tweeting during broadcasts April 3rd to April 11th. We’ve got the skinny on who will be tweeting and how you can hear from your favorite celebs on Twitter below.
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Popularity on Twitter has always been a slightly controversial topic. Most studies (and critics) agree that large follower counts aren’t necessarily indicative of anything, certainly influence, and it’s very easy to game Twitter to artificially increase your numbers (superficial as those networks always, always are).

But: people love lists, and people love winners, so lists of who is winning on Twitter – inasmuch as popularity has always been a commonly-applied measure of success in all mediums – go down as smoothly as a five-dollar milkshake.

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Research scientist Duncan Watts and his team at Yahoo! Research have published an interesting study that looks at the effect of elite users – celebrities, media outlets, organisations and power bloggers – and ‘ordinary’ users (everybody else) on the network.

Taking their information from Twitter lists, the research hoped to prove a difficult field of communication theory known as Lasswell’s Maxim, which ponders “who says what to whom in which channel with what effect”.

In other words: at the thick end, who influences who? And what does this mean for brands looking to utilise Twitter for marketing? Read more

Christina Aguilera (@TheRealXtina) has finally signed up to Twitter, and while she’s picked up some early traction, her arrival hasn’t exactly put Charlie Sheen in his place.

Aguilera currently stands at around 143,000 followers, and while this is certainly nothing to complain about, it’s a far cry from the impact Sheen made on the network, when he recruited three-quarters of a million fans in less than half a day, and has already breached Twitter’s top 50.

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It’s Monday, Monday, and yesterday was Sunday…and a few days before that was Friday, Friday, when 13-year-old viral video sensation Rebecca Black joined Twitter. However, Black’s official account isn’t the most popular Rebecca Black account out there – a parody account that has recently capitalized on the jaw-dropping success of “Friday, Friday” has more than double the number of followers.
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