Stand-up comedian, actor and author Michael Ian Black has amassed almost 2 million Twitter followers since his first tweet pre-2010.
The Twitter early adopter is opinionated about everything from Angie Harmon’s hair to guitar solos – as well as his right to send and get paid for sponsored tweets.
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Twitter: The place where old and new collide in every way. It’s the place where wit wins the day and where bullies of every variety can feel a little better about themselves by making someone else feel a little ‘less.’
And the latest war of words to take Twitter by storm is a hashtag battle between teens and adults – and it’s pretty funny. And kind of sad.
If you followed the Boston Marathon news last week on Twitter, you likely read lots of false information.
Many users tweeted the name of one “suspect” who wasn’t and there were endless “this is happening now!” assertions about events that (again) weren’t, from folks listening to scanners.
As a result, there a few red faces this week, embarrassed they tweeted such things – and kind of angry, it seems, at Twitter.
Ever wonder why men sabotage each other in the work place? Or if men can really “have it all,” with fulfilling work AND home lives?
No, of course not, those questions are ridiculous. And that’s the point of the #EdgyHeadlines hashtag on Twitter – to show just how misguided those questions (about women) really are.
Twitter has a few well-known loves. Sports would top the list and is probably tied with celebrities, followed closely behind by politics and ridiculous trending topics. But you might be surprised to learn about Tweeple’s other love – religion (or at least the Pope).
And the Dalai Lama is pretty popular too.
Disgruntled Instagrammers were already being wooed away by its competitor, Flickr – and now it seems Instagram is in a full on self-inflicted death spiral.
Or so one would think, reading Twitter.
Were you able to take part in any of the Cyber Monday deals taking place all over the web today?
Hopefully you weren’t fooled into purchasing any counterfeit items! For although everyone knows a true Frey Wille can only be purchased in a boutique for thousands of dollars, knock-offs are tempting, aren’t they?
But have no fear, the government is here to protect you from yourself.
Nate Silver is a (the?) leading statistician in the U.S. and author of a book on making predictions called The Signal and the Noise (#2 right now on Amazon) – and, in case you didn’t know, the person who flew in the face of pundits to stand by his prediction that Obama would be reelected.
And Twitter loves this seemingly socially awkward dude.
Twitter is a funny place. A joke hashtag one day could make you a tweeting outcast the next.
Take #FirstWorldProblems for instance. If you’ve been on Twitter for any length of time, you’ve likely seen silly tweets attached to this hashtag. Well, add “Getting guff on Twitter” to your #FirstWorldProblems list, because the hashtag starting to seriously tick off some people.
We all know what has been happening in the Middle East in response to the “Innocence of Muslims” movie (if you don’t – get off social networks and read some news).
Well, on Twitter folks are talking about #MuslimRage, but not in the way you’d expect.
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