I’m stealing “Lana Del Rey THAT” as my new catchphrase. Hat tips to WOW!
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Cameron Diaz Weighs in on Sound of Music Live
I was too busy poisoning my tonsils with bourbon at last night’s annual Mercury karaoke party to hate-watch NBC’s The Sound of Music Live starring Carrie Underwood. Luckily for us, Cameron Diaz was watching and tweeted the definitive opinion on the subject. And really… isn’t that all that any of us need to know?
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I’ve Got Drones in Different Area Codes
The real question: Who filled out the form? I missed an Amazon drone delivery. pic.twitter.com/neJxYANj6p— B to A to the R R Y (@QuantumPirate) December 2, 2013 Related.
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Yay! More “Celebrity Mean Tweets”!
Jimmy Kimmel’s “Celebrity Mean Tweets” segments are not only consistently hilarious, they play a valuable public service: Hopefully mean tweeters will watch this and say, “Hey, I really hurt that celebrity’s feelings… and I got on TV. LET’S DO IT AGAIN!!”
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A Call for Socializing Social Media
Benjamin Kunkle at n+1 has issued a manifesto: 1. Social media should be socialized because services tend to be or become monopolies. Most private enterprises, whatever their business, have at least a few competitors. Large social media companies—Facebook, Twitter—tend to lack competitors, for the simple reason that their platforms are not compatible. I can’t create […]
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Stephen Colbert's Newest Tweet Machine!
Fox News has been having a rough time of it lately—for allegedly creating false Twitter accounts to bolster their image, and for… you know… lying all the time. Luckily for them Stephen Colbert is there to help them out by setting up a brand new Twitter account called @RealHumanPraise, which substitutes Fox News anchors into […]
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Does This Make You Have a Feeling? Selfies at Funerals: The Tumblr
“Love my hair today. Hate why I’m dressed up #funeral”
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Joyce Evans: Reigning Media Twitter Queen!
Yesterday I alerted you to the hilariously tone deaf tweet by Philly’s FOX 29 reporter Joyce Evans, who compared a local drive-by shooting/murder to an episode of Breaking Bad in order to lure in viewers. Though she’s furiously backpedaling at the moment, and I suggested she should have her Twitter feed taken away forever, a […]
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South Park‘s Alec Baldwin is the Best Alec Baldwin (Much Better than the Real Alec Baldwin)
Last night’s South Park slams Alec Baldwin, homophobia, Twitter, thumbs, and generalized internet diarrhea all in one HEEE-LARIOUSLY perfect clip. Watch this quick before they yank it! (Audio NSFW!)
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Using Photoshop For Evil
Today’s most terrifying Internet thing. Face-swapping kids and dolls. Officially the creepiest thing the Internet has ever made. Shut. It. Down. http://t.co/JWYgpeCLvZ— Joe Hanson (@jtotheizzoe) August 20, 2013
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More and More, Governments Are Requesting Private Information from Twitter
Twitter, which has apparently been much better about saying no to the NSA than the other tech giants, says that more and more governments want to get a hold of your private information: The company’s latest transparency report, now a biannual affair, shows a steady increase in information requests from governments around the world, including […]
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Does Twitter Put a Kink in Your Armor, and Eventually Kill You? A Blogtown Poll
After his Twitter blow-up last week in which he called Daily Mail reporter George Stark a “queen” and insinuated he liked anal sex (in my family, that’s a compliment), Alec Baldwin has vowed to quit Twitter FOREVER. Here’s what he told Vanity Fair when asked if he would return to the social media platform: Never. […]