Newspapers, magazines, TV networks and online conglomerates are laying off journalists left and right, but even the sad crumbling world of professional news delivery has a fortunate one percent. This elite group now includes Ben Parr, whose employer Mashable, the tech blog, paid him a $250,000 retention bonus only to…

Ben Parr was offered payola; Rebecca Dana let loose on the Wall Streeet Journal; and Paris Hilton had an unlikely encounter with Dr. Dre. The Twitterati didn't need to drink to let loose.

Dr. Drew Pinsky turned into a self-harming cutter; Diablo Cody disagreed with the internet and a CNN anchor got dissed. Things went pear shaped for the Twitterati.