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more about #celebritycomputerscience more comments → Lucky: I'm in the beta group, strange since I hardly use it. The strange avatar problem should be minimized because there is an "retweet" icon in front of t... more » Matt Cherette: Am I the only one that still hasn't seen the RT button show up? Someone said it was next to the reply button that one sees when he/she scrolls over a ... more » FaceMelter: Another example of how Twitter is ultimately headed in the same direction as MySpace. Unlike in Facebook, where user growth tends to be organic, trus... more » muffincupcake: Your first spam follower might seem special: "Wow this nice lady found my twitter page and she wants to read updates about my fascinating life. And s... more » raincoaster: Lists are just Twitter's version of a TweetDeck Killer. One they can control and, if they had been intelligent, which they were not, monetize. #ellend... more » BowlingForDollars: If I thought for one second it was actually Ellen following me, and not some 22 year old intern, I might be excited (and I use that term loosely.) Wh... more » raincoaster: Well, as you all know, I'm a raging bitch. And as you may not know, the total number of tweets I've made seems to be going DOWN rather than up lately.... more » Matt Cherette: Let's test it out. All one needs to do is: 1. Make a new Twitter account (or use an already-established one), 2. make sure it's public -- so that i... more » mbroomall002: I'll wait for Eve Plumb's reaction before commenting further. more » skahammer: Well, but if Twitter drops the ball, who's going to protect me from Mickey Kaus then? Huh? The Hipster Grifter? Although on further reflection, I cou... more » jbsacks: Was that a Fonzi look-a-like helping PeeWee? more » FaceMelter: "... they taught him some secrets." Yeah, like be Pee Wee Herman. Did you watch Pee Wee's Playhouse? The guy was making content for the internet ge... more » unclevanya: We're talking Pee Wee Herman, and the internet. Without any flack's help, he would have had 40,000 followers in 48-72 hours. I hope he's not overpayin... more » sparkyl: Miley got out just in time. more » iplaudius: Tracy Morgan pissing at GCT. He saw me peeking and gave me a fierce mushroom stamp. It's still stinging. The thing looked like R2D2. more » -
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Re-Tweet Redesign Helps the Rich Get Richer on Twitter
Twitter is offering a new way to quote other people's tweets. The new "re-tweet" feature is both less useful and more confusing than the ad-hoc system that preceded it. But that's OK, because it bolsters rich celebrities and dot-com millionaires. More » -
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Ellen Exploits Twitter's Lists for Fun and Profit
The "lists" feature Twitter just rolled out has been swiftly repurposed by the celebrity-industrial complex to pump up the accounts of tweeters like Ellen DeGeneres. Lists show celebrities exactly who can send them followers. And thus who to spam. More » -
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Is Twitter Conspiring with Celebrities to Delete Your Mean Tweets?
Blogger Mickey Kaus likes to send nastygrams to famous people, on Twitter, when the mood strikes him. And yet these messages sometimes disappear from Twitter search, despite the microblogging service's well-established technical competence. Mere coincidence — ha! — or conspiracy? More » -
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The Kingmakers of Twitter Celebrity
Pee Wee Herman had more than 40,000 followers within 24 hours of joining Twitter. An organic phenomenon? Hardly: He had a PR agency known for its celebrity "Twitter boot camp" on his side. And they taught him some secrets. More » -
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Tracy Morgan Joins Medium Designed Expressly for Him
Tracy Morgan joined Twitter. Like, mere hours ago. The microblogging service is the perfect forum for a man known for his entertainingly insane 30 Rock non-sequiturs. Plus, there's already a thriving Twitter sub-culture devoted to Morgan sightings. They are gifts. More » -
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How To Get Fired For Twittering: Waiter Edition
Jon-Barrett Ingels was fired as a waiter thanks in large part to Jane Adams. The co-star of HBO's Hung couldn't pay her check, then failed to tip when she did. The waiter complained on Twitter; Smith complained to his boss. More » -
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British Twitter Lord's Email Slip
Actor Stephen Fry, the Oprah Winfrey of British Twitterers, accidentally tweeted his personal email address and is reportedly besieged with unsolicited e-mails. Oh, hell's teeth. Arse, poo and widdle! -
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Confused Justine Bateman Attacks 'Human Waste' on Tumblr
The internet continues to baffle and comically anger Justine Bateman. The Family Ties star and manic blogger is calling people "shithead" and "human waste" for spamming her Twitter homepage, unaware she's seeing a new feature announced over a month ago.
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Twitter's Celebrity Suck Up
Earlier this year, Twitter internally referred to Sean "Diddy" Combs and its other celebrity clients as a "distractionary element." When that swipe leaked, via a hacker, the microblogging startup went into full-on pander mode. More » -
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Martha Stewart's Twitter Is a Catalog of Death and Mayhem
Martha Stewart is a walking vortex of chaos and destruction, and we know this because we read her Twitter. The latest "accident:" A car simply burst into flames, right there outside her gates. More » -
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Ashton Kutcher, Exploited Twitter Spokesmodel
Has any celebrity tied himself so closely to a technology product as Ashton Kutcher with Twitter? It's doubtful, and yet Kutcher hasn't received a dime for his defacto endorsement. That's not lost on the actor. More » -
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How Twitter Enables Martha Stewart's Condescension
Martha Stewart is a frosty domestic diva, tyrant office manager and convicted Wall Street conniver. Not exactly a people person. Which is why, Stewart says, she loves the Twitter — it's perfect if you disdain the common man! More » -
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Who's Abandoning Twitter?
Celebrity Twittering seems to be at an all-time high, which means it's time to brace for the inevitable comedown, when the fickle famous give up microblogging forever. Oprah Winfrey, ever the trend setter, is leading the charge. More » -
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Internet Somehow Survives Michael Jackson Funeral
Sure, the Department of Defense designed it to be military-grade rugged, but no one really knew if the internet could handle a memorial service webcast of a pop megastar. Oh, it was brutal. From a network engineering perspective. More » -
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Sarah Silverman on Twitter (For Real This Time)
Six months ago, someone made a fake Sarah Silverman Twitter account. But this seems genuinely to be the comedian's work, what with all the facetious jewish jokes and invented profanities. (Click for highlights.) More » -
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Justine Bateman Escalates Ongoing War With Tumblr
Last time we checked in with Justine Bateman, the Family Ties star was getting territorial about how her Tumblr posts were reblogged. Now she's angrily learning what a "White Whine" is. More » -
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Justine Bateman Spends All Day Tumblring, Basically
Mallory from Family Ties just liked to go to the mall and stuff, but that was the 1980s; today's Mallory would hang out on Twitter and Tumblr, reblogging cute boys. So it is with Justine Bateman.
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