Avid Tamagatchi and fine-toothed comb collector Donald Trump knows a thing or two about the word "loser." Namely, Donald Trump knows when it can best be used to describe a person, place, business, television show, or thing.
Ha ha ha! Here we go again. This kind of language pops up every once in a while for different reasons, I suppose, and it really has to stop.
President Obama took to Twitter late Tuesday night to congratulate swimmer Michael Phelps on winning his 19th Olympic medal, and setting a new record for the most hardware earned by a single athlete.
For some reason, internet public opinion has turned against Ryan Lochte, this year's Michael Phelps. It may have been his poor leg in the relay, or his loss in the 200m freestyle. Or it may have been the grill he sported on the medal podium in the race he did win. But there are a lot of reasons to love Ryan Lochte:…
If you're going to be racist at the Olympics, you have to do it quietly, like everyone else.
Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto has a thought about Samantha Yowler, Jansen Young and Amanda Lindgren, three young women whose boyfriends were killed while protecting them in Aurora. Here's his thought: "hope you were worth it!"
Two years ago today, Salon's Twitter account pressed send on a single, everlasting tweet:
Illustrated vintage map Zooey Deschanel Tweeted at a writer for Gawker.com today.
We do too, AARP. We do too.
Like The Awl's Carrie Frye we found ourselves riveted by Reuters writer Chadwick Matlin's live-tweeting of last night's meeting of the Park Slope co-op (sadly not the upcoming meeting on the subject of Israeli food, which promises to be even more enthralling). So riveted we felt a duty — a calling — to share it with…
For the past two days, Steve Martin has been amusing the masses with Twitter dispatches from jury duty. Didn't Al Roker get in trouble for the same thing last year? Guess Steve gets points for being funny. Sample tweets inside.
Keith Olbermann, recently suspended from MSNBC, just tweeted. Thank God, some MSNBC boss didn't throw him off the Verrazano bridge with a pair of cement shoes. Keith Olbermann lives, breathes, tweets. They day is won. Retweet it from the mountaintops!
A Twitter user in Tokyo, @GGGGGGo_Lets_Go, today posted the networking site's 20 billionth tweet.
Like the greater Twittership at-large, celebrity tweets are mostly pointless. Facts easily learned from other sources bore readers and clog feeds. Obvious topics and endless LOLs are even more unnecessary if the personality that makes the poster celeb-worthy is absent.
