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Death Row Inmate Gets New Trial Because Of Twitter Gaffe

Death Row Inmate Gets New Trial Because Of Twitter Gaffe

A jury of his peers found Erickson Dimas-Martinez guilty of the murder of a 17-year-old boy after a 2010 robbery and sentenced him to death row and now the convicted murderer will receive a new trial because ... continue
Congressman Fires Staffers Who Attack Him On Twitter

Congressman Fires Staffers Who Attack Him On Twitter

A word to the wise for tweeters, if you are going to use an online social network to bash your boss it's probably best that it isn't a public feed like Twitter. Washington state Rep. Rick Larsen ... continue
Charlie Sheen Accidentally Tweets Personal Phone Number [Oops]

Charlie Sheen Accidentally Tweets Personal Phone Number [Oops]

Charlie Sheen has accidentally tweeted his personal phone number to the 5 million people who follow him on Twitter. The tweet popped up on Sheen's account on Thursday morning, with the actor's number followed by a "Call me ... continue
Theaters Begin Adding Twitter Seating

Theaters Begin Adding Twitter Seating

It can be annoying to be stuck next to someone who tweets their reactions to an event, especially if that event is an upscale offering such as a Shakespeare performance, classic music concert or ballet and that's ... continue
Arizona Wildcats Hire Rich Rodriguez, Make The Announcement Using Twitter

Arizona Wildcats Hire Rich Rodriguez, Make The Announcement Using Twitter

The Arizona Wildcats have hired former Michigan and West Virginia head coach Rich Rodriguez as their new head coach for men's football. Making the announcement on Twitter of all places was athletic director Greg Byrne who tweeted: "And the ... continue
Ashton Kutcher Tweet Put Nail In His Marriage’s Coffin

Ashton Kutcher Tweet Put Nail In His Marriage’s Coffin

If sleeping with other women didn't kill his "open marriage" there's a small chance that a single Tweet sent without all the right details may have. A source close to Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore says Kutcher's ... continue
Vanessa Minnillo Celebrates Marriage With Twitter Change

Vanessa Minnillo Celebrates Marriage With Twitter Change

Four months ago former 98 Degrees singer Nick Lachey and Wipeout host Vanessa Minnillo took things to the next level when they wed and now Vanessa has used Twitter to celebrate her marriage. On her Twitter account Vanessa changed ... continue
Teen Sends 144 Tweets About Sexual Abuse, Kills Herself

Teen Sends 144 Tweets About Sexual Abuse, Kills Herself

Ashley Billasono spent six hours on Twitter sending messages about being molested by a family member and then forced into prostitution before taking her own life. The 18-year-old sent out messages to her 500 Twitter followers in what ... continue
Ashton Kutcher Ditches Twitter Over Penn State Gaffe

Ashton Kutcher Ditches Twitter Over Penn State Gaffe

Ashton Kutcher is no longer the king of Twitter, the actor has decided to hand over control of his account to his team at Katalyst Media following a Penn State gaffe that caused plenty of Kutcher backlash. Kutcher ... continue
Raul Castro’s Daughter in Twitter Spat with Dissident Cuban Blogger

Raul Castro’s Daughter in Twitter Spat with Dissident Cuban Blogger

Raul Castro's daughter Mariela Castro, also the niece of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, has made her debut on Twitter and walked straight into an argument. The 49-year-old Castro, Cuba's leading gay rights activist, engaged in a spiky Twitter ... continue
Khloe Kardashian is $8k, Charlie Sheen $9.5k – The Celebs Who Do Paid Twitter Endorsements

Khloe Kardashian is $8k, Charlie Sheen $9.5k – The Celebs Who Do Paid Twitter Endorsements

As I write this post, Khloe Kardashian is just a whisker away from reaching 5,000,000 followers on Twitter. Her older sis Kim is pushing 11 million. Which is probably why the reality TV siblings charge thousands of ... continue
Carrie Ann Inaba Defends DWTS Judges on Twitter, Blames Herself for Wearing Red

Carrie Ann Inaba Defends DWTS Judges on Twitter, Blames Herself for Wearing Red

Whenever Carrie Ann Inaba wears red on "Dancing With the Stars" something crazy happens. Inaba, and her fellow judges Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli, are currently in an online yelling match with dancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Some would say that ... continue
Debt collectors not allowed to chase you on Twitter and Facebook – in England anyway

Debt collectors not allowed to chase you on Twitter and Facebook – in England anyway

If there is one category of jobs that has an even lower threshold of scumminess than lawyers it would have to be debt collectors. I don't mean the actually people doing the collecting as many of them ... continue
Kardashian Sisters Start Disgusting Tweet Contest

Kardashian Sisters Start Disgusting Tweet Contest

If you're following Khloe Kardashian or her sister Kourtney, and I know you are, (seriously, they have a combined Twitter following of more than 8 million people) you probably saw the two sisters engage in a battle ... continue
Twitter Proves What We Already Know, A Lot Of People Get The Afternoon Blues

Twitter Proves What We Already Know, A Lot Of People Get The Afternoon Blues

Do you find yourself getting that afternoon itch to leave work, the feeling that your days never going to end and you'll be stuck in a cubicle or building that house forever with no chance of escape? ... continue
Twitter Users Complaining on Companies Publicly

Twitter Users Complaining on Companies Publicly

Frequent Twitter users who have used the social media tool to complain about their customer experience with a company want those companies to be listening to their comments and addressing it as well. According to a study by ... continue
Fake Onion Tweets Send Scare Through Washington

Fake Onion Tweets Send Scare Through Washington

The team at The Onion is known for using satire to get their message across and today they had a rare hiccup in their humor when they tweeted a bunch of messages about the capitol being under ... continue
Spotify Makes Facebook Mandatory, Angers Users

Spotify Makes Facebook Mandatory, Angers Users

Want to use Spotify? You'll have to use Facebook, too. Spotify has just made it mandatory for users to sign into Facebook before logging on at Spotify. Spotify's founder, Daniel Ek, says that the new requirement is simply ... continue
Leisha Hailey, ‘L-Word’ Actress, Booted From Southwest Flight For Same-Sex Canoodling

Leisha Hailey, ‘L-Word’ Actress, Booted From Southwest Flight For Same-Sex Canoodling

40-year-old Leisha Hailey of Showtime's The L Word- a kind of female version of the gay dramedy Queer as Folk- was kicked off a Southwest flight for kissing her girlfriend. Hailey took to Twitter to rail against the ... continue
Twitter Faces Uphill Battles As They Try To Trademark “Tweet”

Twitter Faces Uphill Battles As They Try To Trademark “Tweet”

There isn't a day that has gone by in recent memory where I haven't heard the word "Tweet" used in conjunction with someone's Twitter message, in fact I often use the word Tweet when reporting on someone's ... continue
Michelle Malkin, Alec Baldwin Spar On Twitter Over Troy Davis

Michelle Malkin, Alec Baldwin Spar On Twitter Over Troy Davis

Last night saw the claws come out on Twitter, with conservative blogger/Fox correspondent Michelle Malkin and actor Alec Baldwin attacking one another over the execution of Troy Davis. Davis, a convicted killer who maintained his innocence, was administered ... continue
David Beckham Wants to Buy Elizabeth Taylor’s Bling For Victoria

David Beckham Wants to Buy Elizabeth Taylor’s Bling For Victoria

Soccer star David Beckham- who was the subject of a recent death hoax on the microblogging site Twitter- is, contrary to unfounded web rumors, very much alive. In fact, the not-dead pro footballer is looking into buying recently ... continue