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No, Chris Colfer isn't leaving 'Glee'
Chris Colfer’s manager has confirmed that an earlier tweet from the actor announcing his exit from Glee was due to a Twitter hack, according to the Hollywood Reporter.Earlier today, Colfer tweeted that...
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'Opie and Anthony' cohost broadcasts racist, sexist tirade on Twitter
What do you do if you take a nonconsensual photograph of the wrong New Yorker? If you're the cohost of this popular Sirius radio show, you instigate a fight and then spend hours unloading an obscene,...
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The dark art of paying for retweets
There’s only one person in this world who stays above the social media fray, and that's the No. 1 retweet salesman in the world. After months of intensive research that involved spending an enormous...
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Feds finally find the man who hacked Burger King's Twitter account
Federal prosecutors have charged a man who's already in prison for hacking crimes for what appears to be a much funnier crime: The almost-forgotten hijacking of Burger King's Twitter account in 2013.On...
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Can we take Ryn Weaver's meteoric rise at face value?
There’s a dark horse in the race for song of the summer—a complete unknown racking up rewards points by way of SoundCloud mileage. Ryn Weaver’s electro-pop ballad “OctaHate” has enjoyed more than...
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Pink Floyd announce first album in 20 years with a casual tweet
Pink Floyd haven’t released an album in 20 years. On Saturday, new material was announced in the most Internet way possible: via Twitter. Polly Samson, a novelist and wife of Pink Floyd’s singer and...
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The very NSFW reason this One Direction star is trending
Note to Harry Styles: You have 21 million Twitter followers waiting to launch into an epic meltdown over your every move. What did you think was going to happen when you favorited a tweet from an...
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NPR's diversity problem didn't get any help from this reporter's tweet
With the cancelling of its daily race, religion and culture talk show Tell Me More and a scathing critique by its own ombudsman, National Public Radio has weathered a fair amount of criticism lately...
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Wendy's ode to pretzel buns is a ballad made up of tweets
Wendy’s is making a big push for the return of its pretzel bun, to the point of recruiting Boyz II Men and Jon Secada to sing theme songs for it. In addition to nostalgia-mining, the fast food chain...
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12 simple rules for combating online sexism
BY LEIGH ALEXANDER You may notice that a lot of things happen to do with sexism on the Internet. Sometimes someone has done a sexist thing and people are talking about it. Sometimes someone has written...
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The subtle Twitter link that ties LeBron James to the Cavs
LeBron James may very well return to one particularly salty, Comic Sans-loving hometown employer, if a new Twitter trend is any indication. Cleveland’s CBS affiliate reports Wednesday that there’s a 90...
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Horrifying Twitter trend mocks a teenage girl whose rape went viral
Jada, a 16-year-old girl in Houston, Texas, was recently raped at her classmate’s house after she says she blacked out during a party. If that wasn’t horrifying enough, she found out she was raped...
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Every time Nash Grier used a homophobic slur on Twitter
Earlier this week, a now-deleted Vine of 16-year-old Nash Grier screaming the word “fag” was called out by YouTuber Tyler Oakley. Grier, a Vine star with 8.7 million followers and a movie deal,...
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Why SubtweetCat is better at Twitter than your brand
BY KRISTIN BOND Her name is SubtweetCat. She lives on Twitter. She is a cat who subtweets. She’s surprisingly good at social media—for a cat. My first introduction to SubtweetCat was about a year ago....
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This bot will draw your soul in emoji
As of today, I finally understand myself: I am a panda in a dress, top hat, and sneakers, drinking a margarita and playing the French horn. It feels good. It feels right. It feels like I’ve gotten in...
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This Twitter account tattles every time Congress edits Wikipedia
There’s now a real-time record of Wikipedia edits made by U.S. lawmakers. Congress-edits (@congressedits), a Twitter account started earlier this week, is positioning itself as a sort of digital...
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11 must-follow Twitter accounts for Internet freedom issues
The furious and uncertain march of Internet freedom is, well, tough to understand on a day-to-day basis. After all, who can easily explain the latest Supreme Court decision affecting the digital...
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Why is #NationalNudeDay trying to get you out of your pants?
If you happened to be on Twitter this fine Bastille Day—Vive le quatorze juillet, everyone!—you might have noticed that another holiday was also making the national social media rounds:...
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'Cloud Atlas' author unveils new short story on Twitter
David Mitchell, the celebrated British novelist who gave us Cloud Atlas and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, has a new book coming out in September: The Bone Clocks. But as highly regarded as he...
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This app can make your tweets more private
Twitter is one of the quickest ways to share information, but it’s also not the place you’d want to share anything particularly private. Privatize is a new Web service that adds a bit of security to...
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