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Senior Class President Suspended After Tweeting About High School Sports

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 09 May 2013 19:25:11 +0000

An eight word tweet has gotten former Heights High School Class of 2013 President Wesley Teague in hot water with his school administration. WSU is Wichita State University, whose football team was disbanded in 1986. The athletic department at Heights High School, which is in Wichita, Kansas, is often referred to on Twitter by the hashtag [...]

Do You Instagram? What Social Networks Do You Use?[POLL]

Jeff Easterling — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:05:01 +0000

I first started using instagram as an app just to make my crappy phone pics look better, but never really understood the lingo, or how it works… good thing I have a teenage daughter for IT work. According to my youngest, it’s about getting likes and using hashtags. Instagram has really blown up lately, and [...]

Denver Teacher Fired For Naked Tweets

DJ Nyke — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:57:55 +0000

23-year-old school teacher, Carly Mckinney has been fired from her job for posting naked pictures on Twitter, but probably more for the reason that she said she was "stoned".

Carly was a math teacher at Overland High School in the Denver suburb of Aurora, Colorado when the school board caught wind of her Twitter account, were she used the moniker: Carly Crunk Bear. She had been suspended a

Man Uses Senator's Twitter Feed to Make Charming Marriage Proposal

Jeremy Taylor — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 01:31:19 +0000

As we advance deeper into the 21st century, a Senator's press secretary is at least as likely to be getting the word out on Twitter than communicating with the press in more traditional ways.

So when Brett Wanamaker decided he wanted to surprise his girlfriend Beth Adelson, who is the press secretary for Virginia Senator Mark Warner, with a marriage proposal he had a pretty good idea where to find her.

10 Dumb Tweets About Kurt Cobain for His Birthday

Emerald Catron — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:55:31 +0000

Ugh, come on people. Kurt Cobain is trending pretty hard on Twitter today, since it's his birthday, but we doubt the authenticity of some of these "fans." Here are some dumb, dumb tweets dedicated to Cobain on his birthday. (We left out the twenty gazillion tweets of the quote "Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are," because it's depressing how people aren't picking up on the irony.)

Hackers Make Burger King Twitter Praise McDonald's

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:55:46 +0000

Things got weird in the burger wars yesterday when hackers broke into the Burger King Twitter page and started firing off pro-McDonald’s tweets. Under the handle McDonalds@BurgerKing, the hackers posted messages which said Burger King had been sold to McDonald’s, accused Burger King employees of on-the-job drug use and posted links to popular hip hop [...]

Sexist Children's Books or Super Sensitive Shopper?

Erin — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:40:36 +0000

London TV producer Krystina Meens posted this image of two children's books placed next to each other in a London Harrods department store that claims to have done away with gender marketing.

The book on the le

10 People Proudly Getting High on Twitter for Bob Marley's Birthday

Emerald Catron — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:35:48 +0000

Today would have been Bob Marley's 68th birthday. The legendary musician and activist still has quite a following, despite passing away almost 22 years ago. One of the big differences between then and now is that now most people feel the best way to express their appreciation is to smoke a bunch of weed and then write about it on Twitter

Twitter Thinks Bane Caused the Super Bowl XLVII Blackout

Emerald Catron — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 04:04:37 +0000

We're going to pretend all of these people are hilarious and not morons. When the 2013 Super Bowl was delayed by a power outage, most people took it as a chance to actually talk to the people at their football party. These people decided to make jokes on Twitter that the half hour of darkness was actually 'The Dark Knight Rises' villain Bane's fault.

Oprah Will Not Be Trifled With on Twitter

Emerald Catron — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 02:34:40 +0000

Maybe you think you can just mess with Oprah on Twitter and get away with it. Maybe you think she's too busy/rich/famous to actually pay attention. Maybe you're wrong, jerk.

Somebody tried to get sassy with Oprah by insulting her appearance on Twitter(on the day before her birthday nonetheless). Apparently they thought Oprah was going to let it slide. She did not. Here's what happened.

Photos of Twitter-Troubled Teacher in Aurora Surface [PHOTOS/NSFW]

Tim Gray — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:08:30 +0000

Meet Carly McKinney, a 23-year-old teacher from Aurora, Colo. who is better known as CarlyCrunkBear, on Twitter. Miss CarlyCrunkBear is in a bit of hot water over her Twitter account and we have the reason right here. CarlyCrunkBear is currently being looked at by the Cherry Creek School district in Aurora, Colo. due to some [...]

Vine, Twitter's New Video App, Is Already Causing Problems

Amanda Ferris — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:39:19 +0000

Twitter has unveiled their easy-to-use new video app for both the iPhone and iTouch called 'Vine.' This app allows users to post short videos (about 6 seconds each) to their Twitter account, Facebook account, or even to the Vine community.

Aurora High School Teacher in Trouble of Twitter Picture

Tim Gray — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:01:58 +0000

An Aurora, Colo. high school teacher is in a bit of hot water after some racy Twitter updates that include drug related comments and partially nude photos. Where were these teachers when we were in high school? According to Fox 31 in Denver the Cherry Creek School district teacher who is a first year math [...]

Everyone on Twitter Can't Stop Talking About Michelle Obama's Bangs

Emerald Catron — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:41:28 +0000

Everybody in America who was planning on getting bangs this week is thoroughly miffed at Michelle Obama for stealing their thunder. People sincerely cannot stop talking about the First Lady’s haircut. Even people who want everybody to stop talking about it are talking about it. We know, because they’re our favorites from this roundup of [...]

'Hashtag' Is 2012′s Word of the Year

Donald Deane — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:06:26 +0000

Hashtags may have originated on Twitter, but the popular internet shorthand has since spread to Facebook and even everyday speech. And now, "hashtag" has been declared the 2012 word of the year by the American Dialect Society. #waytogohashtag

Westboro Baptist Church Twitter Account Hacked By Anonymous

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:47:51 +0000

Just when you thought the Westboro Baptist church couldn’t get any lower, they did. The radical group, which has gained notoriety for protesting military funerals and blaming the deaths on America’s acceptance of homosexuality, announced that they would picket a vigil that is being held this week for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting. In response, the hacktivist group [...]

Hallelujah! Pope Benedict Joins Twitter

Donald Deane — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:51:28 +0000

Pope Benedict XVI may be the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church with a tradition dating back more than 2,000 years, but that doesn't mean he's not up on the latest technology. In fact, the Vatican recently revealed the pope's Twitter handle and said that he'll start tweeting to followers on Dec. 12.

The 10 Best Twitter Reactions to Lindsay Lohan's (Millionth) Arrest

Emerald Catron — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:59:42 +0000

In case you missed it, Lindsay Lohan went to a Justin Bieber concert and then punched a lady in the face last night. Unsurprisingly, nobody is particularly surprised. That's not stopping people from tweeting up a storm about it though. We've culled through the massive stream of LiLo tweets pouring in and picked out our favorites. For a chuckle at the expense of everyone's favorite terrible Elizabeth Taylor, take a gander at these gems.

Anderson Cooper Makes Time to Shame Twitter Trolls

Emerald Catron — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:35:35 +0000

What with nearly being exploded by bombs and all, you might think Anderson Cooper is a little too busy with not dying to take trolls to task. But that is simply not the case. Cooper was reporting from Gaza City on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a subject which gets a lot of people up in arms. Unfortunately for those angry people, if your arms are merely Twitter insults directed Cooper, you're about to get badly burned.

The Wackiest Angry Tweets About the Election

Emerald Catron — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:20:27 +0000

Maybe not everybody is not happy with the outcome of the presidential election yesterday. In fact, definitely everybody is not happy with it. These tweets are (very entertaining) proof of that. Please stop crying, Victoria Jackson, you'll ruin your mascara and get dehydrated. Enjoy!