Politics Buzz The president preempted our friends over at Now With Alex Wagner today to make sure you knew that your parents are supposed to be aware of #hashtags these days.
Tech Buzz Ooh, that's gotta hurt. Sean Hopkins 1, Blockbuster 0.
Culture Buzz An account located in Clark County, Nevada, tweeted “Whitney Houston found dead in Beverly Hills hotel” almost a half hour before the Associated Press released their report. The user in question, @chilemasgrande a.k.a. Big Chorizo, has not yet been reached for comment. (via mashable.com)
The Roots' drummer and Twitter aficionado received an excellent business proposal on Saturday. At the very least, it should make for a pretty funny skit on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.”
Celebrity Buzz The youngest Smith family member took to Twitter to show that she's moved past whipping her hair.
Mitt Romney is so proud of his clever retweet of Barack Obama that he made a whole campaign ad about it.
Celebrity Buzz He took Tebow's name in vain. Bill Maher, noted atheist, profanely tweeted about the loss Tim Tebow and the Broncos suffered at the hands of the Buffalo Bills on Christmas Eve. Fox News was not amused. An online effort by Tebow's many minions has been launched to get HBO to cancel “Real Time With Bill Maher.”
Culture Buzz What a statesman. The office of Sam Brownback saw a joking tweet by Kansas teen Emma Sullivan and promptly ran crying to her high school principal. Her school was going to force Sullivan to write a letter of apology to avoid a negative mark on her college transcripts, but she is rightfully refusing. #heblowsalot
Jerry Seinfeld entered the Twitosphere last night under the username @SeinTime. “A nickname Chris Rock gave me many years ago,” according to his fourth tweet. Follow him here. (via huffingtonpost.com)
The New Yorker's Ben Greenman makes an astute observation regarding this year's derby winner “Animal Kingdom.”
Among rumors that the actor was to replace Sheen on the show, Stamos set the record straight via Twitter. However, the second offer sounds like a sweet deal.
Posted as a list on Twitter of course! Click the link to see more twitter guru hints.
It really seemed to me that Ron Artest had mellowed out with the craziness. Well, this Tweet puts that notion to bed.
Jennifer Lopez's new artwork for Love?, which she recently revealed through Twitter. Looks like Danity Kane threw up on Sasha Fierce… I like.
Remember when Dave Chapelle portrayed Tiger in the “Racial Draft” skit? Tiger does and it's good to know Tiger can still make a joke after all he's been through.
Culture Buzz For those who wish to share their affinity to updates 140 characters or less, owning a Twitter necklace will show the world you are serious about your tweets. I ain't a hater! I just tweet a lot.
Politics Buzz Meg Whitman's press secretary intended to send a perfectly normal tweet about her candidate's newest endorsement. However, she left one letter off the end of a bit.ly link, and sent them a very different message instead.
Culture Buzz Making a twitter for your beloved pet has been becoming increasingly popular over the past year or two! Cats, dogs… turtles. Tons and tons of animals have stepped onto the micro-blogging scene and they all appear to be tweeting up a storm! Here are some nice pets that you should check out/ follow!
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2010/7/13miller.html
It's not like a 2010 parody of “Howl” would ever be happy, but: yikes. I am going to go join an ashram or something, at least until the 2011 Hippie “Howl” parody gets written.
This fun “Fail Whale” cake was created by Argentina based cake designer Mariana Pugliese. When the Fail Whale has appeared too often, you need cake to survive! [Ed Note: Looks Sadly Delicious ]
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/17/world-series-of-poker-bet/
You’ve heard the term “betting the company,” but have you ever known anyone who has actually done that? I mean literally. As in, they’re playing poker with shares of the company on the line. Because that’s exactly what Yammer founder David Sacks and Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis are doing at The World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
http://mashable.com/2009/08/26/blog-social-good/
Ford has generously offered to make a donation to Mashable's Summer of Social Good Charity Fund. 50 of their Ford Fiesta Movement Agents will be donating $2 per retweet for this post up to 3,000 retweets.
http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?q=michael+beasley+...
When Miami Heat forward Michael Beasley checked into rehab, he sent a number of cryptic tweets and a picture of his now infamous tattoo that reads “Supercool Beas.” You're right, that is supercool, beas.
Twitter user (and buzzfeed contributor!) Mathue discovers time travel, then goes back to tweet about it.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/01/twitter-grows-uncomf...
Is Twitter trying to prevent third party developers from using the word Tweet? TechCrunch has some answers.