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'Scandal' Season Finale Captivates Twitter
(The Root) — Shonda Rhimes did it again. She nearly killed Twitter with the Scandal season finale last night. Scandal hashtags (such as #ScandalABC, #AskScandal, and #Gladiators to name a few) were trending all day on both Twitter and The Chatterati. Twitter woke up Thursday morning ready to talk about the show, and per usual,…
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Breaking Up in the Digital Age
(The Root) — Once upon a time, breaking up with someone was as simple as erasing their phone number from your telephone book, ripping up a few pictures and asking your friends not to say his or her name around you. Now, in an age in which everything is tagged, liked, reblogged, retweeted and favorited,…
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NBA to Televise Social Media Awards
(The Root) — Social media continues to change the way we do things. This is most recently evidenced by NBA TV’s decision to televise its Social Media Awards this year. The awards, in their second year, will air on June 12 on TNT. Voting for nominees and winners, which will occur via Twitter using the…
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Lupe Fiasco Gets Put in a Time-Out
(The Root) — Everyone knows by now that rapper Lupe Fiasco is not afraid to speak his mind, but apparently he made his management nervous on Twitter last night. After a debate with fellow rapper Talib Kweli about violence in rap music, Lupe ventured into a discussion about Marxism with a few folks on Twitter,…
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P Diddy's Mysterious Announcement
(The Root) — If there’s any overlap between fans of Sean “P. Diddy” Combs and the hit PBS show Downton Abbey, they will be very excited about the rap mogul’s big news today: He announced on Twitter that he’ll be joining the cast of the show as a series regular. Downton Abbey is a British…
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High Schooler Tweets His Way Into UCLA
(The Root) — A high school senior is celebrating in Massachusetts this week after lobbying for acceptance to his dream school — online. When 18-year-old Bernie Zak was wait-listed after applying to UCLA, he didn’t want to wait; he wanted to “do something.” He took to Twitter with the intent of tweeting 50 reasons why…
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Is Wayne Brady Gonna Have to Choke a Bill?
(The Root) — Comedian Wayne Brady wasn’t laughing during a HuffPost Live interview in which he discussed some shots sent his way by Bill Maher. Brady called Maher to task for questioning his blackness in a joke about President Obama’s street cred. Brady is no stranger to people coming at him for his “blackness,” or…
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The Most Hateful Tweets in America
(The Root) — Think you live in an enlightened, progressive part of the country? Are you sure? Floating Sheep, a website “dedicated to mapping and analyzing user generated geocoded data,” is helping you figure it out. The site recently analyzed and geo-tagged 150,000 tweets that contained what they call “discriminatory speech” — racist, homophobic and…
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Sallie Mae Gets Taken to the Woodshed
(The Root) — Reaching your 40th birthday is a huge milestone. Some may celebrate it with a quiet night with the family. Others may put on their good dancing shoes and hit the town with friends. Loan company Sallie Mae decided to celebrate quietly with a couple of tweets commemorating its 40th year, and rather than…
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Twitter Campaigns for the GOP
(The Root) — If there’s one thing Twitter is good at, it’s starting death rumors about celebrities who haven’t died, and occasionally ones who have already died. If it’s good at anything else, it’s using smarts and satire to make fun of racist and otherwise oppressive things. That’s the treatment the Republican Party is getting…