Twitter Celebrates NBA Center Jason Collins Coming Out as Gay
If you've been hiding under a rock, or just somehow not on the internet at all today, here's a newsflash -- Jason Collins is now the first active NBA player to be openly gay.
If you've been hiding under a rock, or just somehow not on the internet at all today, here's a newsflash -- Jason Collins is now the first active NBA player to be openly gay.
There are over 400 million tweets per day on Twitter. Our math department here at TheFW says that amounts to around 2.8 billion tweets a week. We've gone through each and every one of those tweets to bring you the 10 Dumbest Tweets of the Week.
Learning that you've been traded to another team is an inevitable event during the career of a Major League Baseball player. For most players it's just a part of life - a non-event you might say. Not so for former Phillies pitcher Vance Worley when he was traded on Dec. 6, 2012, to the Twins.
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.)
The news of Pope Benedict's resignation has got us feeling like it's 1415 all over again. HEY-O! Seriously, this is the first time a Pope has stepped down it nearly 600 years, so it's pretty big news
There has been a study done about Facebook saying that some people plan on taking a break from Facebook for a while. One of our Townsquare Media people, Drew Weisholtz did a post on this if you would like to know a little more information.
Take the poll and gather up your HairBalls!
Congratulations are in order for Prince William and his wife, Kate Middleton. The two are expecting a baby. Good job, guys! As aways whenever there is any kind of news for anybody, Twitter has gone nuts. Here are the funniest tweets about #royalbaby. Enjoy!
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.
If you asked us what we like more than Twitpics from sexy babes, we would simply respond – there’s something else on Twitter?
Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger are getting married. Congratulations? At least we aren’t the only people who thought this was hilarious. Here’s a roundup of our favorite Twitter reactions to the happy (but awful) news.
Douchebags of yesteryear had it easy — If he hit on some random hot model on a plane in a semi-drunken stupor, she may think him a douche and turn him down but once the big hunk of metal lands, he’s in the clear.
Newspaper publishers and their writers have had to adapt to the changing world of media and figure out how to compete on the internet. Apparently Vito Stellino decided “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” and went right for it by tweeting a link to a porn site instead of a sports story. In this case, “beating ‘em” may be a figure of speech with more than one meaning.