Chick-fil-A Has Completely Lost Control Of Its Facebook Page. Kristen Stewart's Radical Apology - Eleanor Barkhorn. After the Twilight star was caught cheating, she didn't deny or stall—she just said, "I'm so sorry. " Reuters It took nearly three months for Tiger Woods to apologize after his multiple extra-marital affairs became public. Anthony Weiner waited a week after he unintentionally posted a lewd photo of himself on Twitter to say sorry for his R-rated use of social media. Singer-turned-actress LeAnn Rimes cheated on her husband with a co-star—and didn't publicly apologize until a year and a half later, after she'd been divorced and re-married. Kristen Stewart waited less than a day. So it would have been completely normal for Stewart to stall the way Woods and Weiner and Rimes (and Meg Ryan and Mark Sanford and Ashton Kutcher and Bill Clinton) did when their infidelities came to light.
I'm deeply sorry for the hurt and embarrassment I've caused to those close to me and everyone this has affected. Lots of factors could account for the apology's rawness and swiftness. The Flip Side of a Big Audience. "Bloggers are famous enough to have stalkers, but not famous enough to have bodyguards. " —Danny O'Brien Everyone thinks they want a million Twitter followers and a million pageviews a day on their blog and the incredible high that it must be to walk around in the world knowing you're "internet famous.
" Yes, being famous among dozens has its privileges, but it also has a flip side netizens rarely discuss. I passed 200,000 followers on Twitter this week. Reality check: Lady Gaga is famous. I'm not famous, but I have an outsized audience. But you know what else happens when you have an outsized audience? You field a weekly flood of pitches. Having a big audience means you're a commodity, and you get to constantly field pitches from strangers, acquaintances, former co-workers, and distant family members who you never hear from otherwise asking you to mention their new app, book, Kickstarter project, or MySpace page. You forget how to share with people who do know you. Fan Booted From Concert for Negative Tweet. Freedom of speech came at a high price in the case of a man who was kicked out of an MC Chris concert for tweeting something negative about the performer's opening act. On Tuesday, the fan was at the Powerglove and MC Chris show at Union Transfer in Philadelphia.
He admittedly didn't like the opening act and tweeted, "Dear nerd rapper opening for Powerglove/mc chris. You're not good enough to pander to me. Better luck next time. " Here's what transpired after that, according to the fan's Reddit post: I walked out to the lobby, grabbed a soda and was sitting there when I heard the crowd went nuts and mc chris started talking, and I heard him ask for my real name.
Celebrities and Cyberstalkers: The Dark Side of Fame in the Internet Age. Kourtney Reppert describes herself as a glamour model and an online personality. She posts semi-nude photos of herself online and sends out life-affirming tweets, which has earned her hundreds of thousands of adoring followers. But in this digital age, where fame can come easy, so can the dark side of such accessible, Internet celebrity: Cyberstalking. On March 8, Reppert began receiving vile, threatening emails from a man who claimed he would kill her and her parents. "I'm going to stab you in the f---ing heart and cut your f---ing head off. I will kill your parents, cut them to pieces with a handsaw, do you f---ing understand me?
Don't f--- with me or make me mad," one email read. Reppert, 26, is a small town girl from Pennsylvania who moved to Los Angeles last year to further her modeling career. "I will kill you when you least expect it. Reppert said her stalker demanded that she stop modeling, delete all of her social accounts, move back to Pennsylvania and "be someone else. " Snake On A Plane, Or How Twitter Outed A Married Actor Making Moves On A Model Mid-Flight. Swimmer to Forsake Twitter During Olympics Because of Trolls. Two-time gold medalist swimmer Rebecca Adlington will take a Twitter timeout during this summer's Olympics in London. Why? Because of trolls who send vile comments about her looks, she says. Adlington has about 50,000 followers, and looks like a normal — albeit very fit — person. She interacts with Twitter followers and posts training and personal updates regularly.
But that level of engagement has apparently come with a price. Adlington recently told the Associated Press the online hate is "awful" and gets under her skin. “Even if there are 10 nice comments, you get one idiot," she says. As an athlete competing in her sport's biggest event, Adlington says, "you don't want that added stress.
" Adlington posted a message to her @BeckAdlington account on Thursday saying that, while she does find an Olympics break wise, she "would never" quit the social network outright. On the other side of the female-Olympians-on-Twitter-spectrum, hurdler Lolo Jones has become a darling among media and fans. NFL Star Has Epic Twitter Implosion. Oprah Winfrey's Nielsen Tweet And The Dark Side Of Self-Promotion. Chris Brown Police Report Provides Details Of Altercation. Court documents released Thursday revealed details about the case against , including a police statement that the incident began when (real name: Robyn Rihanna Fenty) found a text message on Brown's cell phone from "a woman who Brown had a previous sexual relationship with. " A search warrant used by police to obtain cell-phone records related to the case included the sworn statement by Los Angeles Police Detective DeShon Andrews in which he detailed what allegedly happened in the early morning hours of February 8.
"Brown was driving a vehicle with Robyn F. as the front passenger on an unknown street in Los Angeles. Robyn F. picked up Brown's cellular phone and observed a three-page text message from a woman who Brown had a previous sexual relationship with. Chris Brown and Twitter: Looking back on their on-again, off-again relationship.
"Robyn F. turned to face Brown and he punched her in the left eye with his right hand. Why Can't Chris Brown Curb His Twitter Impulses? Chris Brown Isn't Dead, But His Twitter Handle Almost Is. Despite the fact that #RIPChrisBrown has become a Twitter trending topic, the hip-hop artist is alive and well Wednesday. His Twitter account seems to be wasting away, however, with all but four tweets deleted. Brown caused controversy on Twitter since his performance at the Grammys. Although Brown was one of the most talked-about celebrities that evening, trending topics such as #wifebeater suggested the reasons were mostly negative.
Other celebrities, such as Miranda Lambert, Michelle Branch and Wil Wheaton also raised their eyebrows at the Grammys' choice of performer. Brown responded to the hate with a strongly worded tweet. Just minutes later, Brown attempted to delete all evidence of his tantrum on Twitter. Twitter users responded to Brown's behavior by making "#RIPChrisBrown" a trending topic.
Brown has since taken back his retweet of Williams, and there are now only four visible tweets attached to his account, including a link to his new music video. Dad Addresses Viral Laptop Shooting Over Daughter's Facebook Post [QUOTES] The tech-savvy, gun-toting father who blasted nine hollow-point rounds into his daughter's laptop after she wrote a disrespectful Facebook post is dealing with his newfound notoriety much the same way he handled the girl's rant: publicly and proactively.
If you haven't seen the now-viral video, here's what happened: Tommy Jordan of North Carolina has a 15-year-old daughter who posted an indignant note to Facebook in which she complained about and harshly criticized her parents for forcing her do too many chores around the house and generally making her life a hassle. She thought she'd hid it from her parents using privacy settings, but her father works in IT and found the note anyway, he said, when he was uploading photos to the family dog's profile page.
(She didn't think to hide it from the dog.) So he decided to reprimand her publicly, saying in the video that “since you want to hide it from everyone, I’m going to share it with everybody.” Not surprisingly, the video took off. CNN suspends Martin; not Loesch, Erickson. With its decision to suspend political contributor Roland Martin today for controversial statements he made on Twitter, CNN seems to have suggested that controversial comments made recently by other contributors — namely Dana Loesch and Erick Erickson — do not warrant the same punishment. On her radio show, Loesch championed U.S. Marines for urinating on dead Taliban soldiers and said that she would "drop trou" and do it too.
On his radio show, Erickson championed the tasing of an Occupy D.C. protestor and said, "watching a hippie protester get tased just makes my day. " On Twitter, Martin seemed to champion violence against gay men, writing, "If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham’s H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him! #superbowl. " CNN would not directly address the decision to suspend Martin while not suspending Loesch and Erickson, though a CNN executive did tell me over email that the network was looking to "raise the bar" on professionalism. Roland Martin's Big Twitter #FAIL Can Become a Win - News & Views.