Social Media and Fame

Chick-fil-A Has Completely Lost Control Of Its Facebook Page. Kristen Stewart's Radical Apology - Eleanor Barkhorn. The Flip Side of a Big Audience. "Bloggers are famous enough to have stalkers, but not famous enough to have bodyguards.

" 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. 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? Reppert, 26, is a small town girl from Pennsylvania who moved to Los Angeles last year to further her modeling career. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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