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Few things make for such viral Twitter material as celebrity relationships. Sure, everyone was all a-Twitter about the royal engagement, but in general, break-ups seem to be the more stimulating topics. Sometimes the topics that are trending on Twitter seem random — Jaffa Cakes, anyone? — but the celebrity break-up makes sense for the Twitter audience for several reasons. Read more
Today, a crop of A-list celebrities are deleting their Twitter accounts in honor of World AIDS Day to raise money for the disease. Lady Gaga, who became the most popular Twitter user in the world this summer, is included in this group, which has sworn not to resume tweeting until people can raise $1 million for the Keep A Child Alive campaign. Is it the fact that we will miss these celebrities’ tweets, or just the creativity of the campaign itself that will get the job done? Read more
Watch out People, Us Weekly, In Touch… there’s a new competitor in the gossip world, and it’s all of us. Top Stalker, a new social network for the celeb-obsessed, gives the power to snap and share photos of our most beloved and despised celebrities to anyone with a camera phone. Saw Ashton at the bar? Got a glimpse of Angelina with the kids at the park? Now you can share your celebrity sightings with friends, family, and a whole network of fellow star-hunters.
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She might not want to go to the bar with you and your friends this Saturday night, but now Carmen Electra can post to you and your friends’ Facebook walls just as if you had friended her. Cameo Stars is a new Facebook application designed to bring celebrity cameos – like those surprise guest appearances on your favorite sitcoms – to your Facebook wall. You can have Carmen post something to your wall where she pops out of a birthday cake or get Tony Romo to poke and hand off a football to your friends with this slick app.
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What do you get when you cross a lovable philanthropist-celebrity with a social network just for charity? You get Crowdrise, an edgy, no-apologies fundraising network designed to leverage social networks in support of grassroots activism. And having Edward Norton and his celebrity pals as its face doesn’t hurt this fledgling non-profit one bit.
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Social media channels such as Facebook and Twitter have attracted a lot of celebrity attention, and the aftermath has been a mixed bag of wins and fails, when it comes to their use of the medium. Here are a few recent incidents. You’ll note that ‘Hole’ singer Courtney Love could be part of a list all on her own.
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OMG did you hear who so-and-so is dating/dumping? The more dour among us say that celebrity gossip is superficial, trivial and meaningless. Why should we care about the sex lives and vacation pictures of celebrities?
Well Mr. Boring, STFU! We all have guilty pleasures. So what if they are rooted in the destruction of other people’s lives! Heck, they get paid inordinate sums of money; so we have the ‘right’ to watch them rise and fall under the media microscope.
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