Twitter Trashed

According to Perez Hilton, Michael Lohan tweeted that his daughter Lindsay Lohan

• is HIV positive
• had an affair with Tommy Mattola when she was 17

The allegations were removed from Michael Lohan’s Twitter page soon after they were posted–but could they be true?

It’s no secret that the Lohans aren’t one big happy family; most recently Dina Lohan is bashing her ex-husband’s new relationship.

The New York Post, however, is reporting that Michael is “blaming a cyber imposter” for the recent tweets.

‘‘I never put any of that stuff up there,’’ said Michael Lohan according to The New York Post. ‘‘I don’t know where it came from.’’

He’s also taken to his Twitter:

“Stop stirring up trouble Perez, you’re disgusting.Hell awaits you.You are only getting a taste now.U R the one who is likely to get AIDS!”

Uh oh. Maybe Lohan should leave his retaliation to his attorney…

Ice-T versus Aimee Mann. Event: Twitter

By now the Twitter breakup of Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy is old news. However, another, possibly more unexpected,  Twitter feud is on the rise–Ice-T and Aimee Mann.

According to TV Guide writer Gina Dinunno, it all started when Grammy winner Mann decided to take a stand on Ice-T’s acting. “Christ, there is no reason in the world anyone should ever have cast Ice T in a television show,” she tweeted on Thursday.

Ice-T, former rapper and current actor on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, certainly had a few words to tweet in response. “Hey @aimeemann stop worrying bout my acting b—h, and worry about your WACK a– music. In the mean time … Eat a hot bowl of D—ks!”

Apparently Mann wasn’t expecting a response from Ice-T. “Oh NOOOO!! Someone just told me that Ice T responded to my tweet about him!! THIS CAN’T BE GOOD!!!” she tweeted the following morning.

Within a matter of five minutes, Mann tweeted three more times:

“I am not going to read it. I DO NOT WANT HIM MAD AT ME!!”

“Plus, I do not like to hurt people’s feelings. I forget that twitter is not just me and four other dorky friends, ragging on TV stars.”

“He’s out there doing his job. He doesn’t need any heckling from the peanut gallery. So, I am sorry, Mr. T! You get out there and DO IT!”

Amidst tweets about his dog Spartacus and a trip to Petsmart, Ice-T responded with this: “OK. Homegirl apologized……. Say no more. FLTG Cease fire! ‘Once again there’s Peace in Twitterland.'”

See, even the “Original Gangster” rapper has a softer (Twitter) side.

Tweeting with the Stars

Tonight I blog to you from my living room at my parents’ house. It’s Monday night and that means one thing: Dancing with the Stars. All of the hustle-bustle of the six-person household comes to a standstill Mondays at 8 p.m.  Mom puts on her pj’s and Dad stops fixing the sliding glass door, for the tenth time in two days. Everyone sips hot Lipton tea and taps their socked feet to the music…but is this how the rest of the world dutifully watches Dancing with the Stars? Let’s check in with Twitter to see…

First up is  Olympic gold medalist Evan Lysachek.

cfieds: I ❤ Evan Lysacek but I can’t decide if he’s being really creepy tonight on Dancing With the Stars…hahaha

createamatch: I don’t care what the judges say about Evan onDancing with the stars. He is dreamy and can dance

thisismeheather: Watching Dancing With The Stars. I hope Kate Gosselin falls on her behind. lol #dwts

Well, we’ve made it to our first commercial break. There have been several hundred tweets about DWTS already–it’s impossible to read them all.

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin is the next to dance. Buzz likes to video tape his partner on his phone so he can watch and rewatch the choreography later.

What are people tweeting about now?

darylreininger: My dad is apparently hardcore about dancing withstars. Giving feedback and woo hooing. May have found a chink inthe armor.

sarah486: I la-la-la LOVE Dancing With the Stars!!! Yay for Buzz Aldrin! TEAM CHAD ALL THE WAY!! WHO DEY PRIDE!

LovelyLadyTRICE: Its not even fair to put old ppl on Dancing WithThe Stars. Theyre gonna get sympathy votes just bc. SN- Im only watchin this bc of Chad!!!

iamsophiamarie: They have this poor 90 yr old astronaut competingwith Nicole Scherzinger on Dancing with the Stars? Really? Poor old man 😦

Konstantine: Apparently my parents got satellite and a new TV so they could watch Dancing With The Stars in HD. And now they can watch it in surround too

While the judges deliberate on Buzz’s Waltz, I must take the time to agree with Konstantine–my parents would love to come visit your parents Monday nights, for sure.

Another commercial break. Hordes of DWTS fans wondered/complained about the fact that Kate Gosselin was not eliminated last week. Perhaps this is why?

Kate Gosselin and her partner Tony Dovolani

Paralexis: The only reason I watch Dancing With The Stars is to watch Kate Goslin fail and have meltdowns on live television. Haha.

The Bachelor’s Jake Pavelka‘s “Walk Like an Egyptian” quickstep is next.

boobasket: ugh, just realized the dude from the bachelor is ondancing with the stars?! a reality show turducken nightmare!

rainalovesjesus: Jake’s dance on dancing with the stars reminded me of an episode of scooby doo lol

Another commercial break, another Kelly Ripa Electrolux appliance commercial. Seems to me, no matter who’s dancing, the DWTS tweeters can’t get enough tweets in about fellow contestants Kate Gosselin (mostly negative), Chad Ochocinco (all positive) and Pamela Anderson.

For now, I think I’ll give Twitter a rest and sit back to watch Niecy Nash sashay her self-proclaimed “jiggly parts” in a 1960s-themed Waltz.

Miley Cyrus tells kids to skip the Internet

It’s not breaking news that Miley Cyrus is no longer a Twitter bug.

In fact, according to “Us Magazine,” the “Hannah Montana” actress says the Internet is “kind of lame.”

Some wise words from 17-year-old Miley:

“I’m telling kids, ‘Don’t go on the Internet,'” she says in the “Us” article. “It’s dangerous, it’s not fun, it wastes your life. And you should be outside playing sports or something.”

Since ditching the Internet for her boyfriend and “Last Song” co-star in Oct. 2009, Miley is now “a little bit more social.” She also “has a lot more real friends,” she says in the article.

Sure, kids should have friends and play outside sometimes. But “Don’t go on the Internet” advice? From Miley Cyrus?

Twi-hards: tweet your hearts out

Team Edward or Team Jacob? How about Team Twitter?

As if the newly-released official “Eclipse” trailer wasn’t enough to hold Twilight fans over until the film’s June 30th release…

Summit Entertainment amped up the Twilight Saga Web site, adding a live Twitter feed. Instead of wasting precious moments playing “New Moon” on repeat until June 30, Twi-hards can tweet day and night about their beloved vampires and werewolves.

Edward promises to love Bella “every moment of forever.”  Hopefully fans love Twi-tweeting just as eternally long.

From Late Night to Twitter

Conan O’Brien just about sums it up in his Twitter bio: “I had a show. Then I had a different show. Now I have a Twitter account.”

With over 245,000 followers (as of Friday morning), the former late-nighter will have the Twitter world watching his every Tweet.

But so far there’s only one:

“Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial. Somebody help me.”

So what’s the man with the monkey on his back–literally, check out his profile picture–to do with his Twitter? Follow him to find out.

Lil Wayne, Welcome to Twitter

February’s proving to be a big month in Lil Wayne’s life–undergoing eight hours of dental surgery, delaying his jail date, joining Twitter.

“I need more followers. I’m trying to catch Ashton Kutcher. I heard he’s the Mr. Twitter,” Wayne said in a Ustream video Sunday to Young Money’s Lil Twist.

Liltunechi, Wayne’s Twitter alias, has already made quiet a splash in the Twitter world, amassing 130,000 followers, and counting. With seven days of freedom remaining, Wayne better get Tweeting.

He’s started strong, Tweeting four times since his first official Tweet at 12:50 a.m. on Feb. 22.

His most recent Tweets (as of publishing) delve a little deeper than most:

“hello future, goodbye now, im on my way to the past…………………”

“aint it funny how love finds you in your darkest place…?”

“if its held in your heart, u kant let go.”

Let’s just hope Weezy Baby can keep this up over the next week, and may even longer.

Maybe too fat to fly, but not too fat to Tweet

We’ve all heard the story by now. Actor and director Kevin Smith usually buys two plane seats when he travels, but Saturday he decided to wait on standby for an earlier Southwest Air flight. Though there was only one seat available, Smith took it, and was seated–until he was kicked off.

Kevin Smith

According to a People.com article, Southwest said, ” ‘If a customer cannot comfortably lower the armrest and infringes on a portion of another seat, a customer seated adjacent would be very uncomfortable and a timely exit from the aircraft in the event of an emergency might be compromised if we allow a cramped, restricted seating arrangement.’ ”

Smith’s Twitter was on fire soon after he was booted from the flight. It took more than 140 characters to spill his story, but Smith tweeted away…

“Had three seats/whole row for me & Jen. She skipped SF, so I went solo checked in and was given the 2 tix there & return 2 (for that p.m.). Going out, even with 2 tix, I only sat in one seat, sleeping against window, w/empty seat between me and fellow passenger. Coming back would have been the same, at 7pm. But I got to the airport early enough to try to bump-up my flight to 5:20 – a practice @SouthwestAir does often. I was told 5:20 flight was packed, but I could go Standby. They sent me to gate. Told lady whole story, and she said there wouldn’t be two seats on that earlier flight. I said I only needed one seat & that I didn’t buy an extra seat because I’m fat (which I am), but because I’m anti-social and didn’t want to sit next to someone & possibly have to make convo (in person, I’m very shy). She said she understood. I was issued the solo ticket. I get on the plane: open seat in the front row. Put my bag away, the sit between two ladies. As I’m about to buckle my extender-less seatbelt, the woman who issued the ticket to me appeared in the doorway of the plane, came over to me and said the Captain said I wasn’t going to be allowed to sit there because I was a safety risk. I asked for clarification and was given none (also asked “Please don’t do this” but that, too, fell on deaf ears. Ladies on either side said I wasn’t a problem. SWA-lady said arm-rests the decider. Arm-rests come down, and voila! I’m legit! I’ve passed the stinkin’ arm-rest-test. And still, the lady asks me to get up and come with her off the plane. I get up without a fuss at all, quietly grab my bag, make eye contact with a fellow Fatty who was praying he’d pass, and leave.”

Southwest Air issued him a $100 voucher, but Smith was not pleased.

Though Smith was certainly able to get his side of the story out there, is Twitter the right medium for this sort of venting? Granted, Twitter is immediate, but if you can’t fit it into 140 characters, is Twitter really appropriate?

John Mayer’s Twitter-ific apologies

John Mayer really outdid himself in a recent Playboy interview.

It wasn’t enough for the singer-songwriter to dish on his relationship with ex Jennifer Aniston. Nor was it satisfactory to simply mention another former girlfriend Jessica Simpson–he had to compare her to “sexual napalm.”

John Mayer and Jessica Simpson

Sexual explicitness? Just not enough for Mayer. He had to take it one step further and use a racial slur.

“Someone asked me the other day, ‘What does it feel like now to have a hood pass?,’ ” Mayer said, slowly digging himself into a hole during the Playboy interview . “If you really had a hood pass, you could call it a n—- pass. But I said, ‘I can’t really have a hood pass. I’ve never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, ‘We’re full.’ ”

John Mayer and Jennifer Aniston

It’s a bit of an understatement to say that Mayer’s remarks in the interview weren’t exactly warmly welcomed by readers and fans alike. And what’s a celebrity to do (to attempt) to save face? Twitter, of course.

Apparently he couldn’t fit his apology into 140 characters, either–so it appeared in three separate Tweets:

“Re: using the ‘N word’ in an interview: I am sorry that I used the word. And it’s such a shame that I did because the point I was trying to make was in the exact opposite spirit of the word itself,” Mayer Tweeted Wednesday. “It was arrogant of me to think I could intellectualize using it, because I realize that there’s no intellectualizing a word that is so emotionally charged.”

Mayer must have really started to feel badly about the situation, because he quickly followed the above message with a few others.

“Again, because I don’t want anyone to think I’m equivocating: I should have never said the word and I will never say it again,” wrote Mayer from his Twitter account.

One of Mayer’s 3-million-plus followers responded, Tweeting, “They don’t make rehab centers for being an a-hole.”

Granted, being a celeb is like being an insect under a microscope–every aspect studied and analyzed. Using social media, Twitter, can be a way to quickly redeem (or at least try to redeem) themselves–but is it the right way?

Who Dat? Oh, Kim Kardashian.

Super Bowl viewers expecting Kim Kardashian to grace the screens of their TVs were sorely disappointed on Sunday evening. Unfortunately, those of us suffering from Kim-withdrawl didn’t get too much Twitter-wise during the big game, which is strange because she’d been anxiously awaiting her boyfriend’s Super Bowl debut. Post game, however, Kim posted some pictures, dispelling the rumor that she didn’t attend the game.

Reggie Bush

For someone tweeting so frequently about the Super Bowl, it seemed strange that Kardashian was nearly invisible during the game–both on TV screens and in the Twitter world.

Kim's nails pre-game.

Is it considered socially inappropriate to Tweet during certain events? Certainly having your iPhone out during church would be frowned upon, but does this mindset now apply to sporting events, too? Certainly people utilize social media during news-breaking events–Haiti, Middletown, Conn. power plant explosion. When is utilizing social media considered inappropriate?