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 have gone through each and every one of those tweets to bring you the 10 Dumbest Tweets of the Week. Sure, we may have lost all feeling in the left side of our body, but it was worth it!
Lindsay Lohan managed to show up to court almost an hour late this morning, after taking an overnight flight on a private jet sponsored by an energy drink from New York to LA. She got glitter-bombed on the way in, so at least she's looking fabulous.
This (NSFW) video of Hitler reacting to the end of Google Reader is being passed around Twitter with the reckless abandon of people who just realized they're losing their favorite way to follow the internet.
As we advance deeper into the 21st century, a Senator's press secretary is at least as likely to be getting the word out on Twitter than communicating with the press in more traditional ways.
So when Brett Wanamaker decided he wanted to surprise his girlfriend Beth Adelson, who is the press secretary for Virginia Senator Mark Warner, with a marriage proposal he had a pretty good idea where to find her.
When you get tired of all your "comedian" friends working on bits, maybe take the time to follow these massive corporations on Twitter. Why? Because they're funny and sometimes they give you free tacos. That's probably more than you can say about your friends. Here are five to follow.
Hap-Bieber-thday, Justin Bieber! Justin may have celebrated his birthday by taking off his shirt and partying until six in the morning (much like a 19-year-old girl on spring break would do), but we're going to celebrate with his fans. Here are some glitter GIFs (awful) and some #imagine tweets (cringeworthy) to remind the world what JB's greatest contribution to the world has been -- his totally bonkers fanbase.
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.)
Things got weird in the burger wars yesterday when hackers broke into the Burger King Twitter page and started firing off pro-McDonald's tweets.
It's Valentine's Day, and we all know what that means. #CandyHeartsRejects is trending on Twitter, again. At this point it's basically a Valentine's tradition, like buying chocolates or getting into a blackout fight.