Katy Perry’s been doing the rounds for Team Obama.
She’s out, performing at rallies, lunching with FLOTUS, getting her Grandma out to vote early and receiving shoutouts from Prez Obama.
Katy is also saying that she will RT (retweet) people that vote — in a cute outfit — on Election Day.
“If you’re over 18, and you have a real cool outfit and you wear it on Tuesday, you tweet me and I’ll retweet it,” she told an Obama-Biden rally crowd in Milwaukee.
The Twittersphere was abuzz about a photo that the Obama team tweeted in response to Clint’s speech. It featured Barack in his chair and said, “This seat’s taken.” The same photo also went viral on Facebook when the Obama team posted it with the same text (this time, placed upon it).
Did the POTUS just tell Clint to go ahead and make his day … in a very funny way?
Yeah, we think he did.
Donald Trump pulled a very ungentlemanly move on the Twittersphere this week.
The development mogul went on an angry rant against Huffington Post Founder Arianna Huffington, saying that she’s “unattractive both inside and out” and that her former husband made the right move when he “left her for a man.”
Meanwhile, Arianna is staying classy by not rising to his taunts.
In response to comments from the haters, Donald explained that he didn’t think his comments were “harsh.”
Jim and Ryan from the Genius Bar in Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown Apple store have their very first endorsement — from none other than Newt Gingrich.
The former Speaker of the House tweeted a photo Thursday morning with the two employees after they rushed to his iPad’s rescue.
Awkward smiles all around
Making it to the Olympics is kind of a big deal.
People spend their entire lives training and competing to represent their country, which, in itself, is a huge honor.
So, if someone gets kicked out of the games and sent back home, it is usually because they did something pretty stupid and embarrassing — like tweeting racists statements about their fellow Olympians.
That’s what Michel Morganella, a member of the Swiss soccer team, did.
Normally, when a politician gets a noticeable boost in his or her social media presence, it’s seen as a good thing. But, hey, this is the 2012 presidential election — so, nothing’s normal.
Last week, Mitt Romney’s official campaign Twitter account, @MittRomney, gained more than 100,000 followers. Now, for the most part, the Romney campaign has been slowly working to catch up to President Obama’s massive domination of Twitter. They’ve been gaining between 3,000 and 4,000 followers a day for the last month, so an increase of this size is pretty noticeable and have many led quite a few people to suspect that something is afoot.
Snoop Dogg must have a killer meditation routine — because nothing fazes him.
The ganja gangsta — who was stopped in a Norwegian airport for possession of marijuana (and cash exceeding the legal limit) last month — just released a new music video with fellow puff daddy, Wiz Khalifa, called “French Inhale,” in addition to a tirade of stoner tweets and Instagram photos of, well, we’re not really sure.
“I don’t party … get this motherf**er out of here,” he said when a reporter asked him about it.
Here’s the future of vending machines: tweeting for your selection.
Yep, a South African beverage company, BOS Ice Tea, launched a new promotion this month.
It installed a vending machine/robot named “BEV” in Cape Town’s Wembley Square that basically dispenses a free drink when you send a tweet while standing in front of it.
The system works by looking out for a specific hashtag and then comparing it to the machine’s geographical location. If a tweet matches up, it then dispenses a drink.
We can’t wait for this to catch on, especially with the vending machines here at Glittarazzi HQ — because we’re pretty sure that all our tweets would then consist of #dietcoke, #funyuns and #dorritoscoolranch.
Sen. Susan Collins Fires Social-Media Staffer For Twitter Mix-Up
Anyone who has ever had to use social media for work knows the fear of mixing up professional and private accounts.
You see, up until very recently, Luke Welch was a “New Media / Press Assistant” for Sen. Susan Collins, the junior senator from Maine. On Wednesday, it seems that Luke meant to send out a personal tweet, criticizing Sen. Bernie Sanders. It read, “Good ol’ @SenSanders is always entertaining. Not a huge fan. I’ll give him this, the genetically modified food label makes sense.” But, Luke didn’t send it from his account … he sent it out through Susan’s official Twitter feed.
