Snoop Dogg Wants to Perform With Bob Marley 3D Hologram

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Snoop Dogg has been known for many things throughout his career, from his long list of hits as a solo artist to his very vocal love of marijuana. But he's also developed a reputation for being cutting edge and social savvy In addition to his large presence on Facebook and Twitter, he made news last year for his powerful performance alongside a hologram of the late rapper Tupac Shakur. Earlier this week, Snoop Dogg — also more recently known as Snoop Lion — teamed up with Mashable for a Twitter chat Q&A with fans and offered insight into his artistic motivation, favorite collaborators and if he would perform with another 3D holographic artist in the future. Read more... More about Snoop Dogg , Entertainment , Music , Twitter , and Snoop Lion Read more »

Demi Lovato Is Premiering Songs Based on Intensity of Tweets

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Every song from Demi Lovato's fourth studio album, Demi , will premiere online way sooner than fans anticipated — but only if those fans, a.k.a. "Lovatics," tweet like crazy Lovato's camp launched LovaticsSpeedUpTime.com on Monday, challenging fans to tweet the song name (in hashtag form) that appears on the site. For example, "#WithoutTheLove" is track three on the album. Fans swarmed Twitter to promote the hashtag and subsequently unlock the YouTube video for "Without The Love." Who wants to hear my album RIGHT NOW??? #DEMI demilovato.com — demetria lovato (@ddlovato) May 6, 2013 #WITHOUTHELOVE #WITHOUTHELOVE #WITHOUTHELOVE #WITHOUTHELOVE @ ddlovato u make us crazy we're soooooo addicted!!!!!! — † ☆ вєℓιєνє ☆ † (@StayStrongger) May 6, 2013 Read more... More about Twitter , Music , Entertainment , Social Media , and Celebrities Read more »

Does Kanye West’s Cryptic Tweet Hint at Baby Due Date or New Music?

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Rapper Kanye West turned Twitter into a guessing game on Thursday when he tweeted a cryptic message to his 9.4 million followers: "June Eighteen," he wrote Does the date refer to his pregnant boo Kim Kardashian's due date? Or new music from Kanye? Both? Or something entirely different? At this point, it's anyone's guess June Eighteen — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) May 2, 2013 We've reached out to Def Jam Recordings, his label, to comment on the new album rumors. We'll update this post once our Def Jam contact confirms or denies whether West has new music coming June 18 West's tweet is the only one on his account, having had deleted his others last fall. The new tweet has been retweeted more than 20,000 times since Thursday morning Read more... Read more »

6 Winning Vines From Tribeca Film Festival

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Films, like many things in life, come in all shapes and sizes Tribeca Film Festival gave new meaning to short films this year, however, when it challenged people to create six-second films using Twitter's Vine app After narrowing the field of 400 submissions to 40 earlier this month, judges for this #6SecFilms contest announced the winners this weekend. "We were most impressed with the creativity at play when it came to the submissions, after all, making a film or even telling a story in six seconds is not an easy feat," said Genna Terranova, Tribeca Film Festival's programming director. SEE ALSO: 35 Ways Musicians and Music Brands Are Using Twitter's Vine App Read more... More about Twitter , Entertainment , Movies , Social Media , and Film Read more »

IFC and Marc Maron Overshare Their Way to Success

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Comedian Marc Maron has no problem expressing himself. "Can you hold on a second," he asks me during our phone call. "I have to deal with some bullshit." The "bullshit" Maron is talking about relates to some drama surrounding the promotion of his new show, Maron , which premieres on IFC on May 3, 2013. As with most things in his life, the situation indirectly ties into his social media personality. Maron has more than 200,000 followers on Twitter and a big following with his podcast, " WTF with Marc Maron ." Part of his appeal as a personality is his willingness to put it all out there on the Internet. Read more... More about Twitter , Comedy , Ifc , Marketing , and Media Read more »

Twitter’s Job to Manage Its Twitter Has Twitter Atwitter

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Do you like Twitter ? More importantly, are you a "power user" skilled in the Twitter arts? Twitter just might hire you to run its Twitter An online job posting for a social media manager position at the microblogging giant began making the rounds among Internet types on Friday afternoon. Its megadose of meta had Twitter, well, atwitter. It's hard to tell with these things, but New York Magazine 's Stefan Becket seemed to kick off the fun, and others doubled and tripled down on the Twitter tweeting: Twitter hiring Twitter person to manage their Twitter twitter.com/jobs/positions… — Stefan Becket (@stefanjbecket) April 12, 2013 Read more... Read more »

Twitter Pushes Android App Update To Fix The “Me” Tab Bug

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Over the weekend, we told you about an issue with Twitter’s Android update from last Wednesday. The issue centered around the “Me” tab not loading properly, just giving you a spinning wheel on a white screen. Users took to Twitter to complain about the bug, saying that they couldn’t access important features on the screen, like reading DMs and switching accounts. You could search for yourself and tap on your avatar to find your way to your profile, but that was a hack more than anything else. Most users just thought they had a bad connection and waited for the screen to load…forever. Today, the company released an update to the app that fixes the bug: v4.0.1 - Fixes “Me” tab loading issues - Improved UI on Honeycomb devices I’ve confirmed with multiple people who were having the problem that this update does indeed fix the issue, and the “Me” tab is now loading quickly. It didn’t seem to affect every Android device, but the folks it did affect have been pretty loud about it since last Wednesday. Here’s a tweet from just a few hours ago: https://twitter.com/Sumz__ox/status/321342582221328384 Consider the bug squashed. Read more »

The Story Behind the Hashtag: #BestLieEver

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Trending topics hit Twitter every day. In this recurring series, "Behind the Hashtag," we take a look at the most intriguing ones — of any nature — being tweeted across the web One of today's most popular hashtags, #BestLieEver, is all about stretching the truth to friends, family and, yes, even yourself . It started early Thursday by Jai Brooks, one of five members of Melbourne, Australia-based YouTube comedy group The Janoskians . The original message, below, was retweeted more than 5,500 times #BestLieEver of course i read the terms and conditions! — Jai J.D Brooks ⚓ (@JaiBrooks1) April 4, 2013 Read more... More about Twitter , Trending Categories , Hashtags , Trending Topics , and Trending Read more »

March Madness Teams Disappoint on Social Media

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It might sound hard to believe, but 29 out of 64 basketball teams in this year's NCAA "March Madness" competition have both a Facebook and Twitter presence But round a of applause goes out to teams such as Notre Dame University, Indiana University, Georgetown, Ohio State and the University of Miami — these schools are rocking both platforms According to SportStream , which provides a social second-screen experience for sports fans and teams, about 45% of tourney teams have team-specific accounts on both Twitter and Facebook. As for those that don't, we're looking at you, Syracuse Orange. (And the Arizona Wildcats, New Mexico Lobos, Kansas St. Wildcats, VCU Rams and so on). Read more »