Source: SOPA Images / Getty Tired of Twitter’s algorithm choosing what Tweets you should see or reverse-chronological timeline? Well, we are happy to report this latest update will give users the ability to choose which way they want to view Tweets instead of being stuck with either or. Twitter fell in love with the idea that it thinks its users would rather see old Tweets they have missed or popular Tweets the algorithm believes you would want to see. In reality, most Tweeters would still rather just see new Tweets from individuals they follow pop on their timeline in real time one after the other. But just so no feelings will be heard and to reduce the number of people sending off angry Tweets about its algorithm, the company introduced the new ‘Sparkle Button’ that allows you to switch back and forth between either timeline options. The new feature is rolling out for iOS users starting today and coming soon to Android owners soon. New on iOS! Starting today, you can tap to switch between the latest and top Tweets in your timeline. Coming soon to Android. pic.twitter.com/6B9OQG391S — Twitter (@Twitter) December 18, 2018 There is a downside to the addition of the ‘Sparkle Button’ because it takes the place of the settings button. So to gain access to the settings menu you will have to access in the accounts hub when you click on your Twitter avi. We won’t be shocked if there is a contingent of users who will find this very inconvenient. Still, a very interesting update to say the least. We shall see if it improves everyone’s Tweeting experience going forward or it makes it even worse. — Photo: SOPA Images / Getty
A Lamb coming to the defense of an embattled Bear. You don’t see that often in the animal kingdom. Nor do you see the same creature birth a Pumpkin and a Chickadee, then drop 300 pounds. We’re not entirely sure where we were going with that, but not all intros can be winners, and you get the general idea. The point remains: Nothing about June Shannon’s life is conventional. The Here Comes Honey Boo Boo matriarch recently lost 300 pounds on Mama June: From Not to Hot , but she can’t shed her baggage. Her weight loss chronicles became a sleeper hit for WE tv, especially in later weeks when it delived into June’s relationship with Sugar Bear. To make a long story short, June said Sugar Bear abused her , a claim that is not sitting well with his new wife Jennifer Lamb. At all. June publicly savaged Mike “Sugar Bear” Thompson as a wife-beater and serial cheater, allegations he denies – and his new wife is livid over. Jennifer Lamb, 43, married Suge, 45, this winter, and took to her Facebook page to assail Shannon and come to her husband’s defense. “I have the best man in the world that loves my kids, and loves his daughter very much also,” Lamb, a mother of two, said in her post. “So go ahead [and] judge but at the end of this day he only has one judge,” Jennifer said, though clearly she isn’t taking this lying down. The only time, she says, that she’s ever seen Sugar Bear get angry was at the Mama June: Not To Hot reunion taping (video above). When the discussion veered into a zone he didn’t care for, Mike absolutely lost his s–t on June and Shannon’s daughter Pumpkin, 17. He also lost his shirt, in the literal sense. “If you keep a cat cornered and poking at it, it’s finally going to get tired and come out [of] the corner fighting,” Lamb said of the outburst. Lamb adds that Shannon’s story about Thompson abandoning daughter Alana (Honey Boo Boo) after their nasty 2014 split is bulls–t. The “doting” father called and texted his daughter every day for months, Lamb alleged; Sugar Bear said June lied about this as well. According to the Bear-Lamb camp, June largely and repeatedly ignored his requests to spend time with the retired mini-pageant queen. “ Mike and I went every weekend to [Hampton, Ga.] to see Alana. “He would get up around 11 a.m. and call June to be able to see his daughter, then it would be 4-5 p.m. before she called back to let him see her.” “And then sometimes we would sit there and never get to see her. I have him calling and texting every other day up until the first of the year.” After that setback, he began trying even harder, Jennifer says: “Then he started texting and calling about four times a week.” Thompson vehemently denies Shannon’s allegations that abused her or that he left her children with “emotional and physical scars.” “The abuse allegations are not true,” Suge said earlier this month. “This is not true, any of it. June won’t let me see or talk to Alana.” “The last time I saw Alana was at mine and Jennifer’s wedding … I’ve tried to stay in touch with my daughter but June won’t let me.” Moreover, “I never told Alana to lose weight or said anything to Alana about her weight. June’s a damn liar. I would never hurt Alana.” There’s no love lost on either end of this feud, clearly. Asked recently if she has any feelings at all for her ex-partner, June basically said that Sugar Bear sucks and deserves what he gets: “No. I’ve never hated anybody as much as I hate him.” “I have to call him out on his bullsh-t,” she added, defending her recent media blitz. “How, like, reality hit. I knew what I needed to do.” Look for this to get worse before it gets better.
People have a deep, inexplicable love for Starbucks, and so many of them will lose their damn minds over a new beverage. That's a fact, and it's always been a fact, but it's been proven again this week with the release of a new limited edition drink, the fabled Unicorn Frappuccino. If you've been on social media at all in the past few days, you've likely seen reaction videos, reviews, fancy filtered pics of this thing. People are obsessed with it, for whatever reason, and they're lining up at their local Starbucks to try it for themselves. And for one barista, the pressure was simply too much. Braden Burson works at a Starbucks in Colorado, and on his way home from work yesterday, he was so frazzled by the Unicorn Frappuccino that he felt the need to make a video about it. It's enthralling, alarming … it's so many things. He kicked things off in a pretty calm way, explaining that the drink had just come out that day, and that it's a mango-based cream drink with a sour twist — most reviews say it's disgusting, by the way. He said that it's the most popular drink in Starbucks history, which is true, and that people have been clamoring for it. But then, and this is where things get interesting, he has the breakdown. “Please don't get it!” he screamed. “I have never made so many frappuccinos in my entire life. My hands are completely sticky. I have unicorn crap all in my hair and on my nose.” “I have never been so stressed out in my entire life,” he lamented. “If you love us, as baristas, don't order it.” Poor Braden said that the drink is just so difficult to make, and to make one right after the other is tough. It's clear the pressures of the job have gotten to him — seriously, we weren't joking when we said that he loses his mind. We feel for him, but, interestingly enough, you know who else is showing sympathy for him? Starbucks itself! Some people have expressed concern that Braden would get fired over such a rant, but TMZ is reporting that Starbucks is actually reaching out to him to try to figure out how to make things easier on baristas. A happy ending — who would have thought? See the video that started it all below:
Freaks on a plane??? Via NY Post: “Real Housewife” Kim Zolciak is as feisty off camera as on. She nearly came to blows with a woman on a flight to New York on Tuesday for allegedly hitting on her hubby, Atlanta Falcon star Kroy Biermann. The fracas began after the other woman thought Zolciak and Biermann had entered the bathroom to join the mile-high club — and the unidentified passenger also wanted to become a member with Biermann. “I’m claustrophobic in the bathrooms on planes, so I always have my husband hold the door [shut],” Zolciak told us at a Bravo presentation at Pillars 37 Studios. The other woman apparently mistakenly thought Biermann slipped into the toilet with Kim for an intimate encounter. Zolciak said that when she exited, “This lady’s looking at me like I’m going to get it on with my husband in the bathroom . . . I’m kind of walking back to my seat and my husband walks out, and she looks at him and winks and [starts] flirting.” Back at her seat, the reality star told Biermann she was going to go back and confront the woman. But “my husband was, like, ‘Just sit down.’ ” SMH. SplashNews
A. Keys pumped the breaks on “Malcolm?!?” Shemar Moore Says Alicia Keys Rejected Him When He Asked Her On A Date Before R&B songstress Alicia Keys went from mistress to main thing and went public with her love for her former ruff riding rapper/producer hubby Swizz Beatz, there was a mile-long line of guys thirstin’ after her soul-singing cakes. Hollyweird man-candy Shemar Moore recently revealed that he was one of those guys. While introducing Mrs. Thickums before she hit the stage to scream for her life perform during last night’s 2013 People’s Choice Awards, Shemar recalled a time when he asked her out on a date when they first met 10 years ago…..and got shut all the way down. “I was hosting Soul Train… I asked her out on a date and she looked me dead in the eye and she said this: ‘Look here, son, I respect your flirt game but my man situation is handled.’ “What are you supposed to say to that, because I had nothing at all. But I’m not mad, I will always be a fan.” Awww, poor thang. Wonder what made A.Keys decide not to take him up on his offer…
Hate it or Love it?? Kerry Washington ‘s been on one red carpet after the other while promoting Django Unchained and she’s been a showstopper in each country the cast has visited. For the London premiere of Django, Kerry opted for a more classic look. Donning a white and gray, horse print ball gown by Giles Deacon for the event, Kerry looked stunning as she rocked a berry-stain on her famous lips. Hit the flip for more and check out some of Kerry’s other looks from the promotional tour!
Filed under: Roger Huerta , TMZ Sports , Celebrity Justice TMZ just spoke with Roger Huerta — the former UFC fighter involved in a bloody street fight in Texas this weekend — who tells us he only got violent … after the other guy swung at him. In a phone conversation just moments ago, Huerta told us he tried… Read more
‘As a trilogy, it really ends,’ Michael Bay says.Kara Warner By Kara Warner Michael Bay on the set of “Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen” Photo: Jaimie Trueblood In one of the more un -surprising bits of news released this week, director Michael Bay confirmed that his third Transformers movie will be released in 3-D. The blockbuster-making explosions enthusiast also revealed they’ve done away with the highly criticized “dorky comedy,” named the film’s new villain and promised a solid ending to the trilogy. “One thing we’re getting rid of is what I call the ‘dorky comedy,’ ” Bay told USA Today on Thursday (June 10). “So the twins, the two bumbling, slang-spewing robots? They’re basically gone,” he said, and singled out actor John Turturro (Agent Simmons), who will provide comic relief for the film. Loyal fans of the ’80s source material will be excited to learn that the film’s villain is Shockwave, the one-eyed robot recognizable by his signature laser cannon, who became dictator of the Transformers’ home world of Cybertron after the other Autobots and Decepticons journeyed to Earth. Major plot details are naturally under wraps, but Bay hinted that the story involves the space race between Russia and the U.S. and the Transformers’ role in it being one of the planet’s most dangerous secrets. “The movie is more of a mystery,” Bay says. “It ties in what we know as history growing up as kids with what really happened.” For those who still have issues with the much-maligned sequel, Bay said he accepts “some of the criticism,” but cited the film’s tight production schedule and quick turnaround time as reasons why certain elements of the film didn’t work. “It was very hard to put [the sequel] together that quickly after the writers’ strike [of 2007-08],” Bay said. He promises fans a “final crescendo” and fitting end to the trilogy, however. “It’s not three multiple endings,” the director said. “As a trilogy, it really ends,” he says. “It could be rebooted again, but I think it has a really killer ending.” Check out everything we’ve got on “Transformers 3.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Artists Michael Bay
