Planking is so 2011. Tebowing is so early 2012. The latest craze, heating up Hollywood at least? Makeup-free Twitter photos, as both Lady Gaga and Demi Lovato have gone all natural over the social network over the last few weeks. And now Jennifer Love Hewitt has joined the trend. What do you think of her bare look? If you aren’t a fan, have no fear. There’s always this Client List promo , in which Hewitt is made up… but seriously dressed down. Watch and drool over the video now.
Her Barbz sure hope so, but Nicki bid them ‘good f—ing bye’ on Sunday. By Kara Klenk Nicki Minaj Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/ WireImage On Sunday, more than 11 million Barbz had their lifeline to Nicki Minaj abruptly severed when the femcee shut down her Twitter account . Tensions initially escalated over Minaj’s accusation that a fan site had leaked some of her tracks and culminated in the rapper’s deactivation of her account. This move came as a shock to many of her fans, as Minaj was one of the most followed Twitter users in the world (she had more followers than Oprah!) and constantly filled her timeline with personalized responses to individual fans. It seems that maintaining such an open dialogue with her fans may have backfired as she formulated her last frustrated tweets including, “Like seriously, its but so much a person can take. Good f—ing bye.” While having a Twitter following in the millions certainly comes with perks, the negative comments undoubtedly wear on stars. Chris Brown has deleted his account and his tweets on more than one occasion, after getting fed up with comments from other users about his personal life. Brown and Minaj aren’t alone: John Mayer , Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato have all been Twitter quitters at one point too. Celebs ditch Twitter for a variety of reasons — after a scandal, over backlash from ill-thought-out comments, or sometimes just to focus on their career and not get caught up in the constant flow of communication the social-networking site thrives on. But it seems just as difficult to stay away. Brown, Lovato and Cyrus have all since returned to the site, while Mayer currently has a working account with zero tweets logged. But how long does Minaj have to decide about coming back to her millions of Barbz? According to a source at Twitter, after a period of inactivity (several months of not logging in), a deactivated handle can be reassigned to another user. However, before anyone thinks they can snap up the @nickiminaj handle in a few months, with a verified celebrity account, Twitter works with the user before any action is taken. So whether Minaj ever returns, no one should count on grabbing that user name anytime soon. Plus, if she does have a change of heart, her following will remain intact, so the Barbz would be the first to know about a comeback. Are you hoping Nicki comes back to Twitter? Let us know in the comments! Related Videos The Evolution Of Nicki Minaj Related Artists Nicki Minaj
Pinterest is now the third most popular social network in the country. Traffic to the digital pin-board rose 50 percent from January to February of this year, with over 21 million visits in the last week of January alone. Those numbers reinforce the potential for businesses to utilize yet another social channel for customers to Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : B2C Marketing Insider Discovery Date : 15/04/2012 19:27 Number of articles : 2
The photo-sharing social network, which was bought by Facebook for $1 billion, has attracted the likes of Selena Gomez and Wiz Khalifa. By Jocelyn Vena Taylor Swift Photo: Instagram / @TaylorSwift13 With the announcement on Monday (April 9) that it had been bought by Facebook for a cool $1 billion, Instagram seems destined to be the next big thing. Especially when you consider the fact that celebrities like Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian already smitten with the photo-sharing social network. Of the 30 million users on the site, a few A-listers have been using the site to connect to their fans and show a more personal side of themselves, giving fans an inside view of what it’s like to be them. So who are the most avid Instagram users in the celebrity world? Taylor Swift is a leader of the pack with more than 1 million followers. Her more than 70 photos include her hanging on the beach, chilling with her friends and, most recently, in Las Vegas, where she won Entertainer of the Year at the Academy of Country Music Awards. Like her pal Taylor, Selena Gomez connects by sharing a mixture of career-related and personal snaps with more than 1 million followers. Recently, she posted a snapshot of her and her dog, accompanied by the caption, “Me and chippers laying outside. He looks scared lol.” She has shared more than 150 photos on the social network. Meek Mill has posted more than 1,200 photos on his Instagram account to his nearly 250,000 followers. He often shares lyrics and photos of himself in the studio, with messages like “Me & @bigseangood just made greatness we gone drop it on y’all getting it next week!” Rihanna has used her Instagram to create a sort of look book, sharing her fashion photos with nearly 450,000 followers. One of her most recent looks was a photo of herself at 13, smiling and sporting braids. And Kim Kardashian has found yet another way to let the world in on her life through her account , which has attracted just shy of 1 million followers. The reality starlet recently poked fun at stepdad Bruce Jenner when she shared a photo of an old cereal box from his Olympic days with the message “Breakfast of champions!!!!” Chris Brown , under the handle f—yopictures , has a following of nearly 250,000. His 69 photos feature him on set and hanging around shirtless at rehearsals as well as photos from his shoe collection. Wiz Khalifa ‘s more than 350,000 followers get a sneak peek into his personal life with photos of the MC with his fianc
RihRih has been one of our favorite celebs to follow on Twitter for some time now and for good reason. Besides the prolific rapper quotables she’s dropped, she has been known to use the social media platform as a means to communicate with celebrity friends, frenzied fans and formidable foes (Hi Karrueche!) much to our amusement. And unlike her ex (who has been known to trash regrettable tweets) RihRih does all her dirt — from cursing, to sub-tweeting to tweeting under the influence of drugs and alcohol — all in the daylight. But she’s not all hard edges, especially when it comes to her fans. Currently in Japan promoting her role in the new Battleship film, Rihanna shared this gem yesterday: Sweet right? It gets sweeter.
‘DeAndre is a hot dude who appeals to the female demographic,’ ‘Idol’ blogger explains, while Han is backed by Vote for the Worst website. By Gil Kaufman Heejun Han and DeAndre Brackensick Photo: Getty Images There’s almost always a singer on each season of “American Idol” who makes it way deeper into the competition than expected. But season 11 of the show has seen two unlikely finalists — Heejun Han and DeAndre Brackensick — stumble into the top 9 and onto this summer’s cast tour despite a string of, respectively, jokey and lackluster performances that have drawn assorted raspberries from the judges and outright derision at times from music-industry icon and show mentor Jimmy Iovine. Their resilience got MTV News wondering if perhaps they have a special magic that some of the other eliminated finalists haven’t discovered yet. We spoke to some of our favorite “Idol” experts to take a look at the dynamic duo’s social-network presence to try to figure out how they’ve done it. For Brackensick, it doesn’t appear to be thanks to Twitter , where he had just 31,660 followers (dubbed “DreDreamers”) as of Tuesday evening and spent most of his time thanking fans for their support or complaining about poor WiFi at the “Idol” mansion. “DeAndre is a hot dude who appeals to the female demographic,” said leading “Idol” blogger MJ Santilli of MJsbigblog about the strange allure of the singer with a sky-high voice and hair-commercial-ready curls. “He’s sung well enough to give the impression that he’s got potential. The ‘Master Blaster’ performance — which Jimmy and the judges loved — was enough to keep him going for a week or two more, but if he doesn’t step it up, he’s going out mid-pack, too.” Heejun’s following on Twitter was a heftier 86,663 on Tuesday, putting him near the top of the social-networking heap among his fellow finalists. Not surprisingly for the yuk-loving singer, his interactions with fans are much sillier and more playful than most of the others, with a loose vibe that matches his onscreen persona, including lots of candid photos and suggestions that fans adopt the nickname “Hanimals.” He also has the dubious distinction of being the subject of this year’s target on the Vote for the Worst website. “Finally, the man we were waiting for comes out to play,” the site said in a banner promoting the vote. “Welcome to VFTW, Heejun. We love you. Here are lots of votes.” “Idol” expert Jim Cantiello said he gets Heejun’s appeal. OK, he doesn’t get it get it, but he can see how Han attracts attention by being a spectacle while everyone else is singing ballads — all the time. “His silliness supplies good .gifs for tumblr and easy fodder to tweet about,” said the former MTV “Idol in 60 Seconds” host. “Trust me, just like Sanjaya, the first time he has a performance that provides zero water-cooler talk, he’ll be dropped. Or as soon as it seems like powerhouse singers are in jeopardy, casual ‘Idol’ fans won’t be as quick to call in a vote for the clown.” Cantiello suspects Han has another thing going for him as well, whether it was all part of his devious plan or not. “Heejun’s got the whole bromance thing with Phil Phillips going on,” Cantiello said of the buddy-comedy vibe between the joker and one of this year’s leading male contenders. “So some of Phil’s fans are automatically into Heejun, and they’ll vote him through to keep seeing them be silly on TV together.” MJ agreed that Heejun is just good TV. Not only did he bring some unneeded extra drama to the Hollywood rounds by sparring with annoying Richie “Cowboy” Law, he’s shown his vulnerable and sensitive side as well. “Up until now, viewers wanted him on their TVs and most definitely wanted him on the tour, where he is likely going to be super-entertaining,” she said. “But now that he’s beginning to knock off vocally gifted finalists like Erika [Van Pelt], watch the backlash begin. I don’t think he’s got more than a couple of weeks left in the competition.” How do the seven other finalists match up on the Twitter tote board? Pint-sized cute Hollie Cavanagh actually comes in below Brackensick with 30,792 “Holliepops,” while faux-hawk flying singer Colton Dixon has one of the highest Twitter tallies at 92,458, putting him just ahead of foot-stomping Dave Matthews-alike Phillip Phillips , with 90,116 followers. Solidly in the middle of the pack is leading female contender Jessica Sanchez with 69,825 followers, while country girl Skylar Laine rounds out the bottom with 33,122 “Skoutlaws,” just ahead of gritty Elise Testone (23,969) and R&B crooner Joshua Ledet (23,618). Why do you think Heejun and DeAndre have survived this long? Let us know in comments below! Get your “Idol” fix on MTV News’ “American Idol” page , where you’ll find all the latest news, interviews and opinions.
Most people’s self-maps (Paradigms) are a function of the social mirror. People live up to the social mirror that surrounds them (Self-Fulfilling Prophecy). http://www.youtube.com/v/1D3dGrSutK0?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Excerpt from: Stephen Covey – 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Looks like her dad can’t call her fat anymore … Via Necolebitchie : Over the past few days, Rihanna began leaking a few details about what the next single will be from the ‘Talk That Talk‘ era, but, more importantly, she revealed that she’s already working on a new video for said single. Later, she gave a sneak peek at one look from the shoot in a photo that showed her topless with her hair pulled into a high bun. Despite being topless, she looked somewhat innocent. As far as the single, she won’t be serving up any “Cake” with ex-boo Chris Brown. The Rihanna camp decided to produce visuals for another ‘Talk That Talk‘ favorite called “Where have You Been.” Not sure why she looks like one of those sad “for only $2 a day” kids but we’re kinda digging Rihanna’s “Coming To America” African bush-baby princess steez. Are you feeling this? More On Bossip! Played: The Most Embarrassing Ways These People Found Out They Got Cheated On Coupled Up: Kimmy Cakes And Kanye West Cozy Up For The Cameras In Paris, Kim Rocks Ye’s $5800 Giuseppes [Photos] Tale Of The Tape: Rih Rih Vs. Karrueche…Which One Should Breezy Take?! Karma Is A Mother: Poor Fantasia Dumped By Baby Daddy Cuz He Thinks He Loves His Wife!
What will the future hold for Gabriel Aubry and his precious baby girl Nahla? According to TMZ reports : Gabriel Aubry just showed up at dependency court in L.A. where a judge will decide if even more restrictions will be placed on his custodial rights. Sources tell us the judge is expected to lay down a series of orders … requiring Gabriel to do various things to ensure the safety of 3-year-old Nahla. The judge will hear from the social worker on the case as well as the attorney appointed to protect Nahla’s rights. As TMZ first reported Gabriel was hauled into dependency court following a child endangerment investigation. Gabriel can only visit with Nahla in the presence of a court monitor and the judge has imposed other restrictions as well. What’s especially significant … once the judge establishes the ground rules for Gabriel’s visitation rights, the case will go back to family court where Halle is trying to convince the judge to allow her to move to France with the child. TMZ broke the story … Halle wants to move out of the country because of the problems she’s having here with paparazzi and stalkers. Image via WENN More On Bossip! Played: The Most Embarrassing Ways These People Found Out They Got Cheated On Coupled Up: Kimmy Cakes And Kanye West Cozy Up For The Cameras In Paris, Kim Rocks Ye’s $5800 Giuseppes [Photos] Tale Of The Tape: Rih Rih Vs. Karrueche…Which One Should Breezy Take?! Karma Is A Mother: Poor Fantasia Dumped By Baby Daddy Cuz He Thinks He Loves His Wife!
