Bollywood actor Imran Khan, who turned 27 Wednesday, says he spent his birthday engrossed in work.
‘I’m spending my birthday the same way I spent my last three (birthdays) – shooting! I like it that way,’ Imran, who has featured in movies like ‘Jaane Tu…Ya Jaane Na’ and ‘Luck’, posted on his Twitter homepage.
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TWILIGHT actress RACHELLE LEFEVRE has vowed to donate $1,000 to charity if 5,000 new people follow her on Twitter.com.
The 30 year old offered to hand over the cash to the Red Cross, which helps supply relief to millions of people worldwide, in exchange for fans joining up to her personal page on the microblogging website.
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‘Tweeting’ is like dating for rocker JOHN MAYER.
The serial Twitter.com user posts small talk snippets about himself and his opinions during regularly updates on the microblogging website, and he has
become convinced the constant interaction with his followers is the equivalent of taking someone out for dinner for the first time.
He explains, “Knowing that [...]
New Delhi, Dec 31 (ANI): Union Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has described his meeting with External Affairs Minister S M Krishna as excellent.
Tharoor posted his comments on the social networking Twitter on Thursday.
“Sorry abt(about) silence ydy (yesterday).1stday (first [...]
London, December 23 (ANI): Singer Lily Allen has revealed the reason she dropped her accounts on Facebook and Twitter, saying she wants to regain her “real life”.
The 24-year old singer, who used to be one of the music world’s most prolific bloggers, said she renounced the popular social networking sites to become a “neo-Luddite”.
“I just [...]
London, December 23 (ANI): Singer Lily Allen has revealed the reason she dropped her accounts on Facebook and Twitter, saying she wants to regain her “real life”.
The 24-year old singer, who used to be one of the music world’s most prolific bloggers, said she renounced the popular social networking sites to become a “neo-Luddite”.
“I just [...]
Washington, December 21 (ANI): Hottie Tila Tequila has decided to become a surrogate mother for her brother.
The reality star announced her pregnancy through a post on Twitter.
“I am going to become a SURROGATE MOTHER for my brother and his Wife!!…That is my xmas present to them. I’m pregnant!!!” Us magazine quoted her as stating.
Tequila had [...]
Washington, Dec 15 (ANI): A newlywed couple’s action between the sheets was broadcasted on Twitter after the groom’s best friend rigged their bed to send a message on the micro-blogging website every time the couple had sex.
In a Twitter feed, the best man explained that he was asked to [...]
Hip-hop star KID CUDI has turned his back on social networking – because he’s sick of “sad” people duping his fans by using his name online.
The Day N’ Nite hitmaker was an avid fan of websites including Twitter and Facebook, but he’s cancelled his accounts so his followers won’t be fooled by impostors.
He writes on [...]
“Fk Twitter! That’s the biggest waste of time. If people got their face out of the internet and their head out of their a, they might fking get out and accomplish something.” FOO FIGHTERS frontman DAVE GROHL isn’t a fan of social networking sites.
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London, December 04 (ANI): A man in the US is so obsessed with Twitter that he updated his page while standing at the altar.
A YouTube video of Dana Hanna’s wedding shows him take out a phone from his suit and enter a post.
The man from Maryland even interrupts the priest and passes a second mobile [...]
London, November 30 (ANI): Twitter, the popular phenomenon of social networking, has been named the top English word this year in a survey.
Texas-based Global Language Monitor put together a list of the top words and phrases and found that the word was more popular than Obama and H1N1, commonly known as the “swine flu”.
Wrapping up [...]
Washington, Nov 25 (ANI): In a blog, American actress Nicole Richie has revealed that she still needs to stay home in bed and recover from her bout with pneumonia.
Richie, 28, who had been hospitalised following the illness, thanked her fans for the support they gave her.
“Right now it’s important for me to stay in bed [...]
EVA MENDES is urging fans not to fall for internet impostors posing as her on social networking sites.
The actress is baffled when fans and friends believe they’re really chatting with her on Facebook and Twitter because she’d never put her saucy snaps online like the hoaxers do.
She says, “I’m not anti (against) it but I’m [...]
London, Nov 21 (IANS) British singer Cheryl Cole has dismissed rumours about her split with husband Ashley Cole and insists that they are very much together.
To prove this point, the singer has flashed her wedding ring on Twitter with the message – ‘Diamonds are forever.’
Cheryl has also told her friends that she and Ashley [...]
London, November 20 (ANI): Jim Carrey’s daughter/singer Jane has married her lover Alex Santana in a private ceremony.
‘The Mask’ star confirmed the development through a post on Twitter.
“My Jane is a married woman. Days ago her and my new son in law Alex got hitched. [...]
Beijing, Nov 16 (DPA) US President Barack Obama Monday said he was ‘too clumsy’ to use popular social-networking websites such as Twitter, despite aides making extensive use of them during his election campaign.
Obama told some 500 students in Shanghai that he had never used Twitter but supported unrestricted access to all internet technology.
‘My thumbs are [...]
New Delhi, Nov 13 (ANI): Pop diva Britney Spears has become a victim of Internet hackers.
The Toxic singer’s Twitter and MySpace accounts were hacked and the messages posted on her page claimed she worshipped the devil.
However, several of the messages were deleted after Spears’ management regained control of the account, reports China Daily.
The 27-year-old singer’s [...]
London, Nov 9 (ANI): Socialite Kim Kardashian has passed on the title of biggest butt to her brother.
Kim, 29, whose backside is the most talked about since Jennifer Lopez, said that her brother Rob should be given the honour, reports the Sun.
And to prove her point she posted a picture of his derriere on Twitter [...]
London, Nov 9 (IANS) Actress Lindsay Lohan was recently spotted in an alley behind Crow Bar in Los Angeles talking on her mobile and crying.
Just last week she had mentioned on Twitter that her father Michael Senior had threatened to kill her mother if she left him, according to dailymail.co.uk.
The actress said, ‘She blames herself [...]
London, October 29 (ANI): A blogger has been soaring in popularity after becoming the world’s first owl to post tweets on hit microblogging website Twitter.
Tommy the female tawny owl began uploading regular short messages about life on Totnes Rare Breed Farm in Devon, where she lives, last month.
She was said to have already gathered hundreds [...]
London, Oct 26(ANI): A recent survey done in the UK has revealed that the cost to the economy due to use of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook by office workers during office hours could be over 1.38 billion pounds per year.
The survey on 1,460 office workers commissioned by Morse, an IT services [...]
London, October 17 (ANI): Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst has filed for divorce from wife Esther Nazarov.
The papers presented in a Los Angeles court stated “irreconcilable differences,” as the reason for [...]
London, October 14 (ANI): Actor Jamie Foxx has admitted to having a crush on actress Kirstie Alley, strengthening rumors that the two are dating.
The ‘Ray’ star confessed his attraction to the former ‘Cheers’ actress on Conan O’Brien’s U.S. talk show.
“I used to have a crush on Kirstey Alley back in [...]
London, Oct 5 (ANI): Here is another reason for you to join Twitter, for slim people worldwide are now posting their healthy food diet on ‘Tweet What You Eat’.
The food chart also gives the calorific value of the food.
And because millions around the world see the online food chart, people are “shamed” into following [...]
Washington, October 3 (ANI): The first astronaut to tweet from space has passed an important social media milestone, as in he now shares his daily experiences with more than a million followers on the micro-blogging service.
The astronaut in question is NASA’s Mike Massimino, known as @Astro_Mike on Twitter.
Massimino flew in May this year, aboard [...]
San Francisco, Sep 25 (DPA) Internet messaging sensation Twitter is to close a new funding round of $100 million from investors who value the company as high as $1 billion, the New York Times reported Thursday.
The privately held company, which is yet to register a profit, intends to use the funds to beef up its [...]
Washington, Sep 11 (ANI): Twitter has become a rage, right from college students to celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, and researchers at Penn State University have now claimed that the micro-blogging site is also benefiting companies.
Jim Jansen, associate [...]
London, Sep 10 (ANI): British drivers are increasingly using micro-blogging site Twitter while they are behind the wheels, and are thus putting themselves and other in danger, says a new survey.
The survey for online insurer, esure, found that almost one in 10 drivers were found to use mobile Internet services and social networks whilst driving, [...]
Washington, September 3 (ANI): Singer Michelle Williams has denied saying that the Destiny’s Child is reuniting.
British tabloid the News of the World had quoted her as saying, “It will definitely happen. We’re sisters, we love each other and we want to work on the future of Destiny’s Child.” [...]
