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  • Drake and Miguel Lose the Internet

    Tracy Clayton is a writer, humorist and blogger from Louisville, Ky.

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  • Yahoo Buys Tumblr

    (The Root) — After weeks of speculation, it has been announced that Yahoo will purchase Tumblr, a very popular blogging-site platform used to share various types of media. Yahoo’s big to purchase Tumblr for $1.1 billion has reportedly been approved by both Yahoo’s and Tumblr’s boards of directors. If the move seems desperate, it’s because…

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  • Woman Gets Job via Instagram

    (The Root) — Our daily tasks involve social media more and more. Watching television, breaking up with our old mates, finding new ones — we’ve found ways to incorporate our online interactions in ways we never would have dreamed before. Samantha Bankey recently added “getting a job” to that list, having recently been offered a…

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  • Twitter Listens to Kanye

    (The Root) — Beginning at around 9 p.m. last night and stretching into the wee hours of the morning, Kanye West’s video for his new single, “New Slaves,” premiered in an innovative way — projected on the sides of buildings at 66 locations around the globe. The song can most accurately be described as “very…

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  • Twitter Lands Bahraini Activists in Prison

    (The Root) — It’s not rare for people’s behavior on social media to land them in hot water; people lose their jobs all the time for things they post on Facebook or put on Twitter. But in Bahrain, tweeting the wrong thing about the wrong person just might land you in prison. That’s what happened…

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  • NBA Star Addresses Lawsuit on Instagram

    (The Root) — Why waste time having your public relations team release an official statement when you can do it yourself via social media? That seems to be NBA star Nick Young’s logic. The Philadelphia 76er is being sued by a woman alleging that he raped her two years ago. Young has vehemently denied the…

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  • 'Scandal' Season Finale Captivates Twitter

    (The Root) — Shonda Rhimes did it again. She nearly killed Twitter with the Scandal season finale last night. Scandal hashtags (such as #ScandalABC, #AskScandal, and #Gladiators to name a few) were trending all day on both Twitter and The Chatterati. Twitter woke up Thursday morning ready to talk about the show, and per usual,…

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  • Breaking Up in the Digital Age

    (The Root) — Once upon a time, breaking up with someone was as simple as erasing their phone number from your telephone book, ripping up a few pictures and asking your friends not to say his or her name around you. Now, in an age in which everything is tagged, liked, reblogged, retweeted and favorited,…

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  • NBA to Televise Social Media Awards

    (The Root) — Social media continues to change the way we do things. This is most recently evidenced by NBA TV’s decision to televise its Social Media Awards this year. The awards, in their second year, will air on June 12 on TNT. Voting for nominees and winners, which will occur via Twitter using the…

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  • Lupe Fiasco Gets Put in a Time-Out

    (The Root) — Everyone knows by now that rapper Lupe Fiasco is not afraid to speak his mind, but apparently he made his management nervous on Twitter last night. After a debate with fellow rapper Talib Kweli about violence in rap music, Lupe ventured into a discussion about Marxism with a few folks on Twitter,…

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