Twitter is quickly becoming the new Facebook. We all love to see and hear what our friends, and even celebrities, are doing, so why not follow them on Twitter? I am here to show you the funny and controversial things that these people post on Twitter for everyone to see. After all, their mistakes do make us laugh.
Weird title right? Well I am sure it is all too familiar for high school senior Emma Sullivan. The 18-year-old from the Kansas City suburb of Fairway was taking part in a Youth in Government program in Topeka, Kansas. The group she was with was listening to Republican Governor Sam Brownback. She tweeted from her cell phone: "Just made mean comments at gov. brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot." Brownback's office, which monitors social media for postings containing the governor's name, contacted the youth program. Sullivan said she was called to the principal's office for the first time ever and told to apologize in writing to the governor, after she said she was just joking with friends.
Governor Brownback was forced last month to admit that his staff overreacted last month when they contacted the youth program. "My staff overreacted to this tweet, and for that I apologize," Brownback said, "Freedom of speech is among our most treasured freedoms." Brownback's office declined to discuss its social media monitoring in detail, but politicians and governmental offices across the county are increasingly keeping an eye on the Internet for mentions of their campaigns or policies. Many officials even maintain their own Facebook and Twitter accounts to inform constituents of events or policy announcements. Anyways, Sullivan's tweet caused her Twitter followers to rise to more than 21,000 people, from a mere 61. Many of these people voiced their support for her and came to her defense about not writing the apology letter.
This post has a lot of similarities to the post from October, Rashard Mendenhall. In both tweets, the issue of freedom of speech was present. Was it alright for Sullivan to tweet that? It sure was. Just as Justin Hall did, she tweeted controversial things that some people could look at as derogatory. But, this country is modeled around freedom of speech, so I support people like Emma Sullivan, Rashard Mendenhall, and Justin Hall. These are the people that raise the true issues because they aren't scared to be reprimanded for what they say. Sullivan, I applaud you for making the headlines for something so simple, #tweeting.
America's Next Top Model has become a very popular television show over the years. Talk-show host and model Tyra Banks launched the show in May of 2003 to have a number of women compete for the title of America's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry. The shows first winner was Adrianne Curry, a girl from Illinois. Curry is known to be an avid fan of Star Wars, costume play, and World of Warcraft. She created some stir in 2010 when she tweeted about playing World of Warcraft, naked. Yes, I did say naked.
In 2010, Curry tweeted, "jumping into shower.going to spend my afternoon playing World Of Warcraft butt naked&stoned.Perfect Sunday!" Curry proceeded to upload this picture on her twitter while saying, "me...naked...playing World Of Warcraft" Many people thought she was lying about playing the game, so she silenced the non-believers when she tweeted "Level 34, bitches....level 34. ::dances the dance of a quickly leveling warrior whore::" and "I have done playboy twice.I have done terribly naughty bad things,but people made a big deal about my PG rated nekkid WoW pic? huh." This is just funny to me. Why would you post a picture like that on Twitter for everyone to see? Stupid if you ask me.
As I stated, Curry is an avid fan of Star Wars, costume play, and World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. The game has a lot resemblance to another massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Second Life. Second Life is an online virtual world where you can make your own avatar. People often make these avatars to have a "second life" where they can be whoever they want to be. Its possible that the avatars people make in World of Warcraft and Second Life are the total opposite of who they really are. I wonder if Curry portrays herself on her WoW account. Either way, she was giving #tmi through her Twitter.
