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Over the weekend, Lady Gaga became the first person to break 10 million followers on Twitter.

And not a single one of them understands what the hell she is singing about at the beginning of "Bad Romance."

[via Mashable]

Daniel asked his black fans to share the love on Twitter.

Did you catch his tweet last week?

If you missed it, make sure you're following Daniel on Twitter for the chance to have one of your tweets appear on air in a future episode!

Featuring some of the latest Twitter and Facebook comments about Tosh.0.

Make sure you are following Daniel on Twitter.

Not just so you can live tweet with him during the East Coast airings of Tosh.0, but for the good of the United States Armed Forces!

Live tweet with Daniel TONIGHT during our Season Premiere at 10pm/9c on Comedy Central!  It'll be the best 30 minutes of your Twitter career!

Featuring some of the latest Twitter and Facebook comments about Tosh.0.

Alright, Brian.  You win.

We have Facebook followers.

You've been acknowledged.  Now quit yer whinin'!

Twitter user Guy Dayan (aka @guygo) created a cool little Twitter "hack" reminiscent of when people started hacking their Top 8 back in the golden days of Myspace.

By encouraging 30 people to change their Twitter profile image and then following those 30 people in a particular order, Guy was able to transform his list of who he is following into an image of a bird.  (Watch his whole process above.)

To fully comprehend the experience, I decided to try to recreate his Twitter bird design with my own account.  And, yes, I was successful.

Problem is, I then decided it's about time I started following America's Funnyman Neil Hamburger and that jerk unintentionally screwed up my awesome Twitter bird.

So basically, this Twitter hack is great, assuming two things:

1) You never want to follow anyone else again.

2) The 30 people don't conspire against you to change the image from a bird to someone's balls or something.

Oh, that reminds me: I am looking for 30 volunteers that are willing to use a harmless pic that I'll send them, as their profile pic.  And by harmless, I mean it's probably 1/30th of a pic of someone's balls.

Oh, so the moral of the story: This probably foreshadows the end of Twitter, just like it foreshadowed the end of Myspace.

Good riddance.

Has anyone else been annoyed by these "Who to follow" lists that recently popped up on Twitter?

At first, I just tried to ignore it.  No, I don't want to follow MacGruber.  I'm the only one in America who actually saw the movie!  What more do you want from me!?

Eventually, I began pounding on the "X" buttons to make them go away, but they just kept coming back like the Terminator T-1000.  They couldn't be destroyed.

And then it happened…  The same suggestion came up twice.  I had entered a "Who to follow" wormhole where suggestions are able to look back upon themselves.

"Who would you like to follow, Mike?" I could hear Twitter asking in its lifeless, monotone, robotic voice.  "How about Pee-wee Herman?"  It pauses.  "Or why not try following Pee-wee Herman?"

Now, I don't know Pee-wee Herman.  I'm not even sure if he's a real person.  (He isn't, is he?)  I don't necessarily want to be following him.  But I couldn't resist.  Twitter had bent time and space.  And so I followed him.  I followed Pee-wee Herman.

Twitter won.  I clicked on "X" after "X" after "X" and yet I could never fully terminate the "Who to follow" list.  They broke me, but they had to alter the cosmos itself to make it happen.

Anyway, ball's in your court, Herman.  Hope you have some great tweets up your sleeve.

Featuring some of the latest Twitter and Facebook comments about Tosh.0.

There are things in life worth fighting for. Some say religion, some say love, and others say Tosh.0.

You may have lost followers, Chef Terri Dien, but you've gained a community of friends! Friends that will cooter kick you! Friends that care.

Mashable reports that Britney Spears may be poised to overtake Ashton Kutcher as the most followed person on Twitter.

Don't think this is a big deal?  Well, ZOMG, it, like, only determines who I will heart most for all of time.

People want to make a big deal about the next Supreme Court nominee, but seriously, when is the last time anyone read anything written by the Supreme Court?  Never.  Unlike the Supreme Court, the person with the most Twitter followers yields important power… power over the microblogosphere!  That's one of the largest subsections of the blogosphere.  This is important stuff.  This is where people can obtain information 140 characters at a time.

Still don't think this is a big deal?  Yeah, I thought so.  You don't.  Because it isn't.

For one brief moment, Twitter users had found the key: the way to make anyone on Twitter follow them whether they liked it or not.

As Mashable reported yesterday, users could get anyone to follow them by tweeting the word "accept" and the username of the account they wanted to be following them.

Conan O'Brien's account suddenly jumped from 1 follower to nearly 200, causing him to send out the tweet above.  Ha!  That Conan…  So jolly for an unemployed guy… (unlike my dad).

Needless to say this bug was the "roofies" of social media: Sure you could get people to follow you, but you didn't feel good about it the next morning.  And eventually you all knew you'd get caught… which is what happened.

Twitter reports they have fixed the bug and are rolling back all the accounts that exploited it.  I guess it's for the best.  Justin Bieber probably didn't want to be following me anyway.  Probably…

So this guy Tom Scott has created a web page called "Stupid Fight" that claims to analyze whose Twitter followers are more stupid.  You enter in two account names and the site rates the people following them from "smart as a whip" to "dumb as a bag of hammers."

To see how well this system works, I did the most logical thing: I put Daniel Tosh's Twitter account up against the account of the guy who created it: Tom Scott.

Surprise, surprise: Tom Scott thinks his own followers are less stupid than all of you!

What do you think of Tom Scott and his obviously biased program?!?  Personally, I think he smells like a sack of smelly monkey balls and I follow Daniel Tosh.  Does that make me an idiot?!?!  DOES IT??!?1!>?!?

[via Mashable]