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Apr 23 2013 01:29 PM ET

Associated Press' Twitter account hacked

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Another indication that you shouldn’t believe everything you read online: Shortly after 1 p.m. ET, the Associated Press’s official Twitter account sent out a message indicating that two explosions in the White House had injured President Obama.

Though the tweet quickly began circulating, it was a fake; as the AP’s media relations team wrote on its own account five minutes later, “That is a bogus AP tweet.” The AP also posted the following message on its official Facebook page: “The Associated Press Twitter account (@AP) has been hacked. Please do not respond to news posted there in the last 20 minutes.”

The hack comes just three days after the Twitter feeds for CBS’s 60 Minutes and 48 Hours were similarly compromised. On Saturday, a hacker or hackers posed messages on both accounts saying that President Barack Obama was “shamelessly in bed with Al-Qaeda.”

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Apr 20 2013 07:04 PM ET

'60 Minutes' and '48 Hours' Twitter accounts hacked

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The Twitter accounts of the CBS news shows 60 Minutes and 48 Hours were recently compromised, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The hacker or hackers posted tweets saying that President Barack Obama was “shamelessly in bed with Al-Qaeda”. Shorty after the tweet appeared, 48 Hours issued a tweet saying, “Our #48hours account has been compromised. We are working with Twitter to resolve this issue.” CBS also jumped in, tweeting, “We have experienced problems on Twitter accounts of #60Minutes & @48Hours; We apologize for the inconvenience; Twitter is resolving issues.”

Feb 9 2013 01:11 PM ET

Kings of Leon's Nathan Followill tweets photo of daughter

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Nathan Followill and singer/songwriter Jessie Baylin, his wife of three years, welcomed their daughter Violet Marlowe Followill back in December, but just formally introduced the now six-week-old to the world through Twitter. We were disappointed not to see a pair of drumsticks in her hands, but surely great things are in store for her with such musical parents.

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Dec 10 2012 03:34 PM ET

Busy Phillips is expecting second child

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Busy Philipps is expecting again, EW has confirmed.

The Cougar Town actress tweeted a photo of a positive Clearblue pregnancy test earlier today with the message “So this happened…” She and her husband screenwriter Marc Silverstein are already parents to four-year-old Birdie Leigh. The couple wed in 2007.

The fourth season of Cougar Town premieres on Jan. 8 on TBS.

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Sep 6 2012 10:52 AM ET

'Bridemaids' Chris O'Dowd gets married

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Chris O’Dowd, who played Kristen Wiig’s boyfriend in Bridesmaids, got married last week, People reports.

O’Dowd, 32, wed British TV presenter Dawn Porter, 33, on Aug. 26, celebrating with a three-day party. The couple met in 2009 and got engaged the day after Christmas last year.

“Just married!!!!” O’Dowd, who now guest stars on HBO’s Girls and will star in fall’s This Is 40, tweeted after the ceremony, along with a photo of himself and Porter clad in matching full-body sweatsuits.

The funnyman also posted a racy image of Porter in lingerie, along with the message, “There are times for restraint and there are times to boast about your sexy new wife! LOOK WHAT I GOT!!!”

The photo was later deleted and Porter tweeted, “That wasn’t the wedding photo I was planning to release. #husbands!!!!” Awww, how cute, it’s their first Twitter spat!

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Aug 6 2012 03:35 PM ET

Ellen Page receives death threats on Twitter

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Los Angeles police detectives are looking into a series of death threats sent to Ellen Page on Twitter that coincided with threatening calls to the L.A. Film Festival making similar remarks, a Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman confirmed to EW.

The spokeswoman wouldn’t give any details beyond the fact that the investigation started in June and is ongoing. Page’s recent film, To Rome With Love, screened at the L.A. Film Festival in June.

The Los Angeles Times, citing the search warrant affidavit, claims that anonymous calls to the festival threatened Page, and in one tweet the suspect wrote, “I’m going to murder Ellen Page. She’s dead.” Detectives in the case sought a search warrant to trace the Twitter account of the sender.

EW reached out to Page’s publicist, but as of press time, had not heard back.

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Jul 2 2012 05:08 PM ET

Alec Baldwin quits Twitter (again)

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Alec Baldwin is entering wedded bliss sans Twitter. Two days after marrying Hilaria Thomas, the actor has quit the microblogging site for a second time.

He tweeted his final message – “It’s been fun” – Monday morning before deactivating his account, according to E! Online.

Baldwin has used Twitter in the past to broadcast his rants, most memorably after getting kicked off an American Airlines flight last year (when he then took a month-long hiatus from the site) and more recently following a tussle with a Daily News photographer.

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Jun 8 2012 01:04 PM ET

Sherri Shepherd threatens legal action against Twitter bully

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The View co-host Sherri Shepherd took action yesterday after Twitter user @Daclonekiller sent a tweet directed at the actress saying “somebody should drag u in a back alley and rape you,” among other derogatory messages.

Shepherd responded on Twitter, writing, ” I’m not a little 19 year olds… I’m a grown @%$ woman… seriously you want to threaten me? I’m on my way to the police @DaCloneKiller” and “Just returned from filing a police report for this online harrassment [sic] nonsense. I will be pursuing this legally.”

Shepherd’s publicist released the following statement to EW: “Local law enforcement is  involved as well as corporate legal and security departments. This matter is being taken very seriously.”

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Mar 6 2012 01:12 PM ET

Patricia Heaton apologizes for Twitter attack

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The Middle star Patricia Heaton caused a stir on the Internet last week when she unleashed on Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke. After Fluke testified before Congress in favor of government-sponsored birth control, Heaton joined fellow Conservative Rush Limbaugh — who called Fluke a “slut” — in publicly twashing Fluke. Most notably, she posted, “If every Tweaton [her nickname for her followers] sent Georgetown Gal one condom, her parents wouldn’t have to cancel basic cable, & she would never reproduce – sound good?”

Like Limbaugh, Heaton has now apologized for her remarks. She tweeted Saturday, “Mea culpa Sandra! Wasn’t being respectful 2 u re my tweets as I hope people wd b w/me. Don’t like you being dissed -so sorry.” Heaton has deleted the inflammatory tweets and continues to post on the matter, reiterating her apology as recently as yesterday. Of course, she couldn’t resist tweeting a response to her detractors: “I still enjoyed being called a ‘twunt’ I must say.”

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