How has Twitter gotten celebrities in trouble? Let us count the ways…
Over the years, Twitter has become the unofficial medium for celebrities to air their (bad) news – and for all of us non-celebrities to gawk, point, and shake our collective heads at the stars’ all-too-human predicaments.
So in honor of Twitter’s eighth birthday, here are eight memorable ways celebrities have landed in hot water over what they shared on Twitter:
Happy eighth birthday, Twitter! Here’s to many more years of you providing us with entertaining, but sometimes troublesome, celebrity tweets.
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