Twitter fights, subpoenas and Twilight

I was inspired this week to share links that were in some cases dramatic and in others just plain unbelievable.

• A city in Montana has been asking recent job applicants to turn over information about their social networking activity online. And by information, I mean, they are requiring passwords to Facebook, Myspace and even forums! [Switched]
• Guess what doesn't stay in Vegas? Internet anonymity! In other surprisingly similar news, a Las Vegas newspaper has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury to release information on the identities of their commenters. [ReadWriteWeb]
• Guy tweets "so my apartment just collapsed". Luckily he was way across the country at the time, but woooow. [Mashable]
• This year's graduates are being documented by MTV News as to their hopes and fears, milestones and defining moments. Of these defining attributes, one is America's election of its first biracial president, while another is a popstar wearing a suit made out of sequin bubbles who sings about disco sticks. Priorities, folks. [MTV News]
• DRAMA INDEED: Infamous gossip blogger Perez Hilton was in Toronto covering the MuchMusic awards when he claimed on Twitter that he was physically attacked by Black Eyed Peas' frontman Will.i.am. It gets stranger: instead of immediately calling the police about the incident, he begged his thousands of followers to summon the police to his hotel. As of Monday morning, Will.i.am had already taken to videoblogging his side of the story on his very own account. [Daily Contributor]

This week's photo credit: dpdixon/Flickr

Whitney Sides Mitchell is an intern social media planner for Luckie & Company, founder of the local-music blog BHAM.FM and a music blogger for AL.com. Her Social Pathology Report appears here each Friday.

Comments

[Sugar Jones]

The Perez Hilton incident is amazingly ridiculous. He used his phone to contact others to pick up their phones to call the police. I suppose he was looking for a public outcry? Silly. That's one diva who I pray has come to the last of his fifteen minutes.