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Taylor Swift is not dead. The 22-year-old songstress joins a not-so-illustrious group that includes country superstars like Reba McEntire and Garth Brooks, in that she is the latest victim of an online death hoax. Recently, all three of these acts have made membership in a group that no one would want. Thankfully, the ‘Mean’ singer is alive and well and this was all a, well, mean joke.

With Memorial Day last weekend, many country stars took to Twitter to make sure their fans know the reason we’re free to celebrate an extra day off before the start of summer. A few, like Kellie Pickler, went a little further. Learn who had the most touching messages to the troops in This Week’s Best Tweets.

As a holiday weekend approaches, it’s clear that a few country stars may have begun celebrating a little early. Joe Nichols has something to celebrate, while a few others — like Jerrod Niemann and Tyler Farr — may just be celebrating life. Of course Blake Shelton is included in this list of the week’s best tweets, but his submission is much more domestic than fans are used to — but still hilarious

As the Digital Managing Editor it's my job to understand and interpret trends in social media. Lately I've been spending time trying to understand the hot new social media site Pinterest, and I'll be totally honest: I just don't get it.

I live for technology. No matter where I am or what I'm doing I always have my iPhone, a laptop, and an always-on internet connection. From the moment I wake up to the last minute before I go to sleep at night, I'm connected in some way to the internet. I think, more often than not, you are too, and it's all starting to become too much.

You may not be able to search for your own Tweets on Twitter after a week, but a marketing research company in the UK can now search all the Tweets Tweeted since January of 2010. This is possible because Twitter just sold Datasift the right to sort through them.

There are people who love Facebook and people who love Twitter — and now scientists think they’ve discovered why those preferences exist, and what they say about the people who hold them.

President Barack Obama is set to hold his first Twitter town hall on Wednesday. The president will answer questions submitted by using the #AskObama hashtag via a live webcast at 2 p.m. ET at askobama.twitter.com.

The French government is notorious for banning the use of English words as a way of maintaining French language and culture. However, a recent ruling by the French government, which now makes it illegal to speak the words "Facebook" or "Twitter" on television or radio newscasts, isn't as shocking as you might think.

As May 21, the day a loosely organized ministry predicts to be Judgment Day, approaches, comedians and the every-day Tweeter took to the Internet to poke fun at the idea of a rapture occurring this weekend. Below are some of the funniest tweets about the rapture. Today's top tweets includes quips from Jason Santa Maria, Craig Phillips, Dan Cronin, Jill Kushner, Damien Fahey, Amber Tozer, Adam Hamm

The Arizona shootings have ignited a national discussion about whether an inflammatory image on Sarah Palin's website inspired killer Jared Lee Loughner. There's no evidence that supports the allegation, but the Twittersphere decided to make Palin the scapegoat for just about everything else and the hashtag #blamepalin was everywhere. Below, some of our favorite #blamepalin tweets:

Stupid social media trends are the chain letters of the 2010s.  Here's the latest one.  It's called the Number Game, and, sadly, your friends may REALLY try to suck you in.  Here's how it works:  --Someone sends you a private message on Twitter or Facebook containing a random number...