Awkward Moment of the Day

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Submitted by: Unknown (via The Daily Dot)
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Meet Hashtag Jameson, a newborn baby girl who has reportedly been named after the metadata tag used on Twitter.

Hashtag of the Day: 2Deep4U

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2deep4u is an abbreviation of "too deep for you," indicating that a piece of artwork or internet media may be too profound or obscure in nature for its audience to appreciate. It is most frequently used on Tumblr as an indictment of pomposity that often prevails in the hipster subculture, or in sarcastic defense of a niche subgenre in music or visual art.



Hashtag of the Day is a feature series following the latest trending hashtags on Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram.

Hashtag of the Day: #SoftwarePirateConfession

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Submitted by: Unknown (via Ars Technica)
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If you search Twitter for the hashtag #SoftwarePirateConfession, you'll find pages after pages of tweets calling on people to stop using pirated iOS apps. The automated spam campaign was launched by Enfour, a mobile app developer offering a variety of dictionary apps, to shame those who illegally downloaded its apps without paying, but the plan backfired when the feature kicked in for legitimate users earlier this month. According to Enfour's VP of Communications, the app has been since updated to fix the auto-tweet problem, but the debate continues on Twitter with Pocketables editor Andreas Ødegård's recent blog post on the issue.

#FutureMittJokes of the Day

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Mittens just can't catch a break -- the GOP candidate joked while campaigning in Michigan early this morning that "no one had ever asked to see my birth certificate," and the Twitterverse promptly sprang into action.

Check out the latest here.

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