Have you met IKEA Monkey, the 7-month-old runaway primate dressed in a shearling coat that was found casually wandering around a Toronto IKEA store yesterday? According to the National Post, the monkey was spotted by staff members in the store's upper parking lot after escaping out of the cage and the car belong to its (now former) owners. This picture (shown left) was subsequently posted online by Bronwyn Page via Twitter, where the fashionable simian has already become a meme of sorts.

Newark's celebrity mayor Cory Booker is living on food stamps this week, keeping the promise he made on Twitter last month to walk in the shoes of his struggling neighbors in the East Coast's industrial hub city. Today, he had no choice but to skip his cup of coffee this morning and tweeted about it.

Pope Benedict XVI has joined Twitter as part of The Vatican's continued effort to step up its social media presence. The Pope will answer questions on matters of faith that are hashtagged #AskPontifex and submitted to his Twitter handle @Pontifex (which is the latin word for "Pontiff") beginning on December 12—just in time for Christmas celebrations—according to the Vatican's senior communications adviser Greg Burke. Not surprisingly, parody accounts impersonating the Pope have already surfaced.

R&B singer Chris Brown apparently shut down his Twitter account last night after getting involved in a heated exchange with Houston-based comedian Jenny Johnson. The feud began when Johnson took a snappy jab at Brown's one of many self-obsessive, worthless remarks (shown left) about his aging look, provoking a series of embarrassingly inarticulate tirades from the hotheaded 23-year-old singer and his Twitter fanbase #TeamBreezy. Head over to BetaBeat for more details on this exchange.

As expected, a fog of war is looming over the Gaza Strip (and on Twitter) following the Israeli Defense Force's air strikes yesterday that killed the Hamas military commander Ahmed al-Jabari and Hamas' retaliatory missile attacks overnight. As of 5:30 p.m. (ET) today, three Israelis and 19 Palestinians have been confirmed as casualties of the hostile exchange, during which 250 target sites were struck by the IDF and 274 rocket missiles were launched by Hamas militants. The toll is expected to rise as IDF reportedly began mobilizing 30,000 reserves along the border. Meanwhile on Twitter:

• The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) took the news of airstrike operations to Twitter as its jets began attacking.
• Within minutes, Hamas announced that its top leader had been assassinated by Israeli planes via Twitter.
• Around the same time, IDF spokesman's office uploaded videos of air strike footage onto YouTube.
• Twitter users responded with pro-Israeli #PillarOfDefense and pro-Palestinian #GazaUnderAttack hashtags.

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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.

For more funny tweets, head over to Know Your Meme's article on Drunk Nate Silver.