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Last week, Jimmy Kimmel aired another edition of "Celebrities Read Mean Tweets" on his show. If you have not seen it, the segment's name says it all really.

Jessica Simpson, Jessica Alba, Kelly Ripa and many others recite harsh words that people on Twitter have said about them in recent weeks.

For Kelly, Jess and Modern Family's Julie Bowen, the haters bashed their weight, while Ray Romano and Zach Braff drew comparisons to fecal waste.

Gwen Stefani, meanwhile, makes some people want to "kill myself and then puke" with her band's music. Pretty standard. Check out the fun clip below:

Celebrities Read Mean Tweets

Looks like it's SO ON between Chris Brown and Rihanna ... just not in the romantic sense this time. More like the passive-aggressive Twitter feud sense.

The latest Chris Brown-Rihanna split was confirmed by the R&B star, who said earlier in the week that "Im'ma do it solo" but didn't really get into why.

From the looks of their social media accounts, there may be some lingering bitterness on both sides, not just drifting apart because of long distance, etc.

You don't have to read between the lines too aggressively when Rihanna, shortly after the split, goes and posts an Instagram image like this one:

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Yesterday, the Sacramento Bee reported that legendary actress/singer Lena Horne died at the age of 92, citing an obituary in The New York Times.

The only problem? She died on May 9 ... 2010.

It's unclear how the Bee blew this, but Lena Horne began trending nationally and countless news outlets picked up the story (which they have since taken down).

On Twitter, thousands of users mourned, tweeting condolences as if it just happened.

“Just learned Lena Horne passed away. Saddened. A legend. A true star,” one wrote.

“Crying so hard. I didn’t know that her death would affect me like this!” said another.

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In the wake of Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev's apparent breakup, one cryptic Tweet from the former has Vampire Diaries fans all ... well, atwitter.

The couple had been together for three years. Shortly after the news of their split broke, Ian posted a quote from deceased playwright Lillian Hellman:

"A thought for today: 'People change and forget to tell each other.'"

Is that a thinly-veiled shot at Nina? A commentary on relationships in general? Just a cool quote he came across and likes that has no bearing on this?

We don't know, and likely never will. Yet it's hard not to speculate.

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Fans of TV who love Twitter but hate spoilers, meet Jennie Lamere.

The 17-year-old entered the TVnext Hack event in Boston and not only won her category, "Best Use of Sync-To-Broadcast," but also won Best In Show.

Her creation? Twivo, a TV spoiler blocker made for Twitter.

An extension of Google Chrome, Twivo lets users type in key words they would like to block and for how long. Take the example of Game of Thrones spoilers.

If you missed the episode but have it on DVR and still want to be on Twitter, enter keyword "Game of Thrones" and you won't see any tweets about it!

So for The Bachelorette spoilers, you'd have to start like two months before the premiere, since Reality Steve starts posting them then. Just FYI.

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You do not want to cross Bethenny Frankel on Twitter.

Already dealing with an ugly divorce and custody battle, the former Real Housewife went off on a hater yesterday, responding to some serious vitriol with a bit of her own.

"cupcake decorating w bryn at dc cupcakes & now girls' lunch," Frankel Tweeted harmlessly. "It's crazy to be able to spend a real girls' day w the peanut. #fliesby"

In response, some moron fired back:

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Rainn Wilson is not happy.

The man who has delighted us with The Office quotes for nine seasons as Dwight K. Schrute has now provided some classic one-liners of a different note.

Rainn took to Twitter Friday to go absolutely go off on U.S. Airways after he and six other cast members missed their connecting flight to Scranton, Pa.

This happened after it left before the scheduled departure time. One could say that the airline - in honor of Adele's birthday today - set fire to the Rainn.

"So ‪@USAirways just screwed me & half the cast of The Office," he wrote. "Conctng flight left BEFORE departure time. Sorry Scranton won't see u til tom." ‬

And he wasn't even close to finished.

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Amanda Bynes is at it again on Twitter, this time slamming Jenny McCarthy of all people after the Playboy legend expressed genuine concern for her.

Last night, Jenny heard from an unreliable source (Jonathan Jaxson) on Twitter that police were knocking down Amanda's door in fear for her life.

After passing along the rumor - which no reliable site, THG included, even bothered running - out of true concern for Bynes, Amanda let her have it:

"I need help?" she Tweeted at Jenny. What are u talking about? Aren't u 50 years old? I'm 27, u look 80 compared to me! Why are you talking about me?"

"You're ugly! Police weren't at my house old lady! Shut the f–k up!"

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Warren Buffett is now on Twitter, ladies and gentlemen.

The 82-year-old sadly did not select the handle @OracleOfOmaha, opting for the simpler @WarrenBuffett when he joined the service this morning.

His entire, awesome Twitter history to date:

"Warren is in the house." Enough said.

The handle has not yet been verified by Twitter, because it's only been about an hour and fifteen minutes, during which he's gained 73,000 followers.

However, it was confirmed by Fortune, which hosted the Berkshire Hathaway CEO and one of the world's richest people on a live webcast Thursday.

Other recent big-name converts to the social media site include Rupert Murdoch (@RupertMurdoch) and the Big Dog himself, Bill Clinton (@BillClinton).

Rihanna can be seen cozying up to and kissing a fan on Twitter in a couple of photos that are SURE to eat away at her on/off boyfriend Chris Brown.

The singer snuggled up to a guy named Justin Laboy on Sunday in a series of Twitter images, with the pair affectionately kissing on the cheek:

The photos found their way online after Rihanna's weekend performance in Newark, N.J., and just as the latest rumors of strife with Chris surfaced.

With speculation rife that the duo is currently in one of its "off" phases, these Rihanna pictures are only throwing gasoline on the proverbial fire.

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