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Online shots have been fired in the feud between Justin Bieber and Patrick Carney.

It all started last weekend, when The Black Keys drummer said Bieber should not worry about his lack of Grammy nominations because the event is based around music, not money.

"And he's making a lot of money. He should be happy."

Translation: Bieber makes crappy music.

Justin then replied that Carney should be slapped for the comment, which has led Carney to make the above change to his Twitter profile.

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U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) delivered his party's response to President Barack Obama's 2013 State of the Union address last night, and did a nice job.

The Senator's remarks were somewhat overshadowed, however, by the fact that at one point, he was seen awkwardly reaching for water in mid-speech.

Marco Rubio State of the Union Response

Before the clock struck midnight, there was already a #ThirstyRubio hashtag, various fake Twitter feeds (@Water4Rubio) and countless other memes.

Among the more obvious: "Stay thirsty my friends."

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Amanda Bynes is back in the news, for even more random and head-scratching reasons than usual. She took a shot at Jay-Z of all people, amazingly.

The troubled 26-year-old posted a Tweet reading "ugly face" and then linking to a photo of the rap mogul ... then deleted it from her feed a bit later.

Could Amanda Bynes' Twitter account have been hacked? Or did she simply share a random thought about Jay-Z before she thought better of it?

Probably the latter.

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A photo of Kyle Richards topless has turned up on Twitter. And we shudder to admit: we've got it.

Her husband, Mauricio Umansky, posted a photo of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star in the pool, staring into the camera, no top to be found.

Richards, of course, proceeded to re-Tweet the photo, seemingly reprimanding Umansky by writing as a caption, "we have children."

And, of course, publicizing the picture simultaneously.

It's almost as if that were her plan all along...

Former Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul is stirring up controversy with a Tweet about the death of Chris Kyle over the weekend.

Kyle, a retired Navy SEAL who authored the best-selling American Sniper about his tours of duty in Iraq, was shot dead with a friend over the weekend.

Eddie Ray Routh, who admits killing Kyle, is said to be a PTSD-suffering former Marine Chris was trying to help by taking him shooting at a hunting range.

Ron Paul had this to say on Twitter Monday:

"Chris Kyle's death seems to confirm that 'he who lives by the sword dies by the sword.' Treating PTSD at a firing range doesn't make sense."

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She may not have caused the Super Bowl blackout, but Beyonce's halftime show performance Sunday was so electric, it almost crashed the Internet.

Bey's supercharged (and very well lit) effort, which also featured Destiny's Child sisters Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, generated 5.5 million tweets.

Here's what some stars had to say about the Beyonce halftime show performance:

Kelly Clarkson: "The force and power that is Beyonce just shut the Super Bowl down ha! Too funny!"

Demi Lovato: "Y'all can keep watching the game but I think it's safe to say Beyonce just won the Super Bowl."

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The Super Bowl itself ended up being pretty lights out in a different sense, but the highlight on social media was undoubtedly the 34-minute Superdome blackout.

You know what they say: When the lights go out in New Orleans, the party really starts ... to the tune of 231,500 time-killing tweets per minute in this case.

Here are some of the funniest and most timely ones, from celebs and regular folk, when half the stadium went dark inexplicably early in the third quarter:

Neil Patrick Harris
All the lights are out!! It’s pandemonium!! Thank god we have our Beyonce finger lights!

Aziz Ansari
WHOA WHOA WHOA. Is this power outage a Fast 6 tie in?? IS THE ROCK ABOUT TO FLY A HELICOPTER THROUGH A TANK?!!

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Unknown hackers besieged Twitter this week and may have gained passwords and personal information of up to 250,000 users during the cyber-attack.

Twitter confirmed it was hacked in a blog post, saying that the passwords were encrypted and that it already reset them as a "precautionary measure."

The social network is "in the process" of notifying affected users.

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Is Selena Gomez trying to send a message to Justin Bieber via a new round of Twit pics?

The singer is clearly not letting a little break-up get her down, as she took to Twitter this week and released a trio of photos from fun time spent in the studio.

Gomez is sticking out her tongue. She's flashing a peace sign. She's making like Penny Lane from Almost Famous.

While Bieber is sad over the split, Selena appears to be very, very happy. Or that's what she wants everyone to believe, at least. Click around now:

Carly McKinney is a math teacher in Aurora, Colorado.

But apparently she's more focused on the birds and the bees than the Pythagorean Theorem... because McKinney has been suspended for posting naked photos on Twitter!

The 23-year old apparently did so under a bio that reads "BearCrunker than most. Stay sexy. Stay high. Stay drunk. Stay free. Stay trippy."

No, really. Think we could make that up?

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