The Year's Best Twitter Hoaxes

So what if Spears herself isn't doing much of the tweeting

(NEWSER) - Just nine days after Mashable's prediction , it came to pass: Ashton Kutcher has been dethroned as Twitter’s reigning superstar. Britney Spears , despite a distinct lack of tweets actually posted by the singer herself, officially has the most followers on the microblogging site, though the numbers constantly fluctuate. Both are near 5 million followers; at the moment, she has about 3,600 more. More»

She's on track to overtake Ashton Kutcher

(NEWSER) - This might matter in only a parallel universe, but Ashton Kutcher is on the brink of losing his title as Twitter king. He's got nearly 5 million followers, but he's a mere 10,000 or so ahead of Britney Spears. What's more, she's on track to overtake him within a month, reports Mashable , which not only provides a trending graphic but a breakdown of the rivals' tweeting strategy. (His is way better than her "hollow," promotional account, writes Jolie O'Dell.) See his account here and hers here . More»

Also: Is Megan Fox dating co-star?

(NEWSER) - Never fear: Britney Spears is alive. A post from her Twitter account claiming she had died is false, the AP reports, a result of the hacking of her Twitpic account. Ellen DeGeneres’ account with Twitpic—a program not owned by Twitter—was also hacked. Elsewhere:

• Rumors continue to fly that Transformers co-stars Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf are dating. “They definitely seemed into each other” at a recent dinner, a source tells the New York Daily News.

She uses feed to clear up 'misquoting'

(NEWSER) - Sarah Palin is following some fellow Republicans on Twitter, but she's not showing any love for former running mate John McCain.The Alaska governor is keeping tabs on Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly of Fox, David Gregory of NBC, George Stephanopoulos of ABC, and CNN, but not nemesis Katie Couric—or anyone else from CBS, the Washington Examiner reports. More»

(NEWSER) - The parallels between Twitter and LSD are just too trippy for blogger Phil Baumann to ignore. “What was once a side project, a sort of laboratory experiment,” he writes, “has now seeped into the public domain and everyday more and more people are tripping tweeting.” Highlights from his top 25 ways that Twitter resembles LSD: More»