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After specualtion in the press last week regarding the fate of  Oprah Winfrey’s iconic talk show, The announcement to end it in 2011 came this morning. The announcement was made with a few tears. Oprah is reportedly making the move in order to devote time to her network OWN. She is also, your hot twoppic of the moment.

Your hot twoppic of the day is Miley Cyrus’ tour bus, which flipped early this morning in Virginia, killing the driver and injuring nine others. Miley was not on the bus. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.

Your hot twoppic of the week is the new “Twilight” movie, “New Moon,” which opened last night. The fans who have seen the movIe are raving. And even if you saw it last night, once may not be enough. Fans are saying they want to see it again and again.  The movie is expected to break box office records for the largest midnight opening and the biggest single-day sales on Friday. @lindsaytt tweets  I‘m absolutely exhausted, but New Moon was totally worth the 3 hrs of sleep and not doing so well on my Chem quiz.

Now time for your celebrity tweets on the street: Singer Rob Thomas @ThisIsRobThomas tweets OPRAH is going to stop filming her show in 2011. Who is going to tell me what to feel?

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Early Thursday morning an FAA computer glitch caused flight delays and cancellations, making the FAA the hot twoppic of the moment. The glitch involved the computer system that allows pilots to submit flight plans. The FAA’s Kathleen Berg explains.  The glitch lasted about 5 hours — a “ripple effect” is expected to impact flights nationwide throughout the day.

The hot twoppic of the day is Mac, which is trending due to a twitter promotion. A new app called Voices is available for free if you sign up on their website and spread the word through twitter. Have you always wanted to sound like Darth Vader? Or maybe a chipmunk? With Voices, you can choose among 17 different characters and record a voice memo in that voice.

It’s  finally here: “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” is in theaters tonight at midnight. To call the movie highly anticipated would be a major understatement – “Twilight” fans have been in a twitter frenzy, tweeting about the movie’s love triangle and whether they are Team Edward or Team Jacob, making “New Moon” your hot twoppic of the week. The film has sold the most pre-sale tickets  than any other film, topping previous record holder, “The Dark Knight. ” It is expected to slay the weekend box office competition. @Chrisxtine tweets New Moon tonite!! New Moon tonite!! ) Been waiting months!! And it’s finally the day!

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People Magazine announced their 2009 Sexiest Man Alive – and they are bringing it back to Johnny Depp, who is the hot twoppic of the moment. Depp held the prestigious title in 2003 — he becomes the first man to get such an honor twice in one decade. And at 46 years old, the star can hardly complain at being described by People as “the king of cool with the killer cheekbones.” Other honorees include the boys from the TV show  “Glee,” soccer player David Beckham, and “American Idol” runner-up, Adam Lambert. @laurennbrookss tweets Johnny Depp? I think he deserves sexiest man alive a thousand times over. Just looking at him makes a girl swoon!

Your hot twoppic of the day is #HappyBdayFab, a trend started by rapper Fabulous himself. He first tweeted @myfabolouslife Today, A Star Was Born! Clap 4 him! Its my birthday!! Thank u all! TT is #happybdayfab. He tweeted again a little later to get #HappyBdayFab to the number one trending topic.

The hot twoppic of the week is #openwebawards, which refers to website mashable.com, who is hosting their 3rd Annual Open Web Awards, Social Media Edition. The nomination period is over – online voting for the top five nominations in each category begins today and lasts until December 13^th. Winners will be announced December 15^th.

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Tweeps in Indonesia sure know how to make trending topics — the hot twoppic of the moment is #tebakbandtranslate, a twitter game where you pick the name of a popular band or song and translate it into Indonesian.

The hot twoppic of the day is Beyonce. Today the sexy video for her new single, Video Phone was released. The ubiquitous Lady Gaga lends her vocals to the track  and she appears alongside Beyonce in the video,  which features fierce fashion and shows the pop stars wielding toy guns at the paparazzi. Critiques of the video were surprisingly harsh on Twitter: @nathangt67 tweets the new Beyonce vid, is a good reminder how true talent is no longer needed to be famous @JuliaMella tweets Video Phone sounds okay. The video was okay too. Lady GaGa & Beyonce could’ve done so much better. Still a fan tho. (;

Attention all techies…your hot twoppic of the week is #pdc09, which is the hashtag grouping together tweets from Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference being held in Los Angles from November 17^th to the 19^th.  In his opening keynote address, chief software architect at Microsoft,  Ray Ozzie, described the company’s “three screens and a cloud” vision, where software experiences are seamlessly delivered across PCs, phones and TVs, all connected by cloud-based services.  @mattnevans tweets Watching the #pdc09 keynote right now. WOW there’s some AMAZING stuff happening at MS!

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It was an exciting day of football on Sunday — the Indianapolis Colts pulled out a come-from-behind victory against the New England Patriots. Pats Head coach Bill Belichick decided to go for it instead of punting with 2 minutes to go, and Tom Brady & Co came up short – which paved the way for the Colts to score. The nail biter is your hot twoppic of the moment.

Your hot twoppic of the day is Lady Gaga – fans can catch her performing her new single “Bad Romance” tonight on the hit show “Gossip Girl.”  Gaga will perform in a red dress with a 35 foot long train.

Your hot twoppic of the week is President Obama. During a town hall meeting with students in Shanghai, the President admitted he’s never used Twitter. That spawned the trending topic  I Have Never Used, which now is mostly spam. But, even if he doesn’t use Twitter, the President sees the value of it. He argued for more open internet access in China where internet censorship is common.

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It’s official – there is indeed,  water on the moon. Last month NASA sent the LCROSS probe crashing into the moon’s surface to see if there was water under the surface of the moon. They found not just a little bit – but a significant amount of water ice at the lunar south pole. NASA plans to return astronauts to the moon by 2020 for longer missions on the lunar surface – the discovery could be used as a local resource to support a lunar base, making NASA your hot twoppic of the moment.

The anticipation has been building and building and soon…the wait will be over. “New Moon,” the latest movie in the “Twilight” saga will be released November 20th, and is your hot twoppic of the day.  The film stars Kristen Stewart as the innocent  human Bella  and rumored real life boyfriend Robert Pattinson as the brooding vampire, Edward. The new film will complicate things with a love triangle, adding  hunky teenager  Taylor Lautner, who plays a werewolf and Bella’s best friend.

Hot twoppic of the week is video games. Modern Warfare 2 (MW2) was released last week and is still a top trend on twitter as tweeps post tricks and tips to playing the game. Today it was announced that Final Fantasy XIII will be released on March 9th, 2010. Gamers, let the countdown begin.

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Your hot twoppic of the moment?

Lou Dobbs signed off for the last time last night on the Cable News Network, saying he wanted to go beyond CNN. CNN has tapped the network’s chief national correspondent John King to replace Dobbs.

Your hot twoppic of the day? Britney’s twitter was hacked! #donthackbritney started trending after the pop stars twitter had a message suggesting Spears followed a Satanic religion. Luckily, the hack was quickly fixed.

Your hot twoppic of the week is a girl who sure knows how to stay in the headlines: Carrie Prejean. Earlier this week was a sex tape scandal, then last night on “Larry King Live,” the beauty queen threatened to walk off the show over after a question regarding her decision to settle a lawsuit with the Miss California USA pageant. Prejean repeatedly told the host that he was being “inappropriate,” and soon after, walked off the show.

Now time for your celebrity tweets on the street. The Country Music Awards were last night, the big winner was 19-year-old Taylor Swift. She became the youngest winner of the Entertainer of the Year award. So what did the star do to celebrate? @taylorswift13 tweeted Just wrapped up a cereal party with my mom and dad at the kitchen table. What a night.

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If Britney Spears and Marilyn Manson collaborated, the outcome might look something like the hot twoppic of the moment: Lady Gaga’s new video for her single “Bad Romance.” In the video, Gaga gets kidnapped by supermodels who sell her to the Russian mafia. The video is chuck full of high-end fashion, overt sexuality, and little bit of the crazy . @oguzcanaytemiz tweets I just love the Bad Romance video even though it’s the craziest, weirdest, freakiest video I’ve ever seen!

Your hot twoppic of the day and week is Happy Veterans Day. Celebrations and parades are happening around the country to observe #Veterans Day. President Obama went to the National Burial Ground for War Heroes and placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns. Central Commander General David Petraeus gave thanks to soldiers stationed around the world.  And twitter has thousands of tweets thanking those who fought  and fight for this country. @eecue tweets want to wish a happy veterans day to my brothers, uncle and grandfather and all the others who have served our great country.

Now time for your celebrity tweets on the street. Comedic actress @ElizabethBanks tweeted a link to the charity Operation Homefront and said Thank vets and their families, check out Operation Homefront to adopt a military fam 4 the holidays @SenJohnMcCain tweets Happy Veterans Day to all of our brave men and women and to their families. You are the best of America!!

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Basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia, making him your hot twoppic of the moment.  But the Lakers legend said his  long-term prognosis is good. @AlvinNightline tweets thoughts, prayers, wishes for kareem abdul jabbar. if he battles cancer as well as he battled in the nba, he will win this fight too.

The hot twoppic of the day is Sesame Street. The iconic children’s show has been a trending topic all week on Twitter, in anticipation for its 40^th birthday. Tweets with links to favorite clips, fun facts, and memories of the show were all over Twitter Tuesday morning.   But no mid-life crisis here: the anniversary gets started off in style – First Lady Michelle Obama marks the occasion with a visit to Sesame street to show children how to plant their own vegetable gardens. @dannadeen tweets Sesame Street, 40 years going strong. I enjoyed watching it and now my kids. That is amazing!

Your hot twoppic of the week is the professional social networking site, LinkedIn.  Starting tonight, LinkedIn will integrate twitter, so you can sync your LinkedIn and Twitter accounts to broadcast LinkedIn status updates on twitter and vice versa. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone stated that the  use of twitter for businesses and professional gains is increasingly important, saying the persona you create for yourself on the web can function as part of your resume.

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Listen up Fantasy Football players – your hot twoppic of the moment is Larry Johnson. The running back was released by the Kansas City Chiefs, and many believe it was because of what he posted on his Twitter account. His posts belittled the Chiefs head coach, insulted a fan,  and used a gay slur. A petition of fans asking for the Chiefs to release Johnson before he broke the team’s rushing record got more than 32,000 signatures by this morning. @anthonystevens4 tweets Lesson Of The Day for Larry Johnson, Formerly of Chiefs. “Twitter can be hazardous to your Weath”.

Today is the 20^th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, making it your hot twoppic of the day. The wall fell on November 9, 1989 was the first step toward German reunification, which symbolized the end of the Cold War. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton joined leaders from around the World for the “Festival of Freedom”, which had over 1,000 foam domino tiles stacked along the former route of the wall. They were then toppled over.

For all the gamers out there, get ready. Your hot twoppic of the week is the highly anticipated video game: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The game is set five years in the future, where players try to track down a Russian terrorist. The game will be released at midnight. @ryan_isaacs tweets I’m about to fly into a nerd rage if midnight doesn’t get here soon.

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Sadly, the hot twoppic of the moment is about gun violence. Yesterday there was the massacre at Fort Hood, in Texas.  Then today, there was a shooting in an office building in Orlando, Fl, where at least 1 person has died and others were wounded. The question on most people’s minds is … why? @jimmydids tweets The land of the free where anyone can own a gun has 2 mass shootings in 2 days. Time for change? #Orlando #fort hood @Trina_Chavez5 tweets Are people going CRAZY or what? Now theres a shooting in Orlando?? We need to PRAY!!!!!!!

Hot twoppic of the day is the film Precious, which opens tonight. The Grand Jury winner at the Sundance film festival, Oscar buzz has been building for this movie for weeks. The film follows an obese Africa-American teenager as she endures many forms of abuse. Though Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry are executive producers, the film is far from a feel-good experience. But critics call it a must-see. Questo of the band The Roots @questlove tweets if you see nothing else. GO SEEPRECIOUS. Monique getting that Oscar is w/o QUESTION. see this film. it will FLOOR you.

The hot twoppic of the week belongs to the New York Yankees. The baseball champs celebrated in Manhattan with their victory parade, and Twitter was all over it, tweeting #yankeesparadeonfox and online cheering for their favorite players, especially A-Rod.

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The New York Yankees are the hot twoppic of the moment, after defeating the Philadelphia Phillies last night to take back the title of  World Series Champs. One trending topic in honor of the victory is the message KEEP THE WAVE GOING, referring, of course, to the baseball stadium wave.

The hot twoppic of the day goes to Google Dashboard, which launched today, and begs the question: how much do you know about your data on the web? Dashboard lets users view all data associated with Google products. Be warned: you will get a sobering look at just how much companies like Google know about you. The good news? You can control it.  Dashboard allows you to easily view and change your privacy settings.  So that 4am Google search for a 24-hour Krispy Kreme can be your little secret.

Your hot twoppic of the week is Rihanna. The young pop star’s first interview since her well-publicized beating by then-boyfriend Chris Brown aired this morning on Good Morning America. She candidly discussed her encounter with domestic violence, saying that she decided to ended her relationship when she realized the message going back would send to her young fans.

@TheAubreyShow tweets i’m so proud of Rihanna. i think if you’re in an abusive relationship, no matter how cute or how fine he is, find the strenght and LEAVE

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It’s rapper and Bad Boy Entertainment mogul P. Diddy’s 40th birthday. As a joke, famous personality and New York party promoter Chris Foxx, @foxxfiles tweeted TRENDING TOPIC TIME TWITTER!!!!!! In honor of Diddy’s birthday should we do #BlameDiddy or #StillsignedtoBadBoy . #BlameDiddy, caught on with fans tweeting jokes blaming Diddy for just about everything: from global warming to fashion choices. Fans tweeted it enough to make  it your hot twoppic of the moment.

Your hot twoppic of the day is the election results. Tuesday at the polls, the GOP scored big, winning the Virginia and New Jersey Governors’ races. But it is another election headline that set twitter off — Maine voters dealt a devastating blow to the gay rights movement, repealing a state law that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed.

@fairlight777 tweets My heart goes out to everyone in #Maine. We all deserve #equality. Our families are real. While @antisocialangel tweets Dear Maine, I could be mad that you banned gay marriage but I won’t. I will applaud you for the vote being so close.

Your hot twoppic of the week is Sesame Street – like P. Diddy, Big Bird and pals are gearing up to turn the big 4-0. November 10^th will be the official 40^th Anniversary of the show. Today the Google homepage pays homage, putting everyone’s favorite yellow feathered friend on the Google Doodle. Clicking on the picture takes you to a variety of links regarding the show’s anniversary.

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Over the Halloween weekend, the Michael Jackson concert documentary, “This Is It” was #1 at the box office and became the highest grossing concert movie of all time. It has already brought in over $101 million worldwide. Originally the film was billed as a two-week release, but today Sony announced “This Is it” will be in theaters through the Thanksgiving weekend. @JenVonDee tweets One more tweet….I saw This Is It yesterday…I now have soo much more respect for MJ…he really was the greatest EVER! Horror film “Paranormal Activity,” slipped to number 2 at the box office  – so far it has grossed $85 million, making movies the hot twoppic of the moment.
In the spirit of #MusicMonday (#MM), your hot twoppic of the day is #4yourentertainment, Adam Lambert’s debut single. It premiered on the radio waves on Friday, but starting today fans can buy the single off Lambert’s website. The album will be released on November 23^rd.Your hot twoppic of the week is #theworst, a Twitter meme that has people tweeting what they hate! But the trend likley originated from a poll by JSYK.com, an AOL pop culture blog for 9-15 year olds. After about 50,000 votes were tallied, the 2009 Worst Celeb Influence Award went to … Miley Cyrus, with 42% of the votes. Maybe dancing on a stripper pole at the Teen Choice Awards wasn’t the best idea….

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If you’re a pop music fan, get ready: today American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert world premièred his new song on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show. “For Your Entertainment” is the first single off his debut album, set to hit shelves November 23^rd. @adamlambert tweets Hope you’re gonna wanna blast it while you’re gettin ready for Halloween!! Then at the club!!! But wait, there’s more. Britney’s sexy song “3” has inspired an even sexier video, which premiered today. @Adrian88 tweets #britney3premiere Well Britney looks smokin hot in it. Hot outfits but where is the dancing? Britney come on! Good vid though. Pop music is your hot twoppic of the moment.

The hot twoppic of the day is Happy Halloween!! Although the holiday is offiicially tomorrow, twitter users are posting costume pictures and party ideas. Another idea for Halloween fun? See the runaway horror hit “Paranormal Activity.” The movie is still in the top trending topics on Twitter, and in the Halloween spirit of scaring yourself silly, it is expected to be #1 at the box office this weekend.

The hot twoppic of the week is Twitter Lists. We first told you about the new feature yesterday, and now Tweeps are starting to react . @CoCoChanele tweets I don’t have the patience to go through everyone I’m following and create lists. Seems too time consuming. Am I doing it wrong or something? But @sinndustries tweets Still messing with lists, it does make it easier to check out follower’s timelines.

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