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The top 10 tweets of 2013

Twitter is just seven years old, yet it’s taken over our collective consciousness like dandelions on an untended lawn. The year in tweets brought us some Twitter-only phenomena: your “Sharknado’s”, your “Sound of Music Live’s”; any number of social media-perpetuated hoaxes (Diane in 7A, we hardly knew ye); and, of course, a never-ending stream of celebrity meltdowns and feuds. Out of the millions of tweets spewed out in 2013, here are our 10 favorites:

  1. 1. Rashida Jones “#stopactinglikewhores”

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    The “Parks and Recreation” star jumped into the controversy over twerking and breast-baring pop stars with a rant telling girls to class it up a bit. But she kept it funny with a follow-up calling on “all men to show me dat ass.”

  2. 2. Two Bills, one selfie

    A true sign that “selfie” was 2013’s word of the year, this tweet from Bill Clinton’s personal account showed that even the world’s most powerful can’t help but share their own self-portraits. This one also left Twitter wondering whether Clinton understood where the two people, one thing reference comes from.

  3. 3. BurlingtonCoatFactory makes #coats cool

    So many parody Twitter accounts scrape the bottom of the awful barrel (looking at you, @BilldeBleezy [https://twitter.com/BilldeBleezy]), but this fake Burlington Coat Factory account won us over for its sheer absurdity. You will never think of #coats in the same way again.

  4. 4. Amanda Bynes doesn’t understand what ugly means

    Easily the top pick for hottest Twitter mess of the year, former child star Amanda Bynes went fully off the rails in 2013, tweeting such gems as “I want Drake to murder my vagina” in between throwing bongs out of windows. But this one perhaps most represents her psychosis, when she somehow decided to lash out at the most attractive first couple in recent history with an attempt at ugly shaming, which is even funnier coming from someone with pierced cheeks.

    https://twitter.com/amandabynes/status/348853637512040450

  5. 5. Rob Delaney continues his Twitter domination

    The funniest man on Twitter had a banner year, releasing his hilarious book about alcoholism, family and personal struggle, and continuing to kill it with the tweets. This one, which came in the wake of scandals involving horse meat found in food at Ikea and elsewhere, shows what kind of man he really is.

  6. 6. Miley vs. Sinead

     The twerking girl with an apparently unretractable tongue mostly kept her drama off Twitter. But she couldn’t resist responding to Sinead O’Connor’s open letter directed at her with this screenshot, comparing the pope-ripping crooner to the bong-throwing Bynes. 

  7. 7. Patrick Stewart gets in hot water

     You could easily put all of Patrick Stewart’s Twitter feed on this list: To promote his run in “Waiting for Godot” and “No Man’s Land” at the Cort Theatre, he’s been traveling the city with co-star Ian McKellen and sharing photos of the dear, adorable friends with Elmo in Times Square, eating Nathan’s in Coney Island and jogging over the Brooklyn Bridge. But this photo from Halloween is one of his finest. Stewart explained on “The Daily Show” that while actors usually think Halloween is for amateurs, his wife bought this costume online and got him to pose in it.

  8. 8. Ronan Farrow perfectly responds to paternity rumors

    Mia Farrow dropped a bombshell in October when she said that her son Ronan may have been fathered by Frank Sinatra, not Woody Allen. Ronan’s reaction came in the form of this perfect tweet.

     

  9. 9. Geraldo’s latest exposé

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    The Fox News host learned the No. 1 lesson of Twitter: Never tweet while drunk. He sent out this shirtless pic boasting his bod over the summer, but later deleted it. He later admitted it was sent while he was “drunk and lonely.”

     

  10. 10. Oreo slam dunks the Super Bowl blackout

    When the lights went out at the Super Bowl, Oreo’s official Twitter account banged out this tweet at 8:48 p.m., just minutes after the Superdome went dark. The fast-acting marketing move didn’t exactly have a groundbreaking message (You can still eat cookies in the dark? Did anyone doubt this?), but it went viral, showing how branding is reshaping itself in the era of instant social media.