Celebrity Feuds? There's An App for That

It may lack the tawdry spectacle and palpable desperation of celebrity boxing, but Twitter, at least according to Monday’s Los Angeles Times, has become “the new go-to site” for famous people to trash other famous people.

Times entertainment writer Matea Gold reports:

First embraced by entertainers as a promotional platform, Twitter has evolved into a forum for candid and surprisingly crass postings by actors, singers and athletes. The intimate, instant and unvarnished nature of the microblogging site, which allows users to post public messages of 140 characters or less, is serving as a fertile incubator for the unchecked emotions of stars.

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