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Happy Tuesday! Today (Sept. 3), kids went off/back to school, some famous people went off the market, the 'American Idol' lineup was confirmed, James Franco was roasted and swimmer Diana Nyad was the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. Basically, history was made.

Today's (Aug. 26) hot button Twitter topic is about one thing and one thing only, last night's Video Music Awards on MTV -- in which Miley Cyrus twerked onstage and twerked on Robin Thicke, and everyone was begging Billy Ray Cyrus for some help. Something tells us it won't do any good.

Last night, Warner Bros. confirmed that Ben Affleck would be playing Batman in the upcoming 'Man of Steel' sequel, and it seems like the Internet lost it.

Wow, people are upset that Ben Affleck is going to be the next Batman. Like, really upset. It's almost like this somehow simultaneously affects them personally (it doesn't), and they have nothing else in their lives to worry about (we're jealous). They may be upset about it, but at least some folks have a sense of humor about it. Here are some choice tweets on the subject.

Who's excited for 'Your Next'?? Wait, what? It's called 'You're Next'? As in, "you are the next one to be murdered by the scary mask wearing people"? Oh, that makes much more sense than 'Your Next' which is just confusing. Your next what exactly? We have no idea. And neither does literally everyone on Twitter, who are tweeting about some movie called 'Your Next.' See what we mean below.

It's August 6, and the celebrities of the world are spending their time on Twitter conversing with one another, posting cute pictures of animals and honoring the late George Duke. Which, all things considered, is a pretty busy day (in 140 characters or less).

This weekend, an inside joke between Lupe Fiasco and Childish Gambino (a.k.a. Donald Glover) spilled all over Twitter.

Geraldo Rivera has been married five times, so he seemed intent on showing just what these women find so irresistible.

The George Zimmerman case obviously had a lot of people talking, but the words of one teenager landed him in jail.

Alec Baldwin has issues with telecommunication. First there was the Words With Friends debacle on the plane, and now he's facing the fallout of his wife allegedly tweeting during James Gandolfini's funeral ... and of his subsequent Twitter rant following the accusations. His solution? He and Twitter are never getting back together. Like, ever.

Comedian Nathan Fielder is making good use of his power on Twitter. He's been coming up with a number of pranks for people to play on their parents/friends and having them send him the often-hilarious results. This time he told his legion of followers to text their parents asking if it's illegal not to tell somebody you gave them an STD and say they were asking for a friend. These are the results.

It was one thing to see some of the footage and then the aftermath of the tragic attack on a British soldier -- he was beheaded -- on May 22. It's another to actually witness it then share the gory details with the world, but that's what up-and-coming U.K. rapper Boya Dee did.