2:04 pm, May 25th, 2012
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Pitbull is the latest celeb to get the “RIP” treatment on Twitter.
On Friday, “RIP Pitbull” became a worldwide trending topic on the social media site, fueling alarm and speculation that the singer had died.
He is NOT dead, though he killed it earlier on the “Today Show.”
The rumors are 100% false.
He is alive and well.
Seriously — this whole Twitter trend is just plain wrong.
While some argue “RIP” stands for “Really Impressive Person,” it’s still also a deceptively sick hoax.
On Thursday, there was a ghoulish prank that President Obama had died.
We find it bizarre that Twitter doesn’t allow certain terms to “trend” — and yet the “RIP [insert name]” phenomenon is allowed to persist.
It’s gross — and Twitter should really deal with this.
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