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Viber's new Public Chats sound a lot like Twitter
When we talk about online messaging, there's often a disconnect between mobile messaging services like WhatsApp and social media platforms like Twitter. Which is odd, because when you think about it, they're two halves of the same send-short-messages-to-each-other coin. It's a concept that's clearly troubled the folks over at Viber, to the point where it's adding something called Public Chats to its system. In essence, Public Chats are discussions between "personalities" that Viber's users can follow, in the same way you'd watch celebs shooting the breeze on Twitter. In order to kickstart the process, the company has hired a clutch of warm bodies that include Perez Hilton, Tyler Oakley and, erm, Copa90, a European football channel on YouTube. Unfortunately, there's no way to sneak behind the velvet rope and tell Tyler Oakley what you think of him, since all Viber is offering is a "fly-on-the-wall experience."
EA hosts Battlefield: Bad Company 2 celebrity benefit tournament
As reported on these very pages yesterday, EA and DICE got a group of semi-celebrities together last night to celebrate the impending arrival of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 with a charity tournament, pitting NFL stars and 90210 actors against each other in a bragging rights team match. The celebs also selected their own team names for an upcoming Major League Gaming tournament, and the winning team in that match (which you can predict right now on GameStop's website) will end up giving $25,000 to the winning celebrity's charity of choice. The event kicked off with a red carpet event, and Matt Lanter and Tristan Wilds of the new 90210 joined gossip blogger Perez Hilton to talk about crushes on their costars and how awesome Bad Company 2 was. Meanwhile, we wondered, where's the actual game? %Gallery-86003%
