Communications Major

NBC's Christin Cooper drilled Bode Miller with three questions that seemed like they were trying to make him break down on camera after his medal-winning run at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. And the online response from those watching at home was swift. In true champion fashion (and maybe a little help from a social media consultant), Miller tweeted a classy response to the interview awkwardness several hours later. 

Leave it to Jodie Foster, the venerable 50-year-old star with the 47-year career, to unbalance the Twitterverse in a way the social network has not quite experienced yet.

Sure, the hijinks and hoo-has of thousands of public figures have lit up Twitter, the online stream-of-consciousness of social media about once a week over the past half decade. But Foster kicked things up a notch with a rambling, off-kilter, pop culty, coming out speech at last Sunday night's Golden Globe awards that made for an instant tweet-up.

Foster, who was being honored with a lifetime achievement award, took the opportunity to touch on topics that are obviously near and dear to her - her need for privacy and her need to confirm an aspect of her private life that has long been, in pre-social media parlance, an "open secret."

Two-screen or second-screen viewing is a 21st century experience. If you own a mobile device (or really like to sit with your laptop on your actual lap), you have no doubt engaged in the practice during major television events. The Super Bowl is the ultimate in major TV events. And social media - Twitter in particular -  serves to underscore that.

If it was anyone's night this past Sunday, it was Jodie Foster's. The speech the legendary actress gave while accepting the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award brought her name to the top of the hashtag list. Confessing that she was "single," Foster then said she came out a "thousand years ago" and thanked her two sons, former partner and mother. Most fan reaction that followed included words like "inspiration," "strong" and "respect." Other hot topics on Twitter at the Globes included Amy Poehler and and Tina Fey as hosts, Lena Dunham's Chad Lowe shout-out, Tommy Lee Jones sourpuss and more!