Communications Major

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."

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.