Michael Rapaport is a free man on Twitter again — mouth included.
“Atypical” star Rapaport went on another one of his trademark vents on Wednesday, after spending what he characterized as “seven days in Twitter jail.”
“I’m back F===o’s. @Twitter you tried to break me,but I can do 7 Days in Twitter jail standing up on my head. #disruptivebehavior,” the actor/podcaster/author wrote.
In an accompanying video, Rapaport said that he had just come off of a seven-day Twitter suspension, suggesting that it was because he had criticized a Fox News personality.
“I’m back! I’m f—ing back! I just did seven days in the can, seven days of suspension on Twitter, but I’m back, f—os! Oh, yeah; I learned my lesson — if you can’t do the crime, don’t do the f—ing crime. You can look up all sorts of porno, all sorts of violence on Twitter, OK, but if you insult a Fox News reporter, you’re f—ed,” Rapaport said.
“That’s right; Twitter is a playground of debauchery. There’s a lot of fantastic, positive things also … but if you talk out of turn to a Fox News reporter, you’re gonna do some f—in’ time in the hole,” the actor continued.
Rapaport didn’t elaborate on the specific transgression that earned him the time-out. However, last week, Rapaport went in on Fox’s Laura Ingraham, after she said that NBA player LeBron James should avoid talking politics, saying that James and fellow basketball star Kevin Durant should “shut up and dribble.”
In a video posted on Instagram Sunday, Rapaport warned his followers, “I’m apologizing in advance. I know this is going to offend some women but I have to do it.” And he proceeded to cuss out Ingraham, saying, “Your Lord and Savior Donald Trump wouldn’t even grab you by the p—y”… among many other crude insults.
“But I’m a new man, oh yeah, I’m a new f—in’ man — I learned my lesson, you fucking broke me. You f—ing broke me, seven days without my f—ing Twitter,” Rapaport continued in Wednesday’s video. “But I’m back, the champ is back, and I ain’t going anywhere now.”
10 Celebs Who Follow Way Too Many People on Twitter (Photos)
Even for the most Twitter-obsessed of us, we've all been through those spring cleaning periods where we decide to tidy up our followers. But a handful of celebrities have no qualms when it comes to following people en masse. So how many is too many? We know it when we see it. If you're on Twitter with even semi-regularity, it's likely that these people will follow you back, or maybe they already do.
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Melissa Joan Hart - @MelissaJoanHart - 192K Following, 721K Followers
Melissa Joan Hart is a massive Alabama football fan, and if you want a follow, you might consider showing your support for the team. Or better yet, commit to be a player there.
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Anthony Scaramucci - @scaramucci - 304K Following, 862K Followers
Anthony Scaramucci follows nearly one third of those who follow him, including TheWrap and many of its staffers. It's not just journalists he follows in that 300,000 either.
Katy Perry still has the edge over Bieber in total followers, but then she follows just more than 200 people compared to Justin's 316,000. Still, it's a small fraction of the millions who've followed him back.
Britney might need to step up her following game, because in 2017 she fell out of the Top 10 most-followed people on Twitter, behind Kim Kardashian West.
You may think Soledad O'Brien is following way too many people to notice, but believe it or not, she's payingattention.
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Barack Obama - @BarackObama - 625K Following, 100M Followers
Obama is the third most followed person on Twitter. He's been criticized in the past for who he follows, but that hasn't stopped him from adding more to his stable.
Taye Diggs may be the first famous example of an over-follower. After his immense number of follows became an Internet mystery in 2014, he explained he hired a "social network dude" who followed people for him and used Twitter as a news "ticker" rather than just to disseminate information. And that ticker keeps getting more dense.
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Yoko Ono - @yokoono - 932K Following, 5.04M Followers
Back in 2011, Yoko Ono held the record for following the most people on Twitter, even surpassing President Obama.
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Jose Bautista - @JoeyBats19- 988K Following, 1.27M Followers
The king of bat flips is also one of the kings of Twitter. The Toronto Blue Jays player tweeted that he'll follow anyone who gives him a retweet or talks about baseball and raises awareness of the game.
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Lil B THE BASEDGOD - @LILBTHEBASEDGOD - 1.69M Following, 1.54M Followers
More so than the rapper himself, it's Lil B's alter ego The BasedGod that has cultivated a network of memes and emojis that have made him Internet royalty, and the rapper has returned the favor to all his followers and then some.
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How many is too many? Just ask Anthony Scaramucci, Taye Diggs and Yoko Ono
Even for the most Twitter-obsessed of us, we've all been through those spring cleaning periods where we decide to tidy up our followers. But a handful of celebrities have no qualms when it comes to following people en masse. So how many is too many? We know it when we see it. If you're on Twitter with even semi-regularity, it's likely that these people will follow you back, or maybe they already do.