Lovers, fighters, stoners and other tweets of the week

These are the tweets that captured the tweek that t'was in news. Suggest tweets of the week to @TweekThatTwas

  1. Oh my god. Leon's is buying The Brick for $700 million. AND Selena Gomez and Justin Beiber broke up. This world is changing too damn fast.
  2. Monday

    It doesn't matter whether you've been naughty or nice, you still won't get the newest smartphone from Research in Motion in your stocking.
  3. Just in time for Christmas rush, RIM to launch BlackBerry 10 on Jan. 30
  4. Tuesday

    The Toronto Blue Jays made a massive player trade with the Florida Marlins, adding $41.25-million in salary and joining the league's top tier of World Series contenders.
  5. It's unfair for the Yankees and Red Sox to have to compete with a financial juggernaut like the Blue Jays
  6. Wednesday

    Hamas lobbed rockets at Israel. The Israel Defense Forces used a guided missile to assassinate the leader of the Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's military wing. Then the tweets were launched.
  7. We recommend that no Hamas operatives, whether low level or senior leaders, show their faces above ground in the days ahead.
  8. @idfspokesperson Our blessed hands will reach your leaders and soldiers wherever they are (You Opened Hell Gates on Yourselves)
  9. Thursday

    A Globe and Mail editorial criticized Assassin's Creed III as historically inaccurate, and then this happened on Twitter, causing #globeeditorial to trend to No. 2 in Canada. Here's a taste.
  10. Mario and Luigi are inaccurate and offensive portrayals of the Italian-American experience. Oh wait… #globeeditorial
  11. Friday

    Hostess Inc., the maker of the Twinkie, suspended its bakery operations, laid off most of its 18,500 workers and moved to sell off assets, none of which will help those with the munchies in the two U.S. states that voted earlier this month to legalize pot.
  12. The poor citizens of Washington and Colorado. Marijuana becomes legalized and then today... ...they stopped making the Twinkie.
  13. Saturday

    This is Canadian Georges St. Pierre after he won the the Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight title in Montreal. You should have seen the other guy, American Carlos Condit.

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