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The 18-year-old rebellious soccer player Neymar Jr. had been punished by the coach of Santos FC, and the coach was fired as a result. Manchester United and Liverpool also had their share of tweets.

2) Twitter

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A Twitter security flaw affected thousands of users as maliciously tweeted javascript could cause a person to execute commands just by clicking their mouse over a link on Twitter.com.

3) NFL

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Football is in full swing. Michael Vick returned to the NFL, starting in his first game since his dog-fighting arrest.

4) RBD

5) Brazilian VMAs

The Brazilian VMAs aired and were hosted by Roberto Justus. The most discussed trend was how every time the Brazilian "happy rock" band Restart was awarded a category on the MTV Video Music Brazil awards, they were booed from the audience.

6) Justin Bieber

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Bieber continues his reign on the Twitter charts after winning the Brazilian VMA for "Best International Video." Brazilian fans showed their love.

7) Bishop Eddie Long

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Prominent church leader Eddie Long was accused on Tuesday of coercing two of his male members into having sex when they were teens. A total of four men have come forward.

8) Harry Potter

A trailer for the upcoming "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" has been released.

9) Yom Kippur

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Yom Kippur is a sacred day for Jews; it's the Day of Atonement. Jews fast in order to purify themselves and be written in the Book Of Life for the next (Jewish) year. The holiday began Friday, Sept. 17, 2010, at sundown.

10) Gossip Girl (TV Show)

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"Gossip Girl" character Chuck Bass returned as part of the fourth season. He survived a shooting at the end of season three.

LOS ANGELES (CBS) A recent report from the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse, or CADNA, a watchdog agency monitoring our online identities, found that only 32 percent of senators and only 22 percent of representatives own their own full names as web domains. According to CADNA President Josh Bourne, that's a surprising number considering how online outreach has become just as critical as offline engagement in the political race.

The report also revealed certain candidates, whose sites had been snagged by their opponents. For instance, if you type BobMenendez.org you're taken to a page owned and operated by Sharon Angle's campaign aimed to give her opponent, Sen. Harry Reid a "September to Remember". While Hillary Clinton did sue to get her domain back in 2005, the act of cybersquatting or sitting on a site in bad faith or to profit in the future is not illegal.

In a segment for Washington Unplugged, I spoke to two candidates who have both been affected by the domain name game. Libertarian, Jim Prindle running for U.S. Congress in Texas bought a bunch of sites around a year ago, including his opponents Sen. Ralph Hall. RalphHall.org now leads to Prindle's site, which he says aims to "maximize the exposure... is ethical and of course legal and within our first amendment rights."

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Just as "American Idol" finally announced its much-awaited panel, a YouTube "Idol video goes viral...

If you're a fan of the show, you'll love this American Idol Interactive Experience created by The Fine Brothers. It was posted only Tuesday afternoon and already it has over 200,000 views. "The whole 'who will be the judges' craziness that's been happening in the news made us hunker down and figure out how to make an 'Idol' judging game, but wanted to move the needle further," The Fine Brothers told me. "At the end of the first video you are promoted to choose between 6 celebrity judges. After selecting one you are brought to another video that knows which you selected first. You then pick a second judge of the remaining 5, which brings you to another video that knows which 2 you selected, after picking a third judge, the video of them together plays. You can then go back and mix and match, there are 20 combinations in total."

See the video below.

The internationally bestselling book "Freakonomics" by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt is set to hit the big screen on October 1.

Fans, however, can see the film in theaters tonight in 10 select cities across the country and take part in Dubner and Levitt's latest human experiment tonight. Just go to MovieTickets.com and pay what you want for your ticket.

The data will then be collected anonymously at the time of purchase and will be analyzed the authors to identify what factors and circumstances prompt movie-goers to pay more or less. The experiment was inspired from the book itself, in which they analyzed how people interact with a weekly, pay-what-you-want bagel delivery service.

LOS ANGELES (CBS) -- Watch my video wrap-up of the top viral videos of the week below or simply scroll down to read about my picks. Yep, there's something for everyone.

1) Amid headlines of the Rev. Terry Jones threatening to burn the Quran in Florida, another Christian activist, David Grisham of Amarillo, Texas, was also planning a public burning. Until Jacob Isom stepped in to save the day.

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1) MTV VMA's

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