Courtney Love's history with Twitter is, like her history with everything, a rocky one. She vanished from the site in January after being sued for defamation by fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir over a tweet. You'd figure the fact that she paid out $430,000 to settle that lawsuit would have kept her off for good. 
 
 But it seems that Love's back on Twitter, now spewing nuggets of crazy under the handle cloverxxxlove. On Wednesday she announced her twitter rebirth with a storm of vicious tweets directed at Chelsea Handler. In fact her first tweet was "@chelseahandler i think you are a leathery idiot and rude. and beyond stupid." This makes sense, if you consider that Handler is now dating Courtney Love's ex, the hotelier Andre Balazs. 
 
 Since then, Cloverxxxlove has tweeted crazily at Carrie Fisher, Russell Crowe and a bunch of other celebrities. To Arianna Huffington she wrote: "its courtney, been years but am living in your old house, best fo luck… can i just ask? whats with the colours i feel like im living inside a peacock feather!" Indeed, Love moved into the West Village place previously occupied by Huffington and reportedly never turns off the lights. 
 
 It's possible this is a prank by someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of Courtney Love's life. But here is what Love just tweeted at Nikki Sixx: "Hey it's courtney im having atemporary lapse of hilarity, me and my friends are watching with complete disgust and horror at.. a total bourgoise "man of wealth and taste" bro-ing dow @chelseahandler aus with jello shots dribbling down to his pot belly." Sounds about right. 
 
 [Image via Getty] ||||| Mo-o-om! Such was the plaintive, tweeted cry of 22-year-old rapper Bow Wow, who begged his awkwardly @-tweeting, flirtatious mother to quit Twitter last night. But no, she refused to go, and the micro fight got ugly. 
 
 After Bow Wow's tweeted drunk driving incident on New Year's Eve, it was about time @bowwow614 got some adult supervision. So when Atlanta boutique owner and stage mom @MsTCaldwell joined, it seemed like a good idea: Nothing like a mother's tsk to make a wayward rapper clean up his act. But then, she actually said stuff. Embarrassing mom stuff. Like this: 
 
 
 
 
 
 And gross MILF stuff, like this*: 
 
 
 
 
 
 And then, the @-tweets. Humiliating @-tweets, as though @Ciara and @Nelly_MO were her friends instead of his. @SolangeKnowles, calling her "sweetie." @KimKardashian, asking for weight loss tips. @iamdiddy, @wyclef, @barondavis, @therealtaraji. It was all too much for Bow to bear. He began a campaign to expel his mother from Twitter. 
 
 But then—the horror!—his fans rallied around her instead of him: 
 
 
 
 
 
 Finally, he resorted to threats. 
 
 
 
 
 
 But Teresa Caldwell would not be muzzled. She smacked her son down the way only a mama can: with shame, and the Lord's name. 
 
 
 
 
 
 As fans rallied around Ms. Caldwell, Mr. Wow—chagrined, ashamed, emasculated—gave in. He deleted the anti-mom tweets from his account, and Teresa stayed to humiliate another day. 
 
 Moral of the story: Moms on Twitter will ruin your fun, and there's nothing you can do about it. This is the way trendy websites end: Not with a bang, but a mother. 
 
 Related: Lil' Bow Wow Drove His Lamborghini Drunk and Tweeted About It 
 
 * At the risk of proving myself a WTFreak: What the heck does "cnl" mean? Urban Dictionary offers nothing, and Google offers a bank, a communications firm, and a Russian evangelical TV channel, none of which sounds right. In lieu of evidence to the contrary, I'm going to assume it's an old-lady euphemism for something dirty. ||||| After leaving the platform in the face of racist trolls, Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones has returned to Twitter. 
 
 On Monday, Jones left the platform after a scores of users bombarded the Saturday Night Live star with hateful, racist messages. Jones fought back, retweeting and sharing those messages with her followers, but ultimately logged off the platform anyway. 
 
 Twitter responded by permanently banning Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos. Yiannopoulos didn't send the most vile messages himself, but he did create fake tweets that made it appear as if Jones herself was tweeting hateful statements. 
 
 Jones made her comeback on Thursday, tweeting "who else is gonna live tweet Game of Thrones!" 
 
 Welp...a bitch thought she could stay away. But who else is gonna live tweet Game of Thrones!! — Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 21, 2016 
 
 Thanks for the love and support I received! made me feel real special See you later on @sethmeyers #LoveForLeslieJ pic.twitter.com/1SOU5QnhMQ — Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 21, 2016 
 
 Twitter itself responded, welcoming Jones back. 
 
 Twitter still needs to address its harassment problem 
 
 In the wake of Yiannopoulos's ban, many of his supporters have accused Twitter of standing for censorship and against free speech. It puts the company, which used to call itself the "free speech wing of the free speech party" in a precarious position. 
 
 On the one hand, Twitter needs to foster an environment where users feel welcome to interact. On the other, it needs to tow the line between banning harassment and censoring dissenting thoughts. 
 
 The official WikiLeaks Twitter account raised pointed questions at Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Thursday, questioning why Yiannopoulos was banned and why it took a public figure like Jones to get action. 
 
 @wikileaks we don't ban people for expressing their thoughts. Targeted abuse & inciting abuse against people however, that's not allowed — Jack (@jack) July 21, 2016 
 
 @jack Who has access to justice? Many have had vastly worse. What's the appeal mechanism? What's the transparency of the process? — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 21, 2016 
 
 @jack Because it appears that a politically aligned famous American actress has access to ban-power that everyone else does not. — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 21, 2016 
 
 It's a valid question — and one I asked yesterday. Jack Dorsey and the team at Twitter have vowed to clamp down on harassment on the platform in the past. 
 
 It remains to be seen what the company will learn from Leslie Jones' brief respite from the platform. 
 
 Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments. ||||| If there's one thing we've learned from Twitter, it's that you never, ever want to upset Alec Baldwin. Now, NBC, the very network he appears on in 30 Rock, has incurred his wrath, and he's wasted no time in tweeting his revenge. Specifically, he's saying he's leaving NBC for good, which could be very, very bad news for fans of the only slightly less hot-headed Jack Donaghy. 
 
 The spat began this morning when NBC's Today Show "camped" outside his building. He thought they were trying to get an interview with him about his stalker, but it turns out they were just doing a live shot from outside. Anyway, he tweeted, "I haven't appeared on the Today Show in many years. But did they have to camp outside my apt?" And followed up with, "A story about stalking sure brings out the stalkers in the media. But, the Today Show?" Worse, he apparently didn't know they were coming, saying, "No one from NBC contacted me until the Today Show arrived at my apt." This led him to conclude with, "I think I'm leaving NBC just in time." Wait, noooo! We thought Alec was already confirmed for the next season of 30 Rock, but maybe we thought wrong. Or maybe this is one of his famous rash decisions that not even NBC knows about. We'll have to wait and see if he calms down and/or changes his mind, but for now the future looks very dull without Jack to dole out priceless life lessons like "Never go with a hippie to a second location." [Twitter] 
 
 The investigation into Whitney Houston's death has officially been closed, and no charges were filed against anyone. The tape of the 911 call from her hotel has also been released. It's pretty uneventful, just a hotel staff member saying there's a 46-year-old woman who's not breathing in one of their rooms. He did say, however, that he couldn't patch the 911 operator through to Whitney's room because the woman who'd called from there was "irate" and kept hanging up on it. Hmm. [E!, TMZ] 
 
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 Well, it's finally happened. Mr. Big is off the market. No, he did not marry Carrie Bradshaw, because she's not actually a real person. (Sorry to burst your bubble.) Instead, Chris Noth married his fiancée, Tara Wilson. They've got a four-year-old son together and have been engaged since 2009. [LA Timesp] 
 
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 Today may be a day that lives in infamy for all of your Harry Hunters out there. It seems Prince Harry is dating pop star Mollie King. She looks lovely, and they probably look lovely together. They are supposedly "head over heels" but let's wait a while until we're sure it's serious before we go into full meltdown mode, shall we? [Express] 
 
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 Oh my Goddd, you guyz. Ryan Gosling took a walk in New York City today, and he didn't save even a single person's life while he was out. LAZY. He must be having an off day. Anyway, he did have lunch with a friend, and from the looks of it they went to Westville, which is one of my personal favorite restaurants. So, at the very least, we know he's got excellent taste in food. [HuffPo] 
 
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– Celebrities have a very love-hate relationship with Twitter, evidenced by these stars rounded up by Perez Hilton. All of them have quit the social networking site—at least for a while. A sampling: Miley Cyrus quit Twitter in 2009, at the urging of her then-boyfriend Liam Hemsworth. She's back now. A feud with a fan site leaking her songs was enough to push Nicki Minaj off Twitter in 2012. She, too, is back. Alec Baldwin has quit Twitter a number of times. Most recently, he left after a controversial rant, and said he'd never return. His foundation is still on there, though. Mega-tweeter John Mayer briefly quit in 2010. Supposedly, his love of Twitter caused Jennifer Aniston to leave him. Not surprisingly, he's back. Haters and Internet trolls, sadly, drove Adele off Twitter, but she came back (or at least her official account did). Keira Knightley joined Twitter with a fake name, but only left the account open 12 hours. Chris Brown has quit Twitter more than once. But don't worry, his account is active at the moment. Click for the complete list of 15.