# Never heard of Mike Epps, but his getting publicly busted by his wife on Twitter is HI-larious **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 18, 2015, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217 "2015-08-18T22:04:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217/61 "2015-08-19T23:19:11Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Clearly, you have. It’s spelled “OMG”. I actually considered using it. But I thought I would come across as a poseur. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217/62 "2015-08-20T00:02:55Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > The zip format can, if I remember correctly, usually compress English to about 1/8th its original length. So if you take your statement and compress it, then use base-64 encoding to convert it into something that can be posted on Twitter (causing it to expand by 1/3rd). > > If my math is correct, that means that you could actually post 840 characters to Twitter on average, if you and your friends are getting down and nerdy. > [@Munch](#): > > Look at this thread - many posts are under 140 characters. People can also compose a longer post in Notes, take a pic, and post that. Or they can post multiple tweets. > > See? Three sentences, 137 characters. Not when you add in the quotes. If I understand what **Sage Rat** is saying, you can link your tweet to an embedded file, right? (Or am I misunderstanding what a zip file is?). But then the person you’re talking to has to open that file. To me, that hampers the flow of the conversation. One of the features I most enjoy about the SDMB is the ability to multi-quote, and break quotes up to respond to separate points - I think it fosters a more coherent conversation. Making multiple tweets also sounds awkward - I use a lot of ellipses, dashes and semicolons when I post, specifically to imitate the rhythm of speech. Having posts broken up by character limit throws a monkey wrench in that. I’m not get-off-my-lawn-you-whippersnappers!-ing here, or saying “I don’t like it, therefore it sucks”. I don’t doubt that Twitter serves its users well. Hell, it’s the only social media an old college friend uses, and I perforce have a Twitter account just to keep in touch with her. But I myself find it to be, as I said, confusing and hard to use. Maybe the interface triggers my ADD; or maybe I’m not just very good at adapting to new media. There’s a reason I chose the SDMB username I did. > [@Loach](#): > > I’m 48 and white and I have certainly heard of Mike Epps and had no problem following. It seemed extremely linear to me. How old are you? 😃 1. Perhaps I should have said “too unhip to have heard of him”. I assumed he was a rapper. (Although now I think about it, “Mike Epps” isn’t really a hip-hop name…) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217/63 "2015-08-20T00:41:48Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I don’t even use Twitter and I followed it just fine. I followed it fine, too. But backwards, and in Sanskrit. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217/64 "2015-08-20T02:39:53Z")
I followed it, but I completely missed that his wife joined the conversation. I just assumed that the “news” agency was reading into things. I guess I’ll have to look again. I do follow some people on twitter. Mostly authors whose works I want to keep abreast off. I think I’ve tweeted once and managed to gain a sympathy following of 3. No idea why. Good manners I think. Some people follow you if you follow them. I don’t think anyone needs twitter to stay current. It’s extremely hard to pull information out of it, unless you’re using it for specific things like I am. No need to worry about being old. although why they’re remaking Uncle Buck…? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217/65 "2015-08-20T05:02:21Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Not when you add in the quotes. If I understand what **Sage Rat** is saying, you can link your tweet to an embedded file, right? (Or am I misunderstanding what a zip file is?). There are no zip files involved. **Sage Rat** was joking. You can quote a 140 character tweet (this is called a retweet, or an RT) and add a 140 character response of your own. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217/66 "2015-08-20T05:38:22Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > What’s something in twitter that I am missing out on if I follow politics, music, cinema or television? Twitter is like if you took the top journalists, experts, and stars in all these areas and made them join the SDMB. They tend to get into discussions with each other that are interesting in their own right, but you can also reply and they (as long as they are not truly a mega-celebrity) may very well converse back with you! As an example, I will often see a New York Times op-ed that gets hundreds or thousands of comments on the NYT site, and view those commenters as kind of being suckers who are directing their energy in a much less efficient manner than they could on Twitter. If I find such a piece thought-provoking, I will look up the writer on Twitter and reply to the tweet in which they linked to that op-ed. Very often (as in, a majority of the time, I’d say) _the author replies back_ and we engage on the topic. So anyone who enjoys chewing the fat here, I just don’t understand why they would turn their nose up at this opportunity, which never existed in the past. (That said, I do also like being able to hold forth at more extended length, which is why I still like the SDMB, and IMDB message boards, Previously TV, etc.) > [@Munch](#): > > It’s all a matter of degrees. How closely do you want to follow politics? And from what particular angle do you want to do so, or wish you could more thoroughly? There are likely a number of people you could follow on Twitter that would make that easier - from politicians themselves, to individual analysts, to campaign machines, journalists, etc. Yes - you could go individually to [538.com](http://538.com) to see what Nate Silver is up to, then to WaPo’s website to check out the columnists, or Drudge to see what the right’s take on something is, then check umpteen different candidates’ websites to see what they’re up to, [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) for highlights, etc. It’s news aggregation for your particularly tailored interests. > > Absolutely not - there is always someone straying off on tangents and filling your feed up with noise, and it does get annoying. When that happens, I’ve started to become a lot more trigger-happy on the unfollow button - there’s always someone else out there providing tighter content on a similar topic to divert my minutes to. Great points, but on the last one there is a lot you can do that is much more fine-tuned than follow/unfollow. My main feed is a completely unreadable mess. But I have a bunch of lists like “Favorite political pundits”, “TV critics”, “VIPs”, “Close Friends”, etc. When I click one of those, I get a finely tuned stream of the good stuff that I am seeking at that moment. (And if anyone starts to present more signal than noise, they will get dumped from the list, similar to your point about unfollowing.) > [@Procrustus](#): > > I have a friend that shares my keen interest in politics and has a similar world view. He often sends me what I think are twitter links to something, but I have to ask him to please just summarize or quote what he thinks is so interesting. I have nothing against youtube, facebook or twitter\*, but I just don’t access those sites. I don’t even have apps for those things. You don’t need apps, just a regular browser. I’m going to post a couple links and offer the friendly suggestion you try clicking them. They won’t break your computer, and there won’t be any of those annoying pop-up ads. I enjoy listing my favorite movies on Twitter, and reviewing them. The latter is an especially interesting challenge, as I do the entire review (including the title) in 140 characters. So here, as a recent example, is a pair of tweets on the movie _Office Space_. The first link is to a tweet that includes an image of the movie’s poster and two other stills from the film, plus information on the top-billed cast, director, etc.: > The second is my review, text only: > I would really suggest to anyone that even if you don’t care to say things on Twitter yourself or even make an account there, it is an open site where you can find really good content (including, for those scoffing at the 140-character limit, many links to great articles) just by searching for it. I would add that I kind of think you are being unfair to your friend to ask them to take the time to summarize and quote when you could just click the links they send. I have a good friend who refuses to use Facebook and will sometimes email to say “haven’t heard from you lately…what have you been up to, send me pics of the kids” etc. I find it frustrating, because if he just used Facebook he could stay connected to me there. He is taking his anti-Facebook attitude and making it my problem by asking me essentially to do a bunch of separate status updates just for him. > [@faithfool](#): > > Wow. Then you’ve literally missed out on the “I’m too cool (or hip or a happy Luddite) for faceplace / hate twatting / instawho!?” threads. Aren’t you the lucky one? Apparently! I had no idea there was so much “get off my lawn” around here. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217/67 "2015-08-20T05:55:28Z")
The term “DM” is what threw me also. I’ve always said “PM” (private message). I understand the Twitter format, just not that term. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217/68 "2015-08-20T06:21:13Z")
“hey” _laughing my ass off_: “hello” ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217/69 "2015-08-20T06:37:35Z")
Getting back to the original subject, I think [this](https://twitter.com/KanyeHasAnStd/status/633595224510603265/photo/1) is my favorite picture meme in response (click on the woman’s face to see the whole image). I know, this is not of earth-shattering importance, but it is funny and allows people to show their creativity in a way I can only tip my hat to. Those who don’t use Twitter may not know what “mentions” are; Twitter has a handy [definition](https://media.twitter.com/best-practice/what-are-replies-and-mentions) to help out. CNN has a [more conventionally journalistic account](http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/19/entertainment/mike-epps-wife-twitter-feat/index.html?eref=rss_latest) of the “scandal”, with the additional information that supposedly it was all a mixup: it was Epps’s \*nephew \*doing the flirting! (Okay…sure.) The [International Business Times](http://www.ibtimes.com/who-mike-epps-wife-actress-mechelle-catches-husband-flirting-twitter-2058062) is also on it, with some background on Mechelle Epps as well as some context about other celebrities who have run into similar trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217/70 "2015-08-20T13:39:10Z")
Is it cute or funny to have your wife shut down your communications like you are a wayward two year old? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217/71 "2015-08-20T13:43:15Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Is it cute or funny to have your wife shut down your communications like you are a wayward two year old? Maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217/72 "2015-08-20T14:30:19Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Is it cute or funny to have your wife shut down your communications like you are a wayward two year old? Shutting down me? No. Some other wife shutting down her celebrity hound dog husband? Yep! “A man who can’t control his woman is funny.” - _Moonstruck_ ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217/73 "2015-08-20T15:51:10Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > I dunno, I’d say that given the subject matter and its weight, the way in which it was reported was perfectly appropriate. Zorro snap!!! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/rmL5s3k9o9U/hqdefault.jpg "Comedy Skit - Men on Books") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmL5s3k9o9U&t=189) > [@Anaamika](#): > > Is it cute or funny to have your wife shut down your communications like you are a wayward two year old? Yes. It’s absolutely hilarious. Like the guys standing around the barbecue talking trash and suddenly one of their wives says through the open screen window “I _HEARD_ that!” It’s falling down funny! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217/74 "2015-08-21T04:21:34Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Shutting down me? No. Some other wife shutting down her celebrity hound dog husband? Yep! Yes, this, exactly. Part of my amusement is that I don’t believe humans are hardwired for monogamy, but we have such a strong cultural norm around it that our biology and culture are constantly at war, and the chaos that ensues amuses me. (My wife and I have a “don’t ask, don’t tell, be safe and discreet” agreement, so I’m observing all this from a place of detachment in a sense.) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217/75 "2015-08-21T11:00:28Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Is it cute or funny to have your wife shut down your communications like you are a wayward two year old? Well, John Candy was a pretty funny guy, so if that’s what _Uncle Buck_ was about…maybe? Seriously, who is Mike Epps? Is he a baseball player or something? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217/76 "2015-08-21T11:04:45Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Shutting down me? No. Some other wife shutting down her celebrity hound dog husband? Yep! > > “A man who can’t control his woman is funny.” - _Moonstruck_ That was the moment I knew Danny Aiello was not the right guy for Cher. I _hated_ that line. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217/77 "2015-08-21T11:46:11Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Well, John Candy was a pretty funny guy, so if that’s what _Uncle Buck_ was about…maybe? > > Seriously, who is Mike Epps? Is he a baseball player or something? It’s been mentioned in this thread already. He is a stand up comic and actor. He’s been in movies for about 20 years. He first became known for the Friday movies with Ice Cube but he’s been in a lot of other things including all of the Hangover movies. He’s not a huge star but pretty well known and been around a while. If the Richard Pryor biopic happens that he is cast in he may become a big star because the people attached to it make it look like potential Oscar bait. ETA: Uncle Buck is a reboot of the movie that is apparently going to be a series on ABC this fall and he is the lead. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217/78 "2015-08-21T13:58:13Z")
> [@Omega\_Glory](#): > > He blocked her. > > I’m surprised that so many people had that much trouble with this. It’s a thread, you can google the abbreviations, and it’s not like no one ever posts reaction pictures or gifs here. The only graphic things we get to see are smilies unless we click on a link, which is too inconvenient and usually not worth doing. Google the abbreviations? Let’s see… for AW, I get [ul] [li]an ad for AW, a manufacturer of automatic transmissions[/li][li]the wiktionary definition, as in “Aw, that’s too bad”[/li][li]same for three other dictionaries[/li][li]a link for a video titled “COD:AW Hacker goes 98-0. I start following him at the 4 …” I have no idea what this means.[/li][li]ad for A&W restaurants[/li][li]Urban Dictionary says it means “Attention Whore”[/li][li]link to American Whitewater[/li][/ul] and that’s just the first page. None of these seem to be relevant or helpful to understanding that twitter crapola. I hate the Twitter culture because of this and will never take it up. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217/79 "2015-08-21T14:30:05Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > The only graphic things we get to see are smilies unless we click on a link, which is too inconvenient and usually not worth doing. > > Google the abbreviations? Let’s see… for AW, I get > > [ul] > [li]an ad for AW, a manufacturer of automatic transmissions[/li][li]the wiktionary definition, as in “Aw, that’s too bad”[/li][li]same for three other dictionaries[/li][li]a link for a video titled “COD:AW Hacker goes 98-0. I start following him at the 4 …” I have no idea what this means.[/li][li]ad for A&W restaurants[/li][li]Urban Dictionary says it means “Attention Whore”[/li][li]link to American Whitewater[/li][/ul] > > and that’s just the first page. None of these seem to be relevant or helpful to understanding that twitter crapola. > > I hate the Twitter culture because of this and will never take it up. I hope this is a whoosh. You might want to go back to the post and read it again. I abbreviated attractive woman as AW because I didn’t know her real name and I didn’t feel like typing “attractive woman” over and over. It’s not a Twitter thing. I did it in that post and explained it the way abbreviations often are by first typing out the full term with the abbreviation in parentheses. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217/80 "2015-08-21T14:59:07Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I hope this is a whoosh. > > You might want to go back to the post and read it again. I abbreviated attractive woman as AW because I didn’t know her real name and I didn’t feel like typing “attractive woman” over and over. It’s not a Twitter thing. I did it in that post and explained it the way abbreviations often are by first typing out the full term with the abbreviation in parentheses. The “attention whore” result fits here, too. (For clarity, in reference to her, not you.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-heard-of-mike-epps-but-his-getting-publicly-busted-by-his-wife-on-twitter-is-hi-larious/728217.md?page=5)