Why does Twitter exist, you ask? So that we can get instantaneous access to awesome breaking news. Like the fact that Elizabeth Banks has officially confirmed that she'll star in "The Hunger Games" as Effie Trinket, for instance. May the odds be ever in her favor!
Even as "Hunger Games" ramps up, the "Harry Potter" movies start winding down — but not without releasing one heck of an epic trailer for "Deathly Hallows Part 2," and Twitter users across the world fell head over heels with the new movie.
I'm @TravisHelwig, and this is Twitter-Wood for April 28, 2011.
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The cast of "Community" kept their tweet feeds lively last night with a few behind-the-scenes shots from their Halloween episode. It butted heads schedule-wise with Game 2 of the World Series, though, where 
People across America experienced 
Star Wars was on a lot of minds in Twitter-Wood today for some reason. 
U.S. President Barack Obama turned some heads in Los Angeles yesterday by paying a visit to a fundraiser and impacting traffic in the city. Tweets on the matter trended fiercely, and 
Bankruptcy rumors about Blockbuster were not met with sympathy from one filmmaker in the 
Scott Brown's win in the race for Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts drew varying reactions in Twitter-Wood today. 
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