​We have all been there. You may have had a few drinks, you are at your favorite band's show, and you come to find yourself in the vicinity of one of your heroes. Word vomit. Torrential word vomit. But you mean well.

"I really think youse guys is great and your albums really means a lots to me all the time," you stammer before giving an awkward hug and spending too much on merch and cursing yourself on the way home.

We have met plenty of our heroes and strike out swinging. There was the time our digital camera crapped out when we met Iggy Pop in Austin and we made one of the legends of awesomeness wait for it to fix itself. How can we forget the time that country star Sara Evans asked to specifically to not sit next to us on a flight. Was it the Misfits shirt and the Hell's Angels bio?

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​Most of us would be happy to have 1,000 Twitter followers. A million is pretty much unattainable, even for some big enchiladas.

Yet we see celebs erasing their Twitter pages as if it isn't the best thing since some 5'3" guy in Iowa took a knife to a loaf of bread. What's driving the Twitter exodus? Here's Rocks Off's Top 5 celebrity Twitter quitters, their motivation for ditching the popular social-networking site, and their final tweets (for now).

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​For the past few days on Twitter, Rocks Off has been imploring our followers, our precious 3,250 friends (and counting), to tell us their shameful musical secrets by using the hashtag #shamefulafternoonsecrets or #shamefulmorningsecrets, the latter which could sound like a sordid booty call highlight reel.

We added our own secrets to the mix to get the ball rolling, like dropping that we make a personal funeral playlist once a year, and that we like Metallica's "Whiskey In The Jar" from Garage Inc. just slightly more than Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak original. Or another nugget about how we are fans of the production on the Bee Gees' disco work.

It's a fun way to pass the time, and plus adding a goofy Twitter hashtag means you won't be held accountable for what you owned up to, at least not in real life. While we were putting this together we were jamming the Rolling Stones' Voodoo Lounge, too. It's no Emotional Rescue, but it will have to suffice.

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​Last night, this member of Rocks Off was sitting at a pizza parlor off Ella when he found out that our military killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. It was a monumental moment in time, as we sat back and looked at the past decade and half of our lives, since we learned his name in 1998 with the bombing of the USS Cole, and then of course, his hand in 9/11.

So many of our friends and loved ones in the military, including even ourselves briefly, fought and trained against this man and all that he represented. As much as we made jokes ("Ozombie Bin Laden") there was an intense feeling of relief and pain in our hearts, like an era was ending that we have known longer than most anything else in our lives.

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​Arcade Fire is finally heading to Houston on May 4 for a date up at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, in the Woodlands. Last Sunday the band played upsetters at the Grammys winning the award for Album Of The Year for their album The Suburbs which was based on frontman Win Butler's childhood in the Woodlands in the '80s and '90s.

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Rocks Off still waiting for some phone calls regarding the "hows" and "whys" behind Walter's close, and y'all will be the first to know when we have 'em. All we know for sure is that people are pretty pissed off, if Twitter chatter is any indication. Here are some tweets following our own Craig Hlavaty's announcement of Walter's unfortunate fate last night.

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Solange

​We watched our pals @JanelleMonae @ofmontreal_fans tear up the stage before...and after...all sang "my jamaican guy" like we had one. 2:08 AM Jul 27

there was also a 4 year old glow-stick rave going on with Julezie & some other kids with Gracey dancing with a mannequin as the backdrop. 2:13 AM Jul 27

Chamillionaire

​Man why everyone keeps talking about me cutting my hair today? I know I been low key but my hair been cut since before Obama got in office. 1:10 AM Jul 28

Everybody that wanna quit energy drinks too sign here__________ 7:49 PM Jul 27

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Looks like things in the Trae Day shootings are about where they were last night. The Houston Police Department's homicide unit is involved - although no one was killed - but letting TSU detectives handle the investigation. Rocks Off's Shea Serrano spoke with an official at TSU PD's Office of Communication, who confirmed that six people were shot, one of whom is believed to be a TSU student, but very little else. The department would not say if they believe the shootings were connected to each other or gang-related, as has been widely speculated on Twitter.

Rocks Off will have an interview with Trae, who is said to have left the premises before the shooting began around 8:30 p.m., later on today.

Mayoral candidate Peter Brown, whose campaign co-hosted the event, also first responded to the shootings via Twitter. "It is a shame that this positive event - one encouraging kids to say no to drugs, stay in school and get involved in the community - is being overshadowed by this terrible incident," his campaign said later. "This is a tragedy which re-emphasizes our need to further facilitate drug and crime prevention programs."

Brown was hardly the only one. A TSU Twitter timeline after the jump.

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It's amazing the things that people have to say in 140 characters or less. Some take forever to update their adoring public, about their lives while others tweet like it's about to go out of style. Do they not realize everyone can read these things? And that they are, more or less, setting themselves up for being the punchline in a joke about themselves?

Apparently not. Though, for the most part, things have been quiet since Michael Jackson's funeral, the twitter-verse has is always buzzing from locals to major celebrities. Here's the best of the past week.

Fat Tony

it aint 2am yet & still no fat hoes. buncha skinny white girls though. houston, what the fuck? I got tootsie rolls

my daddy is so damn african he eatin spaghetti pasta over a big ass tupperware tub of rice. ...its like 6 spaghettis, the rest all rice.

Chamillionaire

Alright..... I gotta get to work. I'm thinking about making a song called "snap, crackle, pop" with a dance that goes allong with it...ha ha

And a T shirt with one of the Rice Crispy treat characters on the front that says "It ain't trickin' if ya treatin" on the back.

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