It’s official: Britney Spears has just become the top Twitter account, surpassing longtime Twitter king Ashton Kutcher by a margin of a handful followers at press time.

The Super Bowl is consistently one of the most-watched television programs of the year. Even as network television viewership continues to erode — thanks to cable, timeshifting and Internet options — advertisers are still willing to pay big ad dollars for a spot on Super Bowl Sunday.

Want to know Santa’s whereabouts this Christmas Eve? Well, Google has you covered. The company has been helping NORAD track the man in red since 2004 — the bi-national U.S.-Canadian military organization had been tackling the task all on its lonesome since 1955, when a Sears and Roebuck magazine ad accidentally instructed readers to call NORAD instead of the real hotline.

2009 was a year of ups and downs for Yahoo search. While we wait for the Yahoo/Microsoft search deal to take effect, we know that Yahoo still holds firm as the number two search site, with 18.8% market share (to Google’s 64.9%) according to October data from comScore .

We’ve seen a couple of heavy-hitting matchups in our Faceoff series in the last couple of weeks, with Google Android smashing Apple’s iPhone and Verizon trouncing AT&T recently. This week we have another clash of the titans, with Microsoft’s relatively new search contender Bing going head-to-head against incumbent Google for Mashable readers’ search supremacy. Who will be the winner in this week’s faceoff?

There have been several high profile hackings of Twitter accounts, with the likes of Britney Spears and even Barack Obama having their accounts compromised (with bizarre tweets sent from them) for at least a few minutes.

It wouldn’t be an award show without some sort of bizarre and shocking moment that gets the Internet abuzz, and last night’s American Music Awards were no exception. The talk of the show this time is Adam Lambert’s (who you may remember from American Idol ) performance, in which he kisses another guy towards the end. The event is still the talk of the Web this morning, bringing back memories of the infamous Britney Spears and Madonna makeout from the 2003 VMAs which pre-dates both YouTube and Twitter (nonetheless, the clip still has 5 million views)

The day after Thanksgiving, which this year falls on November 27th, is also known as Black Friday, and it marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping craze.

People find interesting ways to “prove” that Elvis and Tupac are alive and that the Loch Ness Monster really exists. So we shouldn’t be shocked that some people are trying to do the same thing with the King of Pop, especially around what would have been his birthday. Earlier this week, a video surfaced on both LiveLeak and YouTube purporting that not only is Michael Jackson alive, but that he faked his death and left the Coroner’s van in perfect shape

YouTube’s been on a high-speed growth upswing. Last month, YouTube became the 4th most visited site on the web after it beat out Microsoft’s Live.com and MSN, with 85.1 million U.S. visitors