Celebrities may temper Twitter comments after 2011 blunders (omg!)

Kasey Kahne rests on the the roof of his car during the race introductions NASCAR Sprint Cup Sharpie 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol Tennessee, August 23, 2008. REUTERS /Robert LeSieur

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Celebrities may resist the urge to send a stream of consciousness on Twitter in the new year, after famous people tweeted their way into trouble on everything from boxer briefs to breast-feeding in 2011.

NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne became the latest celebrity to blunder on Twitter, when he recently had to apologize for a tweet critical of public breast-feeding.

But Kahne has been far from alone in discovering Twitter’s pitfalls. The year 2011 saw Congressman Anthony Weiner resign in a scandal that began with an

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