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Chris Brown and Rihanna are following each other on Twitter, two years after he assaulted her.Now that the restraining order against him has been relaxed, Chris Brown is taking advantage of it and getting closer to Rihanna -- on the Internet.
On Saturday, it was noticed that the R&B singer -- who viciously beat his then-girlfriend in his car the night of the 2009 Grammys -- recently started following Rihanna on Twitter. More shocking, she's also now following her abusive ex.
When a Rihanna fan tweeted her about it and asked if it meant that she and Brown were getting back together, the Barbadian beauty, 23, seemed pretty peeved about the notion.
"its fu**in twitter, not the alter!" she wrote. "calm down."
After the fan apologized for upsetting her, Rihanna was sorry for the harsh way she reacted -- and then tweeted back to the fan, who claims she's a 14-year-old girl.
"babygirl I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt or offend u! Just needed to make it clear to the Navy [Rihanna fans nickname]...xoxo"
Rihanna then started following the young girl on Twitter, too.
In February, Rihanna asked a judge to lessen the restraining order against Brown, 22, to a level one, which allows him to contact her as long as he doesn't "annoy, molest or harrass" her. At the time, the decision was made to do so because it was keeping Brown from attending and/or performing at award shows that Rihanna was also attending.
The following month, Brown was asked about the domestic abuse incident during an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America." The singer was so upset with "GMA" anchor Robin Roberts' questions, he stormed off the show, broke a window in his dressing room and then ripped off his shirt before security escorted him out.
"I just let off, like, steam in the back," Brown said after the incident. "I didn't physically hurt anyone. I didn't try to hurt anyone. I just released the anger that I had inside me."
