16-Year-Old Sparks Twitter Trend, Controversy #OMGFacts

Jan. 22, 2010— -- Twitter can make you feel like a star, but you'd better not let it get to your head.

Just ask 16-year-old Adorian Deck.

Since starting his playfully named page @OMGFacts in September 2009, the California teen has amassed more than 300,000 followers on Twitter by posting a few eye-popping factoids each day.

Mining the Internet and iPhone applications, he's unearthed trivial but titillating tidbits about everything from celebrities and pop culture to world history and commerce.

"Ashton Kutcher has two webbed toes."

"Women end up digesting most of the lipstick they apply."

"The first product that Sony came out with was a rice cooker."

It's attracted the coveted attention of celebs like Alyssa Milano, Lindsay Lohan and Kim Kardashian (who reportedly has charged up to $10,000 to promote products on Twitter).

"It was very incredible," Deck said. "I never thought of it. It's just insanity."

But on Monday, Twitter taught the high school junior a lesson he'll never forget.

"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spent his last night on Earth having sex with two women," he posted.

And with that, the barbs started to fly.

"Unfollow @OMGFacts for their crude tweet about Martin Luther King Jr yesterday!," posted one tweeter.

"What a disrespectful way to dishonor MLK," posted another.

Rapper Q-Tip commented, "it wasnt racist just tasteless."

"It became a big firestorm," said celebrity and pop culture blogger Shabooty, who wrote a post about the incident on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. "A lot of people were kind of appalled."

A few hours after the controversial tweet, followers of @OMGFacts noticed that the account disappeared, Shabooty said. Some surmised that Twitter had shut it down over the comment, others thought the creator had deleted it.

Though the account was back up by Monday evening, @OMGFacts hasn't tweeted anything since Monday.

But Deck told ABCNews.com that he isn't quitting @OMGFacts, he's just taking a bit of a hiatus to "recover and think about things."

"For the people that I've disrespected, I say sorry," he said.