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Perez Back on YouTube

Celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton’s war against YouTube didn’t last long.

After posting a YouTube kiss-off video Dec. 20 urging other video creators to defect from the site as well, Mr. Hilton returned to the site Dec. 27 with a video showing his new hair color and hair extensions.

Then on Jan. 1 he posted two new videos: one with his New Year’s predictions for 2008 and a clip of him celebrating New Year’s in Times Square.

His return to the world’s biggest video-sharing site comes just two weeks after the site pulled his channel for two days due to copyright violations. He resolved the copyright matter and the channel was reinstated, but Mr. Hilton said at the time that he planned to test new video services and didn’t intend to return to YouTube.

In late December he posted videos using Revver and private-label service Twistage on his own site. He has continued to post videos on PerezHilton.com using Twistage, including one earlier this week on finding a set of dentures on the streets of New York.

Twistage CEO David Wadler said his company has inked a deal with PerezHilton.com and Blogads.com, which sells ads on Mr. Hilton’s site, to license the Twistage technology to the gossip blogger for posting videos directly on PerezHilton.com.

Mr. Hilton did not immediately reply to an e-mail seeking comment.

12:05 p.m.: Updated sixth paragraph.

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