Britney Spears fans are rallying in outrage over the suggestion Taylor Swift is better — and the tweets are hilarious

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• Britney Spears fans are out in full force after the New York Post published an article titled: "Everything Britney did, Taylor does better."
• The article's tweet has over 2,000 responses and a combined hundreds of thousands of retweets from people making jokes or expressing indignant disbelief.
• Many think the assertion is flat out wrong due to Spears' iconic pop princess status.
• Others are angry that a media company would pit two women against each other.
• See all the best tweets below.

Nothing draws the ire of people like an attempt at dragging Britney Spears. The New York Post's Chuck Arnold took things a step further with an article headlined "Everything Britney did, Taylor does better," suggesting Taylor Swift is outpacing Spears in fame.

Arnold's article goes through some of the similarities between Spears and Swift, namely their shared song-writing collaborator Max Martin and other milestones like having major "MTV Video Music Awards" moments. See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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