Teenagers really are over Facebook. In a deep report published on Tuesday, Pew Research explains that teenagers departing the social network's blue confines are looking for something more... authentic. Which, ironically, was the initial draw of Facebook, and has become something of a calling card for Tumblr and Twitter. Somewhere, Marissa Mayer is smiling.
Today in books and fiction: Twitter to celebrate very short stories; The Mo Yan-iest Place on Earth; Chris Ware's new graphic novel shuns e-reading; it's too early for 2013 Nobel odds.
Best-selling author Jennifer Weiner has responded to the news of New York Times Magazine's "Talk" columnist Andrew Goldman's month-long suspension from the paper over his recent tweets, called "insulting and profane" by New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan.
For the first time ever, Twitter censored a controversial account at the request of local government earlier this week. It was run by neo-Nazis.
Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey wants us to do him a favor and stop calling the people who use his product—or really any technology product—users, because it's too abstract.
Who has more clout in spreading the news: the New York Times, the Guardian or Wired? Such questions have been the stuff of cocktail chatter but now, thanks to the rise of Twitter and big data analytics, we have some hard evidence.
Hate to spoil the party, but the whole "binders full of women" thing from last night's debate? It's already over. It was funny for about, let's say, fifteen minutes, but by the time the inevitable @Romneys_Binder Twitter account popped up (not to mention the single-service Tumblr and, ugh, the other binder Twitter), the joke had already flourished, matured, and died.
Contrary to a rumor going around, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo insists that founder Jack Dorsey is not difficult to work with, though we're not sure we believe him.
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has confirmed on his personal Tumblr that he indeed doesn't work as much as he used to with Twitter, an assertion made in this weekend's Nick Bilton's profile of Twitter CEO Dick Costolo in The New York Times.
Here's a 21st Century story about the speed with which an innocent joke becomes a roaring Twitter meme and just as quickly dies in the GIF wastelands of Tumblr.
Last night's presidential debate was the most-tweeted about political event in U.S. history, proving once again that Twitter has become the indispensable tool for following current events.
Data from the Buzzfeed network has found many fewer page views are coming from email than they used to, as other modes of sharing, like Facebook and Twitter have taken off. We have a theory for why: emailing links around takes too much effort.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
What happens on social media when people stop being polite and start getting real? Maybe we realize that's what we should have been doing all along.
After hyping a "big announcement" yesterday, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo appeared on Today to unveil a new look for the social media platform featuring bigger photos and a more "personal" profile and complete overhaul of the iPad design--all of which Costolo says should go into effect today.
Mitt Romney's campaign so thoroughly believes in the power of its no-apologies-for-America foreign policy that it bought an ad on a Twitter hashtag mocking it.
Lance Armstrong seemed to accidentally tweet his phone number to the world earlier, but once Deadspin got on the case it seems the tweet might all be part of a big joke.
If all the coolest people have left and the lamest people have joined, does that make Twitter officially over? Kaput? Done?
If a convention speaker can "win" Twitter, President Obama, whose speech last night spurred nearly 53,000 tweets per minute at one point, won by a long shot according to Twitter's blog.
Twitter has now made it absolutely clear that developers should stop even trying to comply with its new API rules because the social media site wants to own everything that happens on it.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Twitter's been kind of distant lately, what with all their new rules and everything, and now they're sort-of breaking up with Tumblr. But Tumblr doesn't want them to break up because they've been together for so long, and this was so out of the blue, and it's all very complicated right now.
The biggest takeaway from Twitter's new API announcement is they're trying to phase out third-party clients eventually, but for now they're just setting a glass ceiling to stop them from growing.
There's a new publishing startup that's gotten some people excited because it's different than the things out there—especially since those things have given us the chaotic Internet society we live in today.
Little Printer, the physical paper product the tech world has decided to care about, is available for preorder today, so anyone else who wants a device that prints the Internet on a receipt-size piece of paper can get one, too -- for $259.
For about a month now, we've been enjoying the @NIKKlFINKE (that's a lowercase "L" at the end of "Nikki") twitter account, a parody of notorious Deadline.com showbiz gossip/reclusive dragon Nikki Finke. Alas, that account is now dead. Or at least suspended. The funny thing, though? So is the real @NikkiFinke.
Former Onion digital head Baratunde Thurston's Fast Company story of how he almost destroyed The Onion's Twitter credibility in 2008 by accidentally turning it into a spam bot is entertaining and instructive, but it also omits another questionable chapter in The Onion's Twitter history.
Donald Trump is a pretty popular guy. So popular, in fact, that he may not be able to attend this month's Republican National Convention in Tampa, he tells The New York Times' Jeremy Peters.
It was the specificity of the threats that made New York police lean on Twitter to turn over the identifying details of a user who said he wanted to shoot up the Longacre Theater, the location where Mike Tyson's one-man show is playing.
We've all lied about applying to schools before. "Of course I sent in my grad school applications," keeps mom happy while you live in her basement working part time for beer money. If you're going to lie about about it on Twitter, though, be prepared to get busted by the school you've apparently applied to.
Rob Delaney won't stop picking on Mitt Romney, and it's making his career. The comedian's tweets about the Republican nominee are so popular they're routinely in the top three mentions of Romney on the social network.
Wondering just who everyone is on Facebook? Well, wonder about 83 million fewer of them.
And just like that, he's back: Guy Adams, the Independent reporter Twitter suspended for a supposed privacy violation after he harshly criticized NBC's Olympics coverage, has had his account reinstated, critical tweets and all.
Following Twitter's announcement of a new feature called Cashtags, which allow users to follow stocks, Howard Lindzon, CEO of StockTwits called the move a "hijacking" of his similar service.
The saga of Guy Adams, the Independent journalist suspended from Twitter after a series of tweets critical of NBC, took an insidious turn on Tuesday as NBC claimed it filed its complaint about Adams at Twitter's behest.
Fantasizing about how Apple could spend its $117 billion cash mound leads to one astounding conclusion: The company has more money than it could ever spend—even if it went on an extravagant tech company shopping spree.
Twitter suspended the account of a journalist who was one of the loudest voices criticizing NBC's Olympics coverage, after NBC complained he'd inappropriately shared the personal information of one of its executives.
The IOC and Twitter have worked closely in recent weeks to promote the microblog service as a means to engage with athletes, competitions and London 2012. But mobile social media users are proving so voluminous at some Olympic venues that they are now interfering with mobile networks on which the games themselves depend, the IOC says.
Yesterday we told you about the New York Times' report that Apple and Twitter had engaged in talks about a potentially huge investment, but as other news organizations looked into it the excitement over the story quickly disappeared.
Apple and Twitter have a great relationship. Their relationship is so great, in fact, that Apple executives have spoken with Twitter about making an investment somewhere in the hundreds of millions of dollars range.
Almost four hours after Twitter came back to life from its terrifying Thursday outage, the company offered a bit of an explanation as to what happened, though it's not very enlightening.
Many users now have their Gchat back after Thursday morning's service failure, but are now facing a new blackout around lunchtime: Twitter won't load!
When companies are asked to define themselves as either media or tech companies, it seems it's usually because they don't have a definitive answer.
Twitter is working on a way to give tweeters access to their entire archive, leading us to wonder why anyone would want that in the first place.
Sometimes when people do very impressive things during their Internet leisure time it gets them real, paid jobs.
Whose voice should narrate a ridiculously successful erotic novel, and whose voice would creep us out?
There are temptations at home that do not exist in traditional work spaces. We asked some hyper-productive friends of The Atlantic Wire who work from home to explain their strategies, and what it is they do all day.
Like any group of frenemies, the tech elite descending upon Sun Valley, Idaho for the Allen & Co. conference today make statements about more than just their fashion sense with their outfit choices.
Looking to solve the great soda versus pop debate, data scientist Edwin Chen went to Twitter for some data points and his results are pretty consistent with actual linguistic data on the topic.
Getting attention—and clicks—amid the cacophony of Twitter can be difficult, but James Taranto, editor of The Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal.com and Best of the Web blogger has a maniacally effective (if painful) way of cutting through the noise.
Just as mysteriously as the @ReutersHulk twitter account disappeared the other week, it has returned to Twitter, with not even its creator having any explanation for its resurrection.
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