Doesn't Ashton Kutcher know what happens to people who complain about how terrible Twitter has gotten since the good old days? They get shamed with the following adage: Twitter is what you make it, bro.
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.
Alec Baldwin, prolific tweeter and anti-paparrazi activist, (who is also -- we've heard -- an actor), quit Twitter on Monday. His parting words: "It's been fun." Instead of wallowing in grief, let's remember the good times.
Occupy Wall Street protester Malcolm Harris is not alone in having his tweets subpoenaed: according to Twitter's semi-annual first semi-annual report, the company said it has produced information in 75 percent of the 679 requests it has received so far in 2012 from U.S. government agencies.
If you tweet something, you can't consider it private speech even if you later delete it, a New York judge ruled on Monday, denying for the second time a motion to quash a subpoena against an Occupy Wall Street protester arrested last October.
Twitter sent Margarita Noriega, the woman behind @ReutersHulk a message saying the account got suspended for wild @-reply use, she told The Atlantic Wire via e-mail.
The glory days are always behind journalists. The blame mostly lies with the communications technology that makes their jobs so much easier.
After less than a day of life, the anonymous Twitter parody account @ReutersHulk got shut down and nobody knows why.
Morgan Stanley will soon let its 18,000 financial advisers have access to Twitter -- that access, however, will be very limited and thus, their tweets will be very boring.
Rupert Murdoch tweeted his latest complaints with the Romney campaign and said Romney doesn't even look like a challenger to Barack Obama's presidency.
Twitter apologized and explained why it was down Thursday afternoon, and while the reason is perfectly acceptable, something about their apology unsettled us.
Although a hacker group called UGNazis is telling at least one news outlet that they caused the Twitter outage today, the @TwitterComs handle, which offers official statements for the company, has a different explanation: a "cascaded bug" in one of its infrastructure components.
We're sick of people telling us the right and wrong way to use Twitter, and that includes this missive by Slate's Farhad Manjoo reiterating his call for a longer character limits.
The ratings for ABC's tightrope walk are in, and the stunt pulled huge numbers, proving that people will flock to television we can all talk about.
By most human accounts, Sweden's latest social experiment of letting random Swedes control the country's official Twitter account has been a bit of disaster after of Sonja Abrahamsson, a topless-appearing 27-year-old shared her curiosity about Jews. But if you ask number-crunching robots, it's been a huge success.
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By now you're probably wise to the fact that many celebrities' "official" Twitter and Facebook accounts are actually run by their handlers and their teams, and the FLOTUS isn't an exception. Which is why we were surprised that her newly-launched Pinterest account feels almost personal.
After Stephen Colbert announced his intentions to take over Sweden's national Twitter account (operation #artificialswedener), we're betting that it's only a matter of time before the Swedish tourist board hands over the password to the Comedy Central personality.
Not content to kick off her week-long stint manning Sweden's twitter feed with Hitler jokes, Sonja Abrahamsson, the 27-year-old mother of two currently running the feed, decided to try a new line inquiry: "Whats the fuzz with jews"?
For about six months now, the country of Sweden has let everyday citizens take turns running its national Twitter feed; then on the day that program got a front-page write-up in The New York Times, the citizen-curator started making Hitler jokes.
Many commentators are saying that Twitter created its first television ad for advertisers. Then why did it make us a tiny bit emotional?
Of late we've come across a couple of guides for living our lives on Twitter, and, you know what, we're sick of rules.
Today Twitter did something we're not used to from the company, it showed some business savvy, with Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announcing the company's mobile strategy is working, and the company is predicted to be bringing in $1 billion in revenue by 2014.
Twitter introduced its new bird doodle logo today and instead saying "Hey, birds tweet—look how cute this bird is," they've given us some overdetermined explanation about networks and circles or something.
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
The Sunlight Foundation just launched a really fun, vast new site called "Politiwoops" that collects all the tweets that politicians have deleted from their Twitter feeds in the past six months
Today link shortening service Bit.ly introduced a redesign that turns it into something more than a link shortener, compromising what made Bit.ly so desirable in the first place.
The Washington Post's Twitter feed reached 1 million followers Tuesday, so they put together a fun tribute by embedding the images of their Twitter followers' profile pictures into an interactive graphic.
The President called himself as a "Twoosh master," referring to when someone uses all 140 characters in a tweet, in a video from a Twitter Q&A he did on Thursday. We'd like to dispute his claim of social media mastery.
We didn't even want to know who was behind @NotTildaSwinton, but now we do, because apparently the lifespan of Twitter memes is shortening by the day.
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
Those expecting such a spontaneous exchange with President Obama when he announced a seemingly impromptu Twitter Q&A on Thursday night were sorely disappointed to find the questions cherry-picked earlier by White House staff.
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
The government in Pakistan banned Twitter for promoting a "blasphemous" cartoon contest on Facebook through Twitter on Sunday.
The tweeting masses are on board with the cause of the moment, gay marriage, by a roughly 2.6-to-1 margin, according to a report from Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Today in publishing and literature: The Problem With Translated Books; Robert Caro To Tweet (Someday), and a Facebook memoir from The Zuck's former assistant.
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense
For the past few months, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been running around New York City talking up its potential to become the best city in America for tech companies, and it seems to be working.
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense
Twitter joined the battle to keep New York's District Attorney out of Occupy protestor Malcolm Harris's tweets on Thursday in what might be a landmark move.
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense
For television shows, technology presents particular problems. Some are doing it well...others, less so.
There's talk George Clooney's big fundraiser for President Obama could generate $12 million, the guy who sold "The Scream" and Neil Young conversed, and Mark Wahlberg denies he's getting artificially ripped for his new movie.
Twitter's well-documented spam problem is creeping into the hashtag section, making it difficult for the kind of people who take their hashtags the most seriously: denizens of the endless social media conferences.
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