Topic: Twitter

Twitter Is What You Make It, Ashton

Reuters

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. 

By Ray Gustini

May 2, 2012

What the Tweet?

Kathleen Turner, France, and Terrence Malick-y

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

Comments | 347 Views

By Ray Gustini

May 1, 2012

What the Tweet?

Ain't No Party Like a Scalia Party, Dolphins, and Ex-Best Friends

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

 

Comments | 357 Views

By Ray Gustini

Apr 30, 2012

What the Tweet?

Pizza, Twitter History, and Ed Harris's Tears

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

Comments | 83 Views

By Ray Gustini

Apr 27, 2012

What the Tweet?

Job Hogs, Starlets, and Daffodils

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

Comments | 404 Views

By Eric Randall

Apr 26, 2012

Did You Hear the One About the Pundit Who Thought Lesbians Are Funny?

Political commentator Monica Crowley is enduring some social media criticism Thursday for a decidedly uncreative joke she made about Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown Law Student who withstood Rush Limbaugh's unpleasant attacks earlier this year.

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By Ray Gustini

Apr 25, 2012

What the Tweet?

Forgotten Couples, Three Dollar Lunches, Ging's Long Goodbye

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.

Comments | 153 Views

By Ray Gustini

Apr 24, 2012

What the Tweet?

Missing Diners, Stationery, and Purple Maps

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

 

Comments | 359 Views

By Ray Gustini

Apr 23, 2012

What the Tweet?

Mrs. Putin, Muscle Suits, and Cokie Roberts' Dog

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

Comments | 179 Views

By Ray Gustini

Apr 19, 2012

What the Tweet?

Loose Ties, Riddles, and Pillow Forts

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

Comments | 345 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Apr 19, 2012

The Week's Top Twenty in Social Media

The social media sphere continued to spin this week as spring set in. National Amusements topped the charts, bumping Disney down to number two. Whereas the rest of the top 10 stayed stagnant, there was a lot of movement in the teens, with NBC Universal and WWE both winning the biggest mover status.

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By Ray Gustini

Apr 18, 2012

What the Tweet?

Doll Houses, James Franco, and a Most Unusual Candle

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.

 

Comments | 172 Views

By Elspeth Reeve

Apr 18, 2012

Jose Canseco Is At Least Half-Aware of What He's Doing on Twitter

Semi-retired baseball star Jose Canseco is both unaware and too aware of his public persona when he's being crazy on Twitter, and the result is sometimes intentionally funny.

Comments | 3,867 Views

By Ray Gustini

Apr 17, 2012

What the Tweet?

Time Travel, Clive Owen, and One Giant Pig

After a long day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

Comments | 222 Views

By Ray Gustini

Apr 13, 2012

What the Tweet?

Life Expectancy, Stooges, and Burkas

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.

Comments | 485 Views

By Ray Gustini

Apr 11, 2012

What the Tweet?

Shannen Doherty, Love Motels, and Romney's Spy

After a long day spent staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.

Comments | 1,207 Views

By Eric Randall

Apr 11, 2012

Dear Free Beacon: Twitter Follows Are Not Endorsements

For your daily dose of reportorial overreach: The Washington Free Beacon has an article criticizing an Obama campaign staffer for blasting Mitt Romney's record on women's issues while herself ... following woman-beaters on Twitter. Scandal!

Comments | 1,409 Views

By Ray Gustini

Apr 10, 2012

What the Tweet?

Bounced Checks, Twitter Etiquette, and Mike Tyson's Pigeons

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

Comments | 237 Views

By Elspeth Reeve

Apr 10, 2012

Santorum Quits on the Same Day That [Blank]. Coincidence?

Rick Santorum's "suspension" (read: termination) of his presidential campaign has caused an unintentional (we think) meme has sprung fully formed from Twitter's brain.

Comments | 1,472 Views

By Ray Gustini

Apr 9, 2012

What the Tweet?

Big Hats, Eye Candy, and Doomsday Dates

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

Comments | 446 Views

By Ray Gustini

Apr 6, 2012

What the Tweet?

Amanda Bynes, Crews, and Kardanye

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

Comments | 1,479 Views

By Rebecca Greenfield

Apr 6, 2012

Tweet Goodbye to Your Spambot Followers

Twitter's new war against spam will get rid of a huge chunk of your followers, probably.

Comments | 2,243 Views

By Ray Gustini

Apr 5, 2012

What the Tweet?

Sharks, Portugal, and Sarkozy the Cheese-Banner

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

Comments | 517 Views

By Ray Gustini

Apr 4, 2012

What the Tweet?

Philip Roth, Bank Robberies, and James Bond's Beer

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.

Comments | 297 Views

By Ray Gustini

Mar 30, 2012

What the Tweet?

Missing Falcons, Lottery Fever, and Psychic Gorillas

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

Comments | 1,767 Views

By Ray Gustini

Mar 29, 2012

What the Tweet?

Lottery Tickets, Red Pants, and Non-News

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

Comments | 771 Views

By Ray Gustini

Mar 28, 2012

What the Tweet?

Dummies, Krazystraws, and Martha Stewart's Dentist

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

Comments | 298 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Mar 28, 2012

Stat of the Day

$1,000-a-Day Off of Spamming Pinterest Is Too Good to Be True

The incredible $1,000-a-day windfall one man named "Steve" claimed to make by spamming Pinterest users turned out to be just that -- not very credible.

Comments | 1,482 Views

By Adam Martin

Mar 28, 2012

Time to Own Up to Dropping People on Twitter

Twitter has finally acknowledged a long-suspected bug that makes users automatically unfollow accounts for no apparent reason, and now that it's working on a fix, many would rather keep the bug to cover the awkwardness of manually unfollowing people.

Comments | 533 Views

By Ray Gustini

Mar 27, 2012

What the Tweet?

Benches, Tall Guys, and January Jones

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

Comments | 345 Views

By Ray Gustini

Mar 26, 2012

What the Tweet?

Tombstone Cheese, Phony Barristers, and Marathons

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.

Comments | 345 Views

By Ray Gustini

Mar 23, 2012

What the Tweet?

Insane Wallpaper, Salieri, and Batman Busted

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

Comments | 714 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Mar 23, 2012

Twitter's New Hashtag Project Sounds Risky

Twitter's Communications team is trying to build buzz around the funny, weird and interesting events that could only happen on Twitter. It's called #OnlyOnTwitter.

Comments | 795 Views

By Ray Gustini

Mar 22, 2012

What the Tweet?

Cate Blanchett, Tim Tebow, and the Private War of Louis Armstrong

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.

Comments | 1,216 Views

By Rebecca Greenfield

Mar 22, 2012

The Manliest Things on the Internet

After hearing all that talk about Pinterest as the social network for ladies, we wondered what kind of stuff men did on the Internet, especially since we found out there's a whole male sharing culture happening on here.

Comments | 3,274 Views

By Rebecca Greenfield

Mar 22, 2012

Nick Bilton's Still Celebrating Twitter's Wrong Birthday

A day too late, Nick Bilton, New York Times tech writer and author of a book called I Live in the Future, sent out a tweet wishing the Twitter gang a happy birthday on an even more wrong day than yesterday.

Comments | 85 Views

By Rebecca Greenfield

Mar 22, 2012

The Dry World of Wall Street Twitter Accounts

Turns out letting people in the finance biz tweet about work isn't all too exciting to anyone not in the finance world.

Comments | 399 Views

By Ray Gustini

Mar 21, 2012

What the Tweet?

French Film, Boomtowns, and 'Titanic'

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.

Comments | 400 Views

By Rebecca Greenfield

Mar 21, 2012

Is Today Twitter's Birthday? Not Really.

Everyone from Mashable to The White House is wishing Twitter a happy sixth birthday today, but we remember celebrating Twitter's birthday last July, too. So, what gives? 

Comments | 1,200 Views

By Ray Gustini

Mar 20, 2012

What the Tweet?

'Pretty Woman,' Benedict Cumberbatch, and Romney's Lava Lamp

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.

Comments | 2,010 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Mar 20, 2012

Ads Will Follow You on Twitter Everywhere

It was good while it lasted.Twitter announced on Tuesday that it's expanding its ad offerings so that brands like American Express can send promotions not only to users who follow their accounts but also "to mobile users that share similar interests with their existing followers."

Comments | 316 Views

By Ray Gustini

Mar 19, 2012

What the Tweet?

Doodles, Team-Building, and Woody Allen Titles

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

Comments | 295 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Mar 19, 2012

Users Still Turn to Traditional Sites for News

While new media evangelists like to say social media has takeover of the news,  Pew Research Center's State of the News Media report shows that the revolution is still far from overthrowing the old regime.

Comments | 1,459 Views

By Ray Gustini

Mar 16, 2012

What the Tweet?

Neutrinos, Tom Hanks, and Leprechauns

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

Comments | 268 Views

By Ray Gustini

Mar 15, 2012

What the Tweet?

Moon Rocks, Bear Fights, and Rutherford B. Hayes

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

Comments | 690 Views

By Eric Randall

Mar 15, 2012

The Blog Post That Drove Rush Limbaugh to Tweet

Rush Limbaugh has had a personal Twitter account since 2009, but it has taken him over three years to send his first tweet. He wanted to share a blog post concerning the boycott of advertisers on his show.

Comments | 6,845 Views

By Ray Gustini

Mar 14, 2012

What the Tweet?

Guinness, Hot Dogs, and Mitt Romney the Mythological Beast

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

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By Jen Doll

Mar 14, 2012

The Parallel Twitter Lives of Jose Canseco and Horse_eBooks

Two Internet favorites seem to be leading parallel lives on Twitter. Whose tweet belongs to whom? Test yourself.

Comments | 1,349 Views

By Ray Gustini

Mar 13, 2012

What the Tweet?

Career Moves, Yoga Injuries, and Sandy Koufax

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.

Comments | 329 Views

By Ray Gustini

Mar 12, 2012

What the Tweet?

Stunning Castles, Meatloaf Cakes, and Dream Tickets

After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.

Comments | 517 Views

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