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more about #twitter more comments → hotpinklovesofa: I never got on board with Facebook or any of the other ones but I can say it's officially over when my mother, who can barely use the computer, is on ... more » Shadowlayer: Guess Zuck wants to outsource "girls of FB exposed" to the entire world... But seriously, why is he so obssesed with trying to be twitter? specially ... more » Penscribe: Considering you can join a network and block users from viewing your profile, I don't understand why Facebook is doing away with the option due to "pr... more » jackbarber: Hi Ryan, Stupid lede -- Twitter has absolutely nothing to do with the decline of newspapers. Best, Jack more » Mediahohoho: Tool. more » iplaudius: Apropos nothing, how many people think this guy is packing? Something about him. more » BadUncle: This is fine. As is calling in a bet to your bookie. more » Urbania: Keeping up with revisions to FB privacy settings : My second full-time job. more » Lysergic Asset: That shit-eating smirk looks ready to conquer the world... more » daveyjonesisdead: I log onto Facebook, I see that a distant friend from grade school has been busy in Farmville, I log off of Facebook. If you can build a business mode... more » Trai_Dep: What I'd like to see in FB, and which would be great for members, is being able to create groups that are stand-alone networks. So, say, my Lushes gro... more » iplaudius: Regional-network privacy is meaningless. Anything you can share with all of New York you can share with the world. If you like regions as a way to gr... more » mommy_dearest: Have you seen the new rules that you can't use facebook to run contests as a promotional tool unless you buy thousands of dollars in ads? So much for... more » Magister: This has been bouncing around the blogosphere for a few days and now that it's reached the echelon of Gawker, Mashable and TechCrunch, perhaps even be... more » Lysergic Asset: If you want to see how much Facebook really knows - and reveals - about you, take this quiz (on Facebook) by the ACLU. Log into your Facebook account... more » -
#printisdead
The Disruption Is Coming from Inside the Building
Layoffs at the fast-shrinking San Francisco Chronicle have freed up a lot of office space in the newspaper's headquarters. So naturally the Chronicle is now subleasing to a guy who severely undercut its business model in the first place. Spooky. More » -
#conspiracytheories
Facebook's New 'Privacy' Scheme Smells Like an Anti-Privacy Plot
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued an open letter to his 350+ million users; you probably saw it this morning when logging in. Facebook will kill regional networks like "New York." Why? To trick you.
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#thewaywelivenow
Groom Tweets, Changes Facebook Relationship Status from the Altar
Yes, this actually happened: Dana Hanna, a Maryland computer programmer, whipped out a handheld device (hey-oh!) during his wedding, set his Facebook to "married," and Twittered. Just imagine what he has in store for the honeymoon More » -
#google
It's Not Just You: Everyone Really Is Talking About Twitter
Google released its year-end "Google Zeitgeist" search stats, revealing 2009 America to be way less interested in John McCain and Sarah Palin, and way more interested in Twitter, Google.com's fastest-rising search term. So, forget this "Google," where's Twitter Zeitgeist, already? -
#mediacrack
'Twitter' Is Word of Sexless Year
In your maverick Monday media column: A word is preposterously declared to be The Top, Jim Lehrer takes it slow and steady, the Mike Penner vs. Christine Daniels question, and you are invited to a Hooker Pub. More » -
#uhoh
Michael Lohan Safe after His Twitter Impersonator Fakes Suicide (Updated)
After tweeting his good-byes and threatening to leap to his death off the Brooklyn Bridge, Michael Lohan's purported Twitter account abruptly went dead early Monday morning. What just happened? (Updated) More » -
#howto
Jenny Sanford's Six-Step Guide to Capitalizing on Disgraced Politican Pussyhound Husbands
Jenny Sanford's husband, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, cheated on his wife with an Argentinean lover. Now, with his political career is in shambles, it's time for Jenny Sanford's star to shine bright! And make a decent buck, too.
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#plottwist
Pulp Fiction Screenwriter Tweets From Jail, Ends Up Re-Imprisoned
Jailhouse tweets: harrowing, educational, and a bad idea if you're dodging the terms of your sentence. In the midst of his prison term for a fatal DUI, Roger Avary blew the whistle on his own short-lived accidental freedom via Twitter. More » -
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#twiminals
Tweets on Ice: Dispatches from Jail in 140 Characters or Less
We live in a world where people are arrested and honestly think: "I should tweet about this." From celebrities, to hipsters, to rappers and journalists, here is a compilation of the best tweets from the Inside.
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#selfhelpbooks
Twitter-to-Book Phenomenon Reaches Bottom of the Barrel with Self-Publishing
Couldn't get a Twitter book deal like Nick Douglas, Twitterature, or business huckster Garyvee? Don't fret! Thanks to TweetBookz you don't even need a deal to see your precious 140-character musings on paper. Congrats! You're an author. More » -
#theendisnear
The Return of Pay Per Post and the End of Twitter: Internet as One Long, Subversive Ad
Remember the moment you knew MySpace was doomed? It came in the form of obnoxious ads. Which your Twitter stream is about to be. So: are you making that cash, or being cashed in on? Pay Per Post is back. More » -
#awesomethings
The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report
The Harvard-Yale game's a storied tradition for Ivy League grads who enjoy comparing degree sizes/names. For everyone else, it's an opportunity to watch America's Prestigious Ivy Grads try to act like normal football fans, which they can't. So: what happened?! More » -
#youdontsay
Twitter Transforms Chuck Todd and Howard Kurtz into Idiots
It's Obvious Day on Twitter: NBCer Chuck Todd wonders why Barack Obama can't secure the political support of the man he defeated in the 2008 election, and the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz predicts that Oprah Winfrey may go to cable. More » -
#valleyspeak
Twitter's New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In
Twitter today announced it will prompt users to post by asking "What's happening?" rather than the old "What are you doing?" We asked a prominent linguist if this means anything. Turns out it does: Twitterers are no longer such loners. More » -
#twitwits
Oh, Lydia, Engaging the Crazies on Twitter Will Only Make Them Crazier
Socialite, model, and cool movie star Lydia Hearst loves her some Twitter. While it's great to tell us that she's going to a Twilight screening tonight (OMG!), she should not use it to engage the right-wingnuts who attack her. More » -
#cubicleculture
The Eccentric Office Mrs. Twitter Helped Build
Weird pictures continue to emerge from Twitter's new San Francisco HQ. But at least now we know where some of the outré decor is coming from: the CEO's wife, a designer, reportedly helped with the interior. More » -
#cubicleculture
The Three Weirdest Things in Twitter's New Office
Twitter employees have been uploading pictures of their new digs in San Francisco. Looks like the microblogging startup is more concerned with catching up to its rapid growth than with coherent interior decoration. More » -
#twitter
Brit Writer Mainlines Crazy Twitter
British writer Ian Martin (The Thick Of It decided to unfollow all of his real Twitter friends and replace them with racist psychos. American conservatives, in other words. He calls this project "wrongtwitter." It is eye-opening. More » -
#shutuptwitter
Barack Obama Has Better Things to Do Than Tweet
You would have been delusional to think that the president didn't use a ghostwriter to update his Twitter account, @BarackObama. Still, it's now been confirmed that he didn't write any of his 418 tweets. Geeks are scandalized. More » -
#rumors
Killing Them Softly: The ______ Is Dead Twitter Meme
If the New York Times' The Moment blog and its Twitter feed "hear" that Moz is dead, does it actually happen? Former Idolator editor Maura Johnston writes: "This inspired a lot of panicked e-mails to me late last night." Why? More »
