Cory Booker pauses Senate run to rescue trapped dog
Cory Booker once again answered the Bat-Signal to swoop in and rescue a poor dog. The Newark, N.J., mayor was alerted on Twitter to a dog locked in a small crate for four days. As is his way of...
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The story behind the $1,500 selfie
Here at the Daily Dot, we swap GIF images with each other every morning. Now we’re looping you in. In the Morning GIF, we feature a popular—or just plain cool—GIF we found on Reddit, Tumblr, or...
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Egyptian Revolution 2.0: Morsi is out
As the Egyptian army's deadline passed for Mohamed Morsi to resolve the mass protests against his government, the military told Morsi he was no longer the country's president. The news was first...
View ArticleHow Vine's new features will change the community
Vine has revealed a big update to the video-sharing app that reshapes how community members discover interesting people and makes the best videos more visible. The discovery process on Vine has shifted...
View ArticleTwitter's new anti-spammer rules affect you, too
#TeamFollowBack might have a problem. Twitter is fighting spam with new rules banning aggressive bulk following and auto-following. The restrictions are for third-party developers, but they do impact...
View ArticleVine and the art of 6-second comedy
In comedy, timing is everything. It’s all about the anticipation and delivery, playing off of expectation and striking when the moment’s right. With just six seconds to work, Vine doesn’t leave much...
View ArticleAll it takes to date Lolo Jones is 150,000 retweets
Some guy named Bubby Lyles just gave hope to every lonely kid on the planet with a hopeless celebrity crush and a Twitter account. Lyles scored a date with Olympic track star Lolo Jones, and all it...
View ArticleJay-Z reinvents small talk on Twitter
Jay-Z isn't content with changing the face of rap. The best-selling rapper of all time is now trying to reinvent the way people talk on Twitter, and he's doing an amazing job at it, too. #Mylaugh is...
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3 theories about why Lady Gaga suddenly "shutdown" her Twitter account
A couple of years ago, Lady Gaga burst onto the stage from an egg at the Grammy Awards. Now she's going back inside the egg. Gaga's pretty much shunted her Twitter account back to the womb,...
View ArticleTwitter dress gives youth a voice among Sweden's political bigwigs
Every year, the great and powerful of Sweden converge on the island of Gotland for a summit. Thousands of politicians, public relations workers, lobbyists, and celebrities gather for the Almedalen...
View ArticleTwitter is already auctioning ad space for the 2014 World Cup
When the likes of Lionel Messi and Neymar are tearing up the turf in Brazil to win one of soccer's biggest prizes, Twitter's top advertising spots will long have been decided. The 2014 FIFA World Cup...
View ArticleTwitter discloses the IDs of users accused of anti-Semitism
Twitter has relented in its struggle to withhold the information it has on users accused of posting anti-Semitic tweets. Twitter said the data it handed over Friday will enable "the identification of...
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The USGS is tracking earthquakes with Twitter
BY JASON KOEBLER When people feel the ground shake, they talk about it. That's never been more clear than when an earthquake struck Washington, D.C., in 2011. Even considering D.C.'s nerdy,...
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Laurie Simmons and 6 other celebrity parents on Twitter
Girls creator Lena Dunham’s mother and well-known artist Laurie Simmons has just started tweeting regularly. So far, she’s been signing tweets to her daughter “Love, Mom.” It’s exactly what a mom on...
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You can no longer search for Dwyane Wade on Twitter
Dwyane Wade has three NBA championship rings. He wears the number 3 on his Miami Heat shirt, chosen because it represents the Holy Trinity. Wade refused to answer questions at a postgame press...
View ArticleEveryone on Twitter is at the same party, and it's a nightmare
You know that one Twitter user who pollutes your feed with hourly updates about his band? How about the guy who retweets everything without contributing a single original thought? Or the...
View ArticleDared by a 1,000 retweets, dude invades MLB All-Star field
During Tuesday's Major League Baseball All-Star Game, one guy tried to make himself famous by running onto the field. As history tells us, those plans never quite work out, and such sports venue...
View ArticleWikiLeaks is not impressed with the new WikiLeaks movie trailer
The trailer for the new WikiLeaks movie, The Fifth Estate, was released yesterday, and WikiLeaks promptly took to Twitter to voice its dissent. Benedict Cumberbatch, he of Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek...
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Search engine CEO faces adultery allegations online
Try asking ChaCha, the rogue search engine that claims it has an answer to any question, what happens when your CEO's wife outs you as a cheater on Twitter. Scott Jones, the site's founder, just...
View ArticlePolice: Zimmerman verdict was excuse for L.A. teen "riot"
Shortly after 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Los Angeles 911 dispatchers were flooded with reports of a wild band of teens running into traffic, assaulting pedestrians, and looting. Now police, who suspect the...
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