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A visual guide to the most selfie-obsessed celebrities
Between covers and parodies and endless talk of her controversial VMA performance and twerking legacy, it's next to impossible to ignoreMiley Cyrus or her accompanying wrecking ball of Mileymania. But...
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You could be the next Luke Skywalker
Concerned about what the Walt Disney Company will do with Star Wars: Episode VII? Worried it will feature Ben Affleck or Katherine Heigl in lead roles? Prepare to squeal with glee, Star Wars geeks: In...
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Weird Twitter's best tweets get the Criterion Collection treatment
The Twitter Criterion, created by Rob Whisman, has a simple mission. It is “dedicated to preserving & redistributing important classic and contemporary tweets.” To that end, each tweet in the...
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CEO dismisses 'transphobic' accusations on Tumblr
We all know that old Facebook photos and embarrassing blog posts can come back to haunt us, but Tumblr may well be the worst of the bunch, as one CEO found out recently. Tumblr lulls you into a false...
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What Twitter's IPO means for you
Today, one of our most beloved social networks becomes a public company. Here’s what that means for Twitter users.What happened on Facebook after its 2012 initial public offering will likely be a good...
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How #ObamasGreatBigBoner became America's No. 1 trending topic
On the day Twitterwent public, the company had a market valuation of $18.1 billion. Each of Twitter's 230 million users was worth $78. And in the U.S., this was the community's most important...
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Twitter's IPO storms out of the gate, but some already sense trouble
Wednesday evening, Twitter Inc. issued a press release about its Thursday IPO via—what else?—the company Twitter account. The company would be putting 70,000,000 common shares on the open market,...
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Hustler Club hosts #Tatas4Twtr, a topless Twitter IPO celebration
Always a brand on the cutting edge, the Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club in San Francisco is currently in the midst of a noon-to-6pm party called #Tatas4Twtr, a simultaneous celebration of the alluring...
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Money is changing the Web, and we are all for sale
What’s the financial equivalent of “Eternal September”? Depending on how long you’ve been obsessed with the Internet, you may not be familiar with the expression. So for the n00bs out there, let me...
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All of Twitter's F-bombs tracked on 1 handy real-time app
The East Coast is bursting with F-bombs right now. This is according to f-bomb.co, a new app that tracks users posting the word “f**k” on Twitter. When someone swears, a little bomb pops up on the map...
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Did Snowden steal his colleagues' passwords?
Months after former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden leaked a trove of documents detailing the National Security Agency's Internet and telephone surveillance operations, many questions remain...
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How much are Twitter executives' tweets worth to the company?
Last week, Twitter became the latest in the long march of 21st-century tech companies to go public for an unimaginable amount of money. And when it did so, it was required to file an Initial Public...
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Anonymous calls for Israeli boycott with massive Twitter protest
In July, the European Union proposed a ban on providing financial assistance to Israeli organizations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip—a move Secretary of State John Kerry urged the E.U. to...
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College applicants: Watch what you tweet
It may only be news to the carefree teenagers affected, but some colleges have begun to gently remind high school students that one’s social media presence can have a negative impact on already...
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Multiracial families respond to Richard Cohen's race-baiting
If you thought Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen might avoid including a nasty aside about interracial marriage in an editorial nominally about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, you really...
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How you can help victims of Typhoon Haiyan
Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded, fell on the Philippines Friday, destroying virtually everything it touched. As of Tuesday morning, 1,774 fatalities have been...
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JPMorgan Chase's #AskJPM campaign turned into a PR nightmare
When a too-big-to-fail company is ordered to pay back more than $300 million for illegal credit card practices that scammed hundreds of thousands of people, an open forum like Twitter is a risky place...
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This college bro is the unlikely king of Vine
Take your typical class clown, then give him a fearless attitude, an impeccable sense of slapstick, plus a dash of sheer athleticism, and you’ll have someone approximating Logan Paul. The Ohio...
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Facebook is the biggest social news source in America
Twitter was dethroned, Facebook rose to the top, and YouTube found itself in a strategic position in the latest study on social media news consumption. The Pew Research Center study polled 5,173 people...
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Twitter gun threats lead to Texas high school student's arrest
On Wednesday night, a 15-year-old Texas boy posed as a girl on Twitter, authorities say, and began divulging details of a plan to bring a gun to school the next day, apparently as revenge for having...
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