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My dead coworker just followed me on Twitter
Everybody loves a good ghost story. When I was young, I used to force my grandmother to repeat the same tale to me about a long, hairy arm that followed you wherever you went. The arm wasn’t attached...
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Twitter is finally figuring out how to turn data into dollars
Twitter’s first earnings call didn’t go as well as it could have: stock prices fell nearly as hard as Woody Allen’s reputation after investors got worried the blue bird wasn’t growing quickly enough....
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#SoWhiteOutside is the funniest part of this awful snowstorm
Is it safe to say that #BlackTwitter is the most original, funniest, and all-around best Twitter? I have proof: the hot new hashtag#SoWhiteOutside, which turns the occasion of this week’s blizzard...
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This Olympian rescued stray puppiess in Sochi and won our hearts
For one Olympian, a medal may not be the only thing he wins in Sochi. Freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy already won the silver medal today as part of Team USA’s sweep in slopestyle skiing, but over the...
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Twitter users post 10,000 racist slurs every day, study finds
Just how racist is Twitter? About .00007 percent racist, according to a new study. But that still adds up to a disconcerting volume of words used as religious, ethnic, or racial slurs. There’s some...
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Unfollow Friday: BuzzFeed edition
Nimrod Kamer has been called the "worst person on Twitter." In this weekly installment, he unfollows the best people on the ‘net, the ones with 10K followers or more (fair game). He might loathe some...
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How Twitter is tearing down academia's Ivory Tower
Twitter has always had a vocal community of academics and intellectuals. You might not know it from all the noise and trolling, but there are people using the platform as a way to enlighten their...
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Dude regrets livetweeting date with transgender woman 'in the name of comedy'
Being a good comedian often means keeping an open mind and seeking out new experiences. That’s probably why L.A. podcasterRyan Broems decided to venture out of his comfort zone—we just wish he hadn’t...
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Edinburgh City Police are nailing Valentine's Day on Twitter
While most of us will spend Valentine’s Day scrambling to find a last-minute gift or moping over the single life, it’s business as usual for law enforcement. That point was poetically made in an...
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Unfollow Friday: Four actresses to ditch
Nimrod Kamer has been called the "worst person on Twitter." In this weekly installment, he unfollows the best people on the ‘net, the ones with 10K followers or more (fair game). He might loathe some...
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Pornhub gave the Internet the best gift ever today
What’s the one thing better than having Valentine’s Day sex with your significant other? Watching porn and having Valentine’s Day sex with yourself! And what’s better than watching porn and having...
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In the era of the Internet celebrity, fans are just another hazard of the job
John “TotalBiscuit” Bain is a YouTube star with the type of ratings CNN might envy: He has more than 1.5 million subscribers, and his videos regularly see hundreds of thousands or millions of views....
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@Drawnyourtweet is turning Twitter into a picture book, 140 characters at a time
There’s a lot of beauty contained within the Internet, but there’s no arguing that text-based pixels take up a lot of that space. Apps like Instagram and sites like Flickr certainly break up the...
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Are these tweets from Olympic athletes or their agents?
The Sochi Winter Olympics have been a great source of entertaining tweets. Athletes have been busy sharing behind-the-scenes photos and commentary on what’s happening on the ground in Sochi. It’s been...
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The self-fulfilling prophecy that ensures everything sucks
If you have a Twitter account and look hard enough, it’s easy to believe the worst about the world. Should you be looking for something to hate, social media will easily help you find it. You can type...
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The @BarackObama Twitter account is not who you think it is
When a celebrity or politician runs their own Twitter account, it’s usually obvious. Kanye West’s all-caps, emphatic tweets come in spurts and are clearly authored by the artist. Ashton Kutcher’s Joe...
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Some maniac is tweeting the film 'Top Gun' frame by frame
The Twitter account @555uhz, poised to become one of the greatest Internet mysteries of our time, has a fairly simple schtick: It doesn’t follow anyone, and every half hour, it posts a still from the...
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Pussy Riot members tweet police-wagon selfie while detained in Sochi
Never much for steering clear of trouble, Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina of the infamous Russian political punk outfit Pussy Riot ran afoul of law enforcement while preparing to debut a new...
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What 'Baboon Fart Story' says about Amazon and ebook publishing
Critics are calling it a modern Dadaist masterpiece. So why did Amazon remove yesterday’s brief bestseller, an ebook called Baboon Fart Story? Was it because it was a social experiment designed to...
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At Fashion Week, there's the Twitter-verified and everyone else
Fashion people are obsessed with being verified on Twitter. It’s god’s digi-gift falling upon you via an off-the-cuff DM, just when you thought you’ll never get it. That's what I found on when...
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