The Lakers are so bad, Kobe Bryant unfollowed his entire team
It's hard watching the Los Angeles Lakers. Between injuries and poor management, the former NBA powerhouse looks the Washington Generals on the court, led by the ghost of Pau Gasol. How bad has it...
View ArticleRussian Embassy denies deploying troops to Ukraine
As terrifying as the situation in Ukraine is—government assaulting protesters, protesters overthrowing their government—at least it seemed we could agree that Russia had moved troops into the country....
View ArticleThis guy ate a cockroach sandwich, so he's waging Twitter war against Subway
If wilted ingredients, stale bread, and some ungodly chemical odor (seriously, what is that bread-like smell?) weren’t enough to dissuade you from eating at Subway, this’ll probably do it. After...
View ArticleHeat fans dominate Twitter as LeBron James scores 61
The Miami Heat walloped the Charlotte Bobcats. LeBron James stole the show. Par for the course, right?Not quite. First LeBron James tied teammate Dwyane Wade’s second-best franchise record of 55...
View ArticleA college student tricked the Internet into believing he poisoned his friend
Take a look at these images and tell us: Did someone actually poison his friend and livetweet it, or is this all an elaborate joke? These tweets were posted last Sunday night by a college student at...
View ArticleFunny or Die is behind that viral hoverboard video
First there was the Tumblr that disseminated false Back to the Future trivia every single day, and now this: videos from some outfit called HUVr Tech, which claims to have invented an...
View ArticleHow to commit Twitter suicide
Twitter Seppuku. It’s a thing. I don’t mean a trend, but an emerging trend. It’s nothing to do with threatening to physically harm oneself in a series of sobbing tweets. In essence, it’s a Twitter felo...
View ArticleA Texas man and his 2 dogs are on a mission to get more retweets than Ellen
Texas man Terry Shipman would like to invite you to help him surpass Ellen DeGeneres and her Samsung-sponsored Oscar selfie as Twitter’s Most Retweeted. Let's see if we can beat the Oscar re-tweets!...
View ArticleTwitter is being used to find HIV outbreaks
Here’s some crazy shiz to wrap up your Wednesday: A team of researchers at UCLA is using Twitter and other social media platforms to track HIV outbreaks in major cities. In a recent study, the team...
View ArticleShaq will follow you on Instagram if you crowdfund his terrible video game
Let’s all agree, right now, right here, that celebrity crowdfunding campaigns are trashcan tripe that should be engulfed in wildfire and sent to No Thank You Island. Crowdfunding should be a...
View Article10 things you need to know about #StreetHarassment
BY SORAYA L. CHEMALY This week on Twitter, Hollaback (an organization dedicated to ending street harassment) hosted a Tweetup using the hashtag #harassmentis. The topic of harassment has spurred a...
View ArticlePorn is now outlawed on Vine
If you didn't think a teen making savory love to a Hot Pocket would have a lasting effect on the Internet, you were mistaken, my friend. On Vine, the six-second video service, the porn days are over....
View ArticleMegan Amram and the fine art of Twitter comedy
Megan Amram has mastered the art of comedy on Twitter. Her tweets are perfectly conceptualized jokes that benefit from Twitter’s 140-character delivery and don’t focus on current events or reference...
View ArticleWomen in sci-fi are #SoWeary of Hugo Awards backlash
The outcry over LonCon's decision to ask controversial British talk show host Jonathan Ross to host the Hugos just won't end. After a week filled with accusations of bullying and harassment on all...
View ArticleThe most cringeworthy quotes from SXSW Interactive so far
While plenty of people are at Austin's South by Southwest festival right now just to see films and live music, some 30,000 arrived with an eye toward what's called SXSW Interactive. For the...
View ArticleHow the adult community is responding to Vine's porn ban
Since its launch more than a year ago, social video app Vine has had a reputation for being porn-friendly. Even when Vine made an effort to tighten its restrictions by blocking porn-related hashtags,...
View ArticleFemale comic dropped from bill because there were already 'too many women'
A female comedian named Jenny Collier has revealed she was recently dropped from a stand-up bill at a club in Haslemere, Surrey, U.K. because there were already “too many women” on the bill. Aaaaaaand...
View ArticleJustin Bieber's Twitter was hacked and it almost ended the world
If you follow Justin Bieber on Twitter, you know he usually tweets pithy, elegant, Dorothy Parker-esque bon mots such as these: Late night with the fellas— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) March 4, 2014...
View ArticleMeet the woman behind @princessthot
If you subscribe to @MagicRecs, tonight some of you may have gotten a recommendation to follow @princessthot. Apparently she's very wealthy and very into tweeting and very into helping the less...
View ArticleHere's how easy it is to be a fake teen millionaire on the Internet
It’s Saturday night, you’re bored on the Internet, and someone is giving away money on Twitter. Of course you’re going to retweet her hashtag, even if there’s a 99 percent chance that the whole...
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