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5 big ways Twitter has evolved through the years
When Twitter first started, hashtags were a little-known chat room quirk and Justin Bieber was just some Canadian kid on YouTube. The microblogging startup that began as a side project for young...
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Brad Pitt will bring 'Anonymous vs. Steubenville' to the big screen
Hacktivism is on course to get the Hollywood treatment, and from a team fresh off a stunning sociopolitical success. Producers Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner, whose Plan B Entertainment...
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Turkey to Twitter: Open an office here and we'll lift the ban
A spokesperson for Turkey's ruling party said the country would be happy to immediately stop its ban on Twitter and YouTube—if they're willing to set up shop there. Hüseyin Çelik, spokesperson for...
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Here are the Web's worst April Fools' jokes
The first day of April used to be an occasion on which you were shocked that mom didn’t taste all that salt you poured into her coffee. Now it’s a day to distrust the Internet more than usual, as...
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Twitter now lets you search by date range
I spent more than half-an-hour last week searching Twitter for a hilarious post I wanted to quote but couldn’t quite remember. That's because the site only would let users search in reverse...
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'Twin Peaks' gets its long-awaited third season—sort of
Twin Peaks may have been cancelled 23 years ago, but its world lives on in a Twitter fiction community called @EnterTheLodge. Beginning on March 25, “1989,” this third season of Twin Peaks develops in...
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Adulterous actor's apology to wife becomes most shared post on China's Twitter
Imagine if Twitter had been around back in 2005, when Brad Pitt dumped Jennifer Aniston for Angelina Jolie (God, even typing that makes me feel creaky and old). If Brad had apologized to Jen on...
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Twitter can map America's terrible beer preferences
No matter how many times huge beer companies spend a fortune on Super Bowl commercials, beer preferences in the U.S. haven’t coalesced into a national devotion to only Bud Light or Miller Light....
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Emojis will finally work for desktop Twitter users
For Twitter users on mobile, emoji are no big thing. But for people who still tweet via desktop, emoji have long registered as boring, blank boxes instead of the colorful little icons they truly are....
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Kendall Jenner did not just take 'bold' braids to a 'new,' 'epic' level
Earlier today, trendcasters at Marie Claire broke some very important style news: Kendall Jenner takes bold braids to a new epic level: http://t.co/IMPn41xorhpic.twitter.com/Cgp7X8CfNg— Marie Claire...
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Now you can immortalize your tweets in wood and metal
They say that nothing you put on the Internet can ever be erased. Now a new company is taking this to the next level.#PermanentRetweet, based in Austin, Texas, is offering to make any one of your...
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A selfie interview with Vice cofounder Gavin McInnes
Gavin McInnes is the only known Tea Party enthusiast who has anything to do with Vice, hipness, or Williamsburg. In an old interview in the New York Press, McInnes said that he was pleased that most...
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Turkey lifts Twitter ban
Turkey has lifted its ban of Twitter. On Wednesday, a Turkish constitutional court ruled that the country’s ban on the microblogging network breached freedom of expression."Everyone has the right to...
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The best of #Buttflix, our favorite Netflix-themed hashtag about butts
There are many who claim that Twitter and social media can’t serve as effective vehicles of social activism because they’re degrading the level of intelligent discourse in this country. These people...
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You can now send messages via Vine
The next big thing for video-snippet service Vine is a private messaging feature that marks a foray into territory dominated by Snapchat and WhatsApp—visual texting, you could say. Or maybe a...
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Which social network offers the best perks to its VIPs?
Everyone knows that famous, important people are more famous, and more important than the rest of us. They are more beautiful, talented, and richer than we are for a reason! And being the superior...
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Court throws out Turkey's YouTube ban
A Turkish court has overturned that country's controversial ban on YouTube, one day after a similar prohibition against Twitter was rejected. Since March 27, the Turkish telecommunications authority...
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The solution to celebrity sex scandals is stupidly simple
It might seem innocent enough—a “thanks” here and a “love you too” there. But DMing your fans never ends well. So here’s a proposal: Don’t do it. Nobody is too famous or well-loved enough to keep...
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This Twitter Casanova claims to sleep with 200 women a year
Since James Franco’s flirtatious Instagram DMs to an underage fan were leaked earlier this week, he’s probably realized that his online pickup skills aren’t as hot as he thought they were. So maybe he...
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A Twitter employee actually livetweeted the birth of her daughter
We’ve already seen a livetweeted vasectomy, livetweeted family death, and a livetweeted emergency-room trip with an object lodged inside… well, you'll see. Creating a running log of everything that's...
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