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Billy Eichner: the man who shouted until the Internet listened
Billy Eichner is having a good year. The 35-year-old comedian has a recurring role on NBC’s Parks and Recreation, and his game show Billy on the Street is entering its third season on the cable...
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The difference between the two trending hashtags for the kidnapped Nigerian...
Over the past week, the hashtag #RealMenDon’tBuyGirls has started appearing alongside #BringBackOurGirls, the social media campaign to release more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by the...
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Toronto police are using Twitter to solve 500 unsolved murders
A Toronto police officer is spearheading a campaign to solve cold cases, and using social media to look for leads and drum up interest. Det.-Sgt. Brian Borg has created a Twitter account named...
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No, your Facebook friend's house isn't on fire
Quick heads up—if you start getting Facebook messages like the one below, your friend’s account has been hacked as part of a doggedly persistent phishing scam. One of my Facebook friends got hacked...
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How a three-man indie band from Glasgow caused a Morrissey meltdown
Morrissey nearly cancelled a sold-out performance Thursday night in California in a strange saga that played out over social media. Glasgow’s Paws was reportedly notified early Thursday that its...
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Here's who should be de-verified on Twitter
Twitter has many verified users. We trust them to be honest and give us a sense of truthfulness amongst the unverified masses. The reality is that many of Twitter’s verified users have sinned, and a...
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Twitter now has a mute button
For the past few weeks, tech blogs have been speculating that Twitter is set to introduce a new “mute” feature, which would allow users to temporarily—or permanently—muzzle someone by blocking their...
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Forget studying—students hope 15,000 retweets will get them out of finals
It’s finals season, and high school students across the country are cramming the only way they know how: By making bets with teachers that if they get a certain number of retweets, their final will be...
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The Internet knows why Beyoncé's sister attacked Jay Z
Step aside, hot celebrity beef coming through: TMZ has released video of what appears to be a physical altercation between R&B singer Solange Knowles and Jay Z in an elevator as they departed a...
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Ann Coulter tries to mock #BringBackOurGirls, Twitter responds with Photoshop
Well, at least one good thing came out of conversatives mocking the #BringBackOurGirls campaign: Ann Coulter’s shame. The pundit, like many of her GOP cohorts, took to Twitter to have a little fun and...
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Republicans' fight against 'Bring Back Our Girls' isn't just misguided—it's...
BY CHRIS OSTERNDORF Republicans aren’t strangers to social media. But when it comes to Nigeria's kidnapped schoolgirls, some are questioning the power of Twitter to get things done. Last week, Politico...
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Twitter is finally giving us the tools to fight the trolls
“Don’t feed the trolls” is frustrating advice for people who get harassed online. Getting attacked with abusive comments and not calling people out on it can make even the thickest-skinned user feel...
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Texas city councilman schools the Weather Channel on Twitter
You may have lost track of Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns after his emotional “It Gets Better” speech went viral back in 2010. What’s the Texas politician up to now? Oh, you know, just waging a...
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Twitter might start telling you someone embedded your tweet
Tweets are set up to be shared. Within Twitter, users can re-tweet stuff they like. To take a tweet somewhere else, Twitter provides an embed option, so people and organizations (like the Daily Dot)...
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Embracing the silence: Here is how you need to use Twitter's mute button
Look, I don’t want to tell you how to live, but there is a right way and a wrong way to do certain things. No one should buy smooth peanut butter over crunchy. It’s morally wrong to use the exit lane...
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A dislike button could be just what the Internet needs—as long as it doesn't...
Back when I blogged as Valleywag, the prime ankle-biter of the startup world, Digg founder Kevin Rose told me that he was considering a secret feature. Users were over-reporting content they didn't...
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A scientific explanation for why we fav on Twitter
For people coming to Twitter from Facebook, it’s easy to see the "favorite" button as analogous to Facebook’s ‘like’ button. It shows you’ve read or appreciated something, but it’s not as intense as...
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This restaurant lets you pay by Instagramming your food
Some chefs throw people out of their restaurants for taking photos of their food, but one foodmaker is taking a different approach to posting food pics on social media. A series of pop-up restaurants...
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High schoolers in hot water over a drinking game called 'Jews vs. Nazis'
In case you were in any doubt that elaborate drinking games are a pastime enjoyed by historically insensitive goons, yes, “Jews vs. Nazis” beer pong is a real thing. It’s just like normal beer pong,...
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Can a hashtag convince you to pay for porn?
Last week, adult performers started tweeting the hashtag #PayForYourPorn, urging their followers to buy clips on their websites instead of watching them for free on tube sites: Just blocked someone...
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