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A vulnerability in popular Twitter app TweetDeck rendered the app practically useless on Wednesday. Thousands of users faced ceaseless popups and NSFW messages. But for such a frustrating “hack,” it...
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A humanitarian aid worker's fleshlight just made the news
With media outlets increasingly reliant on contributions from readers—you know, the sort of stuff that doesn’t get too rigorously vetted or fact-checked—it was probably just a matter of time before...
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ISIS militant takeover of Iraq plays out on Twitter, YouTube
While much of the mainstream media focuses on the fast-approaching World Cup, the Internet at large is slowly revealing the true horror of the recent invasion of Iraq by The Islamic State of Iraq and...
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Here’s how someone exploited the TweetDeck bug
It may have sounded like clapping, but that noise you heard yesterday was actually droves of computer programmers slapping their hands against their foreheads.TweetDeck was the reason for their...
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Rick Perry thinks homosexuality is just like alcoholism
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, no stranger to Internet scorn and mockery, has drawn the ire of online politicos once again, with controversial new comments comparing homosexuality to alcoholism. While...
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Twitter maps our favorite drugs in every region
Where can you find the sex capital of America? What about drugs and gambling? A new study tried to find out the answers to these burning questions by analyzing 451,484 tweets in order to determine...
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Twitter's most inventive spellings of 'World Cup'
The FIFA 2014 World Cup kicked off today, and a good portion of the planet is pretty excited. Everyone else is annoyed at all the excitement. Either way, folks are mashing their keyboards—or mocking...
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Aaron Paul is accidentally turning on Xbox consoles around the world
Owners of Xbox One consoles have taken to social media to complain that Aaron Paul, the actor best known for his role as Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad, is turning on their games console without their...
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How Julie Klausner turned her podcast into a one-woman show
On a recent episode of Julie Klausner’s podcast How Was Your Week, somewhere in between her dispatch from the trenches of Jessica Seinfeld’s Instagram and her sincere ode to Hero Cat, she exhales:...
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Louis C.K. is right: TMZ has gone too far
BY CHRIS OSTERNDORFLouis C.K. is mad. He’s mad because the common core made his daughters hate math. He’s mad that people don’t understand the surrealism inherent in his TV show. But right now, he’s...
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Iraq shuts down Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter
The Iraqi government has reportedly blocked access to Facebook, Google, and Twitter over fears that invading ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) militants are using these services and others...
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One man's purple pedicure became a beacon of hope for cancer research
Purple has always been Valerie Brosdal’s favorite color, but after a diagnosis with stage four lung cancer, the shade became an unexpected beacon of hope too. What began as a pedicure in hopes of...
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Twitter account brings secret Supreme Court revisions to light
If you've ever taken a civics class, you know that when it comes to the American legal system, the Supreme Court always has the final word. But sometimes, that word isn't so final. As the New York...
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Anthony Weiner just faved a story about sexting on Twitter
Former congressman Anthony Weiner—who, you may remember, resigned from Congress and lost a New York City mayoral bid after a long and excruciating saga involving prurient pics and sexually explicit...
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How Dave Chappelle interacts with fake Dave Chappelles on Twitter and Facebook
Being a celebrity is hard: Think about all the existential questions it brings up. For instance, Dave Chappelle recently sat down with Jimmy Fallon to talk about all the fake Dave Chappelles on...
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Twitter mobile users can now embed tweets inside tweets
Twitter's latest update might just explode the Internet. The social network appears to be testing a new feature on its mobile app that lets iOS and Android users embed tweets within other tweets....
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A Father's Day appreciation of always-embarrassing #DadTwitter
It’s been a while since “Shit My Dad Says” was the hottest feed on Twitter, but did you know that plenty of fathers still use the service, day in and day out, to relate their (mis)adventures in...
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Verne Troyer was searched by the TSA, and it was all caught on camera
On Sunday evening, Verne Troyer, best known for his role as the villain Mini-Me in the Austin Powers series, tweeted the following photo of him in a motorized wheelchair, getting his backside examined...
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Meet the interactive dress that turns transparent when you tweet
Most of us already know that to a certain extent, we’re completely naked and exposed on the Internet, allowing companies like Google and Facebook to access our personal data on a daily basis. Two NYU...
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Delta apologizes for lazy Ghana tweet
Delta has apologized for an exuberant World Cup tweet Monday evening, in which it had celebrated the U.S. men's national team victory over Ghana with an iconic symbol from each country: the Statue of...
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