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What happens when women report abuse on Twitter
If you believe the media, this week has opened a critical discussion about abuse on social media, specifically on Twitter, in the wake of Zelda Williams’ public statements about leaving the service...
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Twitter folk hero @DadBoner is coming to Comedy Central
In a Twitter-to-TV deal that we hope fares better than $h*! My Dad Says, Comedy Central has ordered an animated pilot of @DadBoner, based on the irreverent feed of the same name. Deadline reports that...
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Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger face blowback for pro-Israel...
You know who never, ever needs to publicly weigh in on the Middle East? Sylvester Stallone. Justin Bieber’s manager. And the guy who directed The Exorcist. But hey, they won’t let that stop them:...
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Napa Valley earthquake causes devastating loss of wine
The 6.0 magnitude earthquake that rocked Napa County early this morning was the strongest the San Francisco Bay Area has felt since the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989. And despite some reported...
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Suge Knight shooting sparks rap conspiracy renaissance
Police have confirmed that rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was shot at a West Hollywood nightclub early Sunday morning along with two other partygoers. Now Twitter is trying to piece the puzzle...
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How Facebook ruined your Twitter feed
If you’ve used Twitter’s mobile app recently, you may have noticed random tweets from people you could have sworn you weren’t following. You weren’t just imagining things: Twitter was gaslighting you,...
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How the growing generation gap is changing the face of fandom
Earlier this month, two fan conventions came to London: Nine Worlds and the World Science Fiction Convention, commonly know as Worldcon.Worldcon is in its 72nd year, a huge old dinosaur (or perhaps an...
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The 15 days the Internet wasn't paying attention to Gaza
BY EMMETT RENSINIt took fifteen days for the cease-fire to collapse. It’ll take a few more to know how bad the fallout is this time. In the next few days, we’ll learn whether the latest round of rocket...
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For rising authors, Twitter is a mine field
If you’re an aspiring novelist, the last thing you need is another thing to be neurotic about. But as I learned at London’s WorldCon and Nine Worlds fan conventions earlier this month, authors are...
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How a New York Times obituary sparked a Twitter frenzy
Quick: How many angels do you know personally? Zero? Yeah, I guess nobody’s perfect. In fact, that’s the kind of wisdom so accepted you don’t need to stick it in a newspaper article. Nevertheless, in...
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Impossible Twitter bet gets a little helping hand from Michael Sam
Never underestimate what people will bet on. Especially on social media. A football fan in New York who goes by the name Fisher King (no doubt a pseudonym) made a bet on Twitter that if Michael Sam...
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Facebook's giant Mentions Box debuts at tonight's Emmys
The 2014 Emmys are tonight, and in addition to fielding questions on the red carpet, celebrities will now be asked to interact with Facebook via a giant “Mentions Box.”Facebook and Access Hollywood...
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If it's not a sponsored tweet, why bother being nice?
Game of Thrones’ Arya Stark is huge on Twitter. This week, the 17-year-old actress who plays her, Maisie Williams, decided to spare 42 characters and thank a company called Pizza Express for its...
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R.L. Stine announces he's 'killing off more teenagers' with the return of...
Big news for anyone who grew up in the ’90s and had a morbid fascination with the slumber party massacres and evil cheerleaders of R.L. Stine: The author of the Fear Street series announced on Twitter...
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Fans go ballistic on NFL over Josh Gordon's suspension
The NFL's season-long suspension of Cleveland Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon for failing another drug test was upheld after a lengthy appeal process. (The league also kept him out of two games last...
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Canada totally just trolled Russia on Twitter
If Russia stages a stealth invasion of Canada this week, it will likely be in response to a snarky tweet that the normally friendly North American nation hurled toward the former Soviet Union today....
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What I learned about my sad, sad life from Twitter Analytics
As a “New York City media professional,” a phrase I cannot possibly type without ironic scare quotes if I don’t want to spew all over my keyboard, I use Twitter quite often. Or at least, I use Twitter...
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The cost of absolute free speech? Less speech
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” That statement, often misattributed to Voltaire, gives perfect voice to a core belief that has defined democratic...
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Here's why Facebook isn't as democratic as you think
Personal opinions, unpopular and otherwise, seem like the building blocks of the Internet: Wherever you go, people are talking passionately about things. But the plural of anecdotes is not data, and...
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These Rob Ford fans may just give him a second term
Disgraced Toronto mayor Rob Ford, who was caught on video smoking crack cocaine and subsequently embarrassed the city of Toronto in numerous other ways, might actually win reelection in October. If he...
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