Infinity reasons not to download Chris Brown's new app
Team Breezy must be on cloud nine right now. Chris Brown has a new smartphone app that is all about him, all the time, forever and ever. The app's billed as a way to keep up with the singer 24/7,...
View ArticleTeen developer codes her way to a Twitter internship
Jennie Lamere's anti-spoiler Twitter app just won her a pretty sweet summer internship. Lamere hit headlines earlier this month after she created Twivo, which blocks out certain keywords to protect...
View ArticleTweekender: Mario Balotelli's dog deserves her own Twitter account
With hundreds of millions of tweets per day, it’s impossible to follow everything happening on Twitter. Every Friday, the Daily Dot rounds up notable Twitter news and stories from the past week—in 140...
View ArticleDan Brown's "Inferno" meets its match in fiery parody @Nunferno
Dan Brown just published a new novel. It’s hard to miss, what with there being a tower of Infernos beside every supermarket checkout. Soon, your mom and co-workers will be asking you what you thought...
View ArticleTeens really are getting sick of Facebook
There have been rumblings about Facebook's teen crisis for months—some fairly reliable, others not so much. Thanks to an exhaustive study from the Pew Research Center, we've finally got pretty solid...
View ArticleJose Canseco tweets rape accuser's name and personal info
That’s certainly one way to get in front of bad press. Former MLB star Jose Canseco—whose popular Twitter account is full of off-color jokes, typos, and aimless feuds with other celebrities like Shaq...
View ArticleYour Twitter account just got a bit more secure
After months of high-profile hacks, Twitter has announced new features to keep accounts more secure.In a blog post, product security team member Jim O’Leary unveiled an updated login verification...
View ArticleWatch these Vines of a man playing guitar during brain implant surgery
Science is awesome, isn't it? Not only has it allowed humans to be fitted with brain pacemakers, but it's allowed the rest of us to watch those intricate procedures as they occur, thanks to Twitter,...
View Article"I haven't been fully honest" text prank could end your relationship
If you're going to tell your partner you haven't been completely truthful with them, you'd best be honest about it. Comedian Nathan Fielder, fresh off his success in getting followers to...
View ArticleHigh school senior quotes @Horse_ebooks in yearbook
Around nine months ago, a Tumblr user named Emily made a promise to her followers. If she received more than 500 notes on one of her posts, she pledged to use a tweet from @Horse_ebooks, Twitter's...
View ArticleHere’s what every geotagged tweet looks like on the world map
We get it, Twitter. You see a lot of activity. Hundreds of millions of tweets per day, we're told. Those tweets have to come from somewhere, though, and many of them are geotagged with specific...
View Article10 shockingly funny life lessons in 1 minute
Max Burlingame pulls off more laughs in six seconds than The Hangover Part III manages in nearly two hours. His raunchy how-to tutorials on Vine are vulgar, shocking, and frantic, with a lot of blood...
View Article@HuffPoSpoilers delivers all the news and none of the clickbait
Alex Mizrahi reads the Huffington Post so you don't have to. In August 2012, fed up with the online news aggregator and its penchant for constantly tweeting clickbait from its multiple microblogging...
View ArticleWhat happens when you try to "expose" Planned Parenthood on Twitter
Planned Parenthood. You know those dastardly healthcare providers have something to hide. Luckily, pro-life Twitter users are here to uncover their dirty secrets. Using the #ExposePP hashtag, Planned...
View ArticleRacist chants at soccer player spur even worse Twitter backlash
For a while now, Soccer, racism, and Twitter have been a Venn diagram of cultural fail that has plagued the sport on an ongoing basis. While it's not as if the problem hasn't received a great deal of...
View ArticleNuevo León law would strictly criminalize cyberbulling
Residents of the Mexican state of Nuevo León may want to think twice before posting something mean or catty on Facebook. It could land them in jail for three years. Last week, Nuevo León lawmakers...
View ArticleAt least 25 Turkish protesters arrested for organizing on Twitter
A week after protests erupted across Turkey, the government is cracking down on the real criminals: influential Twitter users. Twenty-nine in the city of Izmir were held overnight for “inciting riots...
View ArticleReddit helps track down Thursday singer Geoff Rickly's stolen phone
Geoff Rickly, singer of on-hiatus post-hardcore band Thursday, was robbed at gunpoint. He lost his "iPad, iPhone, passport, wallet, cards, rent money in cash (long story). Also my medicine for intense...
View ArticleThese are the funniest cops on Twitter
Spanish police have figured out how to get the public on their side: make them laugh. A lighthearted Twitter account run by the national force is about to hit 500,000 followers. It's helped the force...
View ArticlePolice bust Thursday singer's phone thief after Reddit manhunt
Redditors and fans of Thursday tried to find the man who robbed singer Geoff Rickly. But it was good old-fashioned police work and some stupidity on the suspect's part that saved the day. Rickly told...
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