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Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo now consulting on HBO's 'Silicon Valley'
Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is doing pretty well after leaving the company in June. The tech executive is now in the writers' room at HBO's Silicon Valley. Costolo has reportedly been spending...
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People are freaking out about an ISIS member who looks like Drake
Sometimes you get lucky and come across celeb lookalikes in your everyday life, like when you freak out because a woman on the train looks just like Gwyneth Paltrow or some guy on Tinder sort of looks...
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Rapper live-tweets cops showing up at his Airbnb after neighbor reports robbery
You know when you're just chilling out at your Airbnb and the neighbors call the cops on you? This apparently happened to D.C. rapper and producer STEFisDOPE, aka Stefan Grant, who was renting an...
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Taylor Swift is in a love triangle with AIDS drug profiteer Martin Shkreli
By all indications, Radar Online today misreported a story about Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris breaking up over an illicit “happy ending” massage. Sure was a good headline, though! Exclamation...
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Deadspin, SB Nation Twitter accounts suspended after NFL complains
Two of the biggest sports websites had their Twitter accounts shut down on Monday night, and apparently, it's at least partially the fault of the NFL.The accounts of Deadspin and SB Nation GIF—an arm...
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Twitter to lay off more than 300 employees
Twitter will lay off up to 336 employees, or 8 percent of its staff, the company's CEO Jack Dorsey announced on Tuesday. The layoffs come on the heels of Dorsey's appointment to CEO earlier this month....
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If you want change in Washington, tweet at your congressperson
To the casual observer, the political machinations of Washington, D.C., can seem a world removed from the daily lives of ordinary Americans. When studies have shown that the only voices that really...
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Teens took the PSAT and immediately turned its secret content into memes
Back in my day—when us high schoolers would finish standardized tests after being explicitly told by the prompter to not, they repeated, not discuss the contents of the exam with one another—we'd nod...
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4 ways to eat healthy like me, a beloved millennial food disruptor
According to Fortune, millennials (hip, cool people like me) are driving an $18 billion food revolution. That math doesn't really add up because millennials are also the brokest generation ever, but...
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This horrifying goat-man mascot wants you to start recycling
A new recycling mascot in Niagara Falls, New York, appears custom-built to go viral for all the wrong reasons—which may, in the end, be a win.Sure, young children have likely already been traumatized...
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Poultry company has a live chicken running its Twitter account
You've heard of chicken scratch, but now prepare yourself for #chickentweet.Meet Betty the chicken. Her favorite movie is Chicken Run, her natural feather-color is a golden brown—oh, and she helps run...
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Why it's so hard to debunk Facebook conspiracy theories
Lies spread fast on Facebook. Once they do, it’s nearly impossible to change anyone's mind.The accusation that Jade Helm, a U.S. military training exercise, was the beginning of a civil war originated...
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Chris Hardwick and '@midnight' host a #MobyDickathon on Periscope
For almost 24 hours now, Chris Hardwick and friends of his show @midnight have been taking shifts reading the entirety of Moby Dick live on Periscope. They're calling it #MobyDickathon. According to...
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Finnish police want people to rat out cheap pizzerias
Calling all pizza rats: the Finnish police want YOU.In a bizarre campaign to crack down on tax-evading businesses, authorities in Finland are asking people to report establishments that sell pizza for...
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Tony the Tiger is back—and he's in some very depressing videos
We talk a lot about things we see on the Internet "ruining" our childhoods, but a series of fake ads featuring Tony the Tiger are taking aim at adulthood. Starting Oct. 7, videos began appearing on a...
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New research shows Twitter drastically under-reports its censorship
Twitter “radically under-reports” censorship by Turkey, one of the world's most prolific Internet censors, according to new research from the Association of Computing Machinery.Rocked by domestic and...
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Twitter joins CISA opposition ahead of Senate vote on the controversial cyber...
Twitter announced Monday that it opposed a bill to increase the sharing of cyber threat data between government and industry, warning of flaws in the bill's privacy protections just hours before the...
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Chrissy Teigen's Instagram backlash is the BS pregnant women deal with every day
Sports Illustrated model Chrissy Teigen recently announced her pregnancy on Instagram, posting a picture of her burgeoning baby bump. The caption read: “Somebody is early to the party” with three...
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Taylor Swift, Hillary Clinton, and the business of being 'liked'
If the Internet were high school, Taylor Swift would be the most popular girl in your grade. In addition to her enormous 65 million Twitter followers, she’s amassed another 51.7 million fans on...
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The infinite sadness of abandoned Twitter accounts for Hollywood flops
Twitter was never meant to be used this way. It’s a social, micro-blogging platform for interaction, friendship, and self-promotion. The idea of adopting a Twitter account for a temporary three-month...
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