SF News Twitter Ad Revenue Down, Stock Sinks, Talk Of Selling Company Revives Twitter is again in not-great shape following an earnings report and disappointing growth stats, proving at least for now that candidate-turned-Twitterer-in-Chief Trump didn't do a lot to help the 11-year-old social media platform.
SF News Reddit Bans Alt-Right Subreddit Over Revealing Of Personal Information In their unenviable, continuing quest to rid the site of its "most toxic" troll population, Reddit has just shut down two related subreddits, r/altright and r/alternativeright, over the repeated practice of
SF News Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Announces 'Completely New Approach To Abuse' The fatigued and much abused Twitter faithful are taking with a grain of salt Monday's announcement from CEO Jack Dorsey that the company is "taking a completely new approach to abuse" and that
SF News Trump May Be Helping Kill Twitter's Brand As President-Elect Trump wraps up his first news conference since July, and maybe the last he'll give until we're at war with someone, the San Francisco Chronicle gives us a somewhat speculative piece
SF News Twitter To Release Vine Camera App In Apparent Effort To Please No One When Twitter announced in October that it was shutting down Vine, fans of the six-second video-looping service lamented the forthcoming loss and various potential buyers — including Pornhub — came out of the woodwork. While
SF News As Calls To Ban Trump Grow, Twitter Provides Window Into President-Elect's Mind Supporters of Donald Trump were sent into an internet frenzy last week when Twitter officials stated that they would consider banning the president-elect should he violate the site's rules. But as the #BanTrump
SF News Twitter Unveils New Ways To Mute The Racist Trolls Who Ruined Twitter Though they admit they can't keep up with the flood of hatefulness and abuse that flows from a large swath of their user base especially the anonymous ones! Twitter announced Tuesday that they
SF News Are We All Dead? Facebook Bug Makes 'Memorial' Pages For Users Who Are Still Alive, Even Mark Zuckerberg On Facebook, I see dead people. Do you? Although the times might feel apocalyptic, I'm happy to report your friends aren't all dead (probably, unless you're a dinosaur). Or, at least, they're not
SF News Is Facebook To Blame For President-Elect Donald Trump? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg frequently talks about making the world "more open and connected," but what if his service, used by roughly 170 million Americans every day, is having the exact opposite effect?
SF News Snapchat Starts Selling Its Camera Spectacles Via Weird Vending Machines The line to buy @Snapchat's new @Spectacles here in Venice is more than 100 people deep. Lots of curious onlookers and impulse buyers. pic.twitter.com/8N2PT5Flim— Sean Ludwig (@seanludwig) November 10, 2016
SF News Instagram Stories Update Lets Users Embed Links, Tag People Love the new Instagram Stories feature, but bummed you can't tag your friend in that video of him drunkenly weeping at the election of Donald Trump? Think the Snapchat rip-off is great, but
SF News Vine Might Live On After All As Twitter Looks To Make A Deal Like an 11th hour call from the Governor, video-looping service Vine may have just received a last-minute stay of execution. TechCrunch reports that parent company Twitter is currently entertaining numerous offers and term
SF News Insurance Company To Offer Rate Discounts Based On Your Facebook Posts A UK auto insurer is seeking to get quick insights into your personality via snapshots of Facebook posts that would, they say, make people eligible for discounts, or cause them to get higher
SF News Pornhub Just Offered To Buy Vine When news arrived yesterday that Twitter intended to shutter the video looping service Vine, the internet loudly lamented the impending loss. The 6-second repeating videos have become a pop-culture staple since the company
SF News Disney And Salesforce Dropped Twitter Bids Because Of Trolls At least in the case of two high-profile suitors that briefly explored the possibility of acquiring Twitter, it was the platform's infamous culture of bullying, trolls, and generally aggressive idiocy that turned them
SF News Facebook Marketplace Already A Silk Road-Style S**tshow, Shortly After Launch Facebook Marketplace Goes Wrong: Sex, Guns and Baby Hedgehogs https://t.co/BiUSOGz1Wa— Varun Baker (@varunbaker) October 6, 2016 Facebook stepped into Craigslist territory Monday with the launch of Facebook Marketplace, a formal
SF News Snapchat Unveils Its Own Cheaper Google Glass, Called Spectacles Snapchat releases first hardware product, Spectacles https://t.co/M0krS3Q1JO via @WSJ— Snapchat (@Snapchat) September 24, 2016 Snapchat has entered the hardware market, everyone, and late Friday they unveiled Spectacles, a set of
SF News Twitter Lawsuit Alleges Company Misled Investors About Growth Prospects The latest trouble facing Twitter comes in the form of a lawsuit filed by an investor claiming the tech giant misled the public about its growth prospects and that huge swings in stock
SF News Starting Monday Twitter Will Loosen Character Limits For Links And Photos Have a lot to tell the world, but the man is holding you back? Limiting your musings to a mere 140 characters including links and pics? Well then, you're in luck. The man,
SF News Twitter Board To Mull Possible Buyout This Week, And More Layoffs May Be Looming Twitter, the social media company vilified by many for its tax break in SF but also seen by many others as a bellwether for the tech industry as a whole, is reportedly going
SF News Instagram Is Finally Letting You Zoom In On All Those Brunch Pics Everyone loves Instagram — the social media platform's algorithmically ordered feed and ripping off of Snapchat makes it the perfect place to view days-old photos of brunch or videos of people's dogs. However, ceaselessly
SF News Twitter's New 'Quality Filter' Will Let You Shut Out The Trolls Twitter has a troll problem. That the social-media service has become a tool for those wishing to harass others is well documented, as are the company's seemingly ineffective attempts to combat the toxicity
Arts & Entertainment Snapchat Once Again Proves Its Racial Cluelessness, Removes Slanty-Eyed Filter @Snapchat @snapchatsupport idk if u realize, but this filter is yellowface and u should take it down pic.twitter.com/MLSHz0Bbkl— lia (@limb_light) August 9, 2016 Much like they did on 4/
SF News SFPD Figures It Should Probably Get A Social Media Policy Following Celeste Guap Scandal The union representing officers with the San Francisco Police Department and top department brass have come to an agreement on just how, exactly, its members should and should not be using social media.
SF News Twitter Is Not Shutting Down Over Cyberbullying, But Also Can't Do Much About Cyberbullying A rumor was spreading around Twitter Thursday, along with a requisite hashtag (#SaveTwitter), that Twitter would be shutting down in 2017 over the issue of cyberbullying. As CNet reports, this rumor is unfounded,
