SF News Instagram Introduces 'Stories,' Essentially Copying Snapchat If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then Instagram, the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, is absolutely fawning over rival Snapchat, whose ephemeral photo and video sharing service has grown into a
SF News Twitter Launches Cheesy Ad Campaign To Explain What Twitter Is Are you part of the 90 percent of the planet that, according to Twitter, recognizes the Twitter brand? If so, are you also one of the huge number of people that, again according
SF News Outer Sunset Man Named As Alleged Twitter Troll Seeking Beheading Of SFPD's Acting Chief An Outer Sunset man was taken into custody Tuesday, after police say he was responsible for a tweet calling for the beheading of acting San Francisco Police department Chief Toney Chaplin. It was
SF News Criticizing Police On Social Media Leads To Arrests Following Dallas Shooting With police departments in San Francisco and around the country still working out how to best respond to the July 7 mass shooting in Dallas, some officers have taken to proactively arresting people
SF News [Update] Facebook's 'News Curators' Choose Trending Topics, Suppress Conservative News, Say Former Employees Gizmodo's been blowing the door open on Facebook's increasingly influential Trending news area, in which topics popular at any given moment on the network are shown, typically the top three of them anyway,
Arts & Entertainment Instagram Is Testing Out A New, Whiter Look Instagram сменил дизайн на чёрно‑белый#эфир https://t.co/HPbevQcl4M pic.twitter.com/TC6aPAKKlc— The Village (@villagemsk) April 27, 2016 Your Insta might look a little different soon, according to a leaked
SF News Has Twitter's Slowed Growth (And Layoffs) Brought Apartment Rents Down? Many of us not in the tech industry saw Twitter's small round of layoffs last fall, and their decision in January to sublet some of their office space in their Mid-Market headquarters as
SF News Facebook May Let You Add A Tip Jar To Your Posts In a move that looks like it's both an effort to compete with user-revenue-generating platforms like YouTube and to boost sharing on the platform overall, Facebook appears to be considering options for allowing
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 Fail: Snapchat's Bob Marley Filter Puts Everyone In Blackface UPDATE: Snapchat says Bob Marley blackface filter was approved by his estate to use on 420 https://t.co/6dEoisUIAQ pic.twitter.com/B3CJ2VfeDU— The Next Web (@TheNextWeb) April 20, 2016 Interesting choice,
Arts & Entertainment Video: Mark Zuckerbro Explains 'The Facebook' In 2005 In 2005, Facebook was in its infancy and Mark Zuckerberg was in his early '20s — a period of young nerdbro-dom he signifies with a traditional red solo cup. Of course, the Facebook we
SF News Facebook Using Artificial Intelligence To Add Photo Captions For The Visually Impaired Facebook yesterday announced a new service designed to assist the millions of visually impaired people who use one of its many products on a daily basis. Called automatic alternative text, according to the
SF News Instagram Throws Exercised Users A Bone, Increases Video Length To Full Minute Just days after every brand/celeb you follow on Instagram (as well as some "normal" civilians) had a collective meltdown over upcoming alterations to the social media site's feed algorithm, the company is
SF News Facebook Knows Your Race, Sends You Targeted Ads It's a tale of two trailers, as Business Insider juxtaposes them. Both are for Straight Outta Compton, but one is for audiences presumed familiar with NWA and one is for audiences who presumably
SF News Facebook Users Report Over A Million 'Violations' Every Day With over 1.5 billion users, Facebook is a teeming digital place. And so it is perhaps unsurprising that it teems with posts that piss other users off. This fact, which likely comports
SF News 'Likes' Are Passé: Facebook's 5 New 'Reaction' Buttons Are Here Social media and advertising giant Facebook today rolled out its long-in-the-works update to one of its defining features: The "Like" button. After limited testing in select countries, Facebook settled on five new reaction
SF News 'Normal People' Find Twitter Confusing An 63-year old Atlanta retiree doesn't want to use Twitter anymore because the host of an MSNBC show doesn't respond to his tweets. MAKES SENSE TO ME! In a Guardian article entitled, "Why
Arts & Entertainment As Facebook Turns 12, It Reminds Us We Are Only 3.5 Degrees Separated From Everyone Else Six degrees of separation? That theory is long dead. As we mark the 12th (!) birthday of the social network that rules too many of our lives, Facebook tells us that with each passing
SF News Twitter Stopped Showing Ads To 'VIP' Users Say goodbye to the "verified" check-mark and say hello to the new way to tell if Twitter thinks your account is worth a damn. The social media giant, it seems, has stopped showing
SF News #TwitterDown For Hours, Silencing Millions Of Conversations About "The Bachelor" While some of you were wasting your lives sleeping, others were struggling to convey their profound life insights in less than 140 characters or look for info about last night's episode of The
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Animal Shelters Worth A Follow On Social Media One way to cure the winter blues, and improve the life of one lonely, furry creature, would be to adopt a pet. But, of course, if you are too busy these days and
SF News Regarding The Mystery Of Who And What Controls Your Facebook News Feed Facebook needs us. It needed us at the beginning to create the "network effect": friends flocking together to see and be seen. But now it needs us more than ever, as Slate writes
SF News Relax, Twitter's Rumored 10K Character Limit Won't Actually Change Much The social media platform Twitter is known for many things, but its most defining feature is the 140 character limit imposed upon everyone's hourly thoughts. So it's understandable that a report of the
SF News The First Of Many Zuckerbaby Photos Arrives To Annoy Us On Facebook (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=
SF News Out Of Order: Twitter Tests Non-Chronological Feed Twitter time is out of joint. A number of users have been selected to test a new feature, which some already consider a bug, finding their precious tweets presented according to an algorithmic
SF News That 'Ballot Selfie' You Just Posted? Yeah, That's Illegal. It's election day, and people all over this great country are busy posting pictures of their "I voted" stickers to Twitter and Instagram. Taking it one step further, some San Franciscans will post
