SF News Facebook Goes Down For Second Time In Four Days, Nation Weeps #facebookdown descripción gráfica: pic.twitter.com/pDB7QJJWG8— Cosme fulanito (@EsquivoAlexis) September 28, 2015 You may have noticed that Facebook crashed today right around noon Pacific Time/3 p.m. Eastern, only to hobble
SF News Facebook Will Get A Dislike Button As Zuckerberg Admits The World Is Not All Like-able For years, as the popularity of Facebook has exploded as not only a space for sharing enviable photos of your beach vacation but also as a place to vent about current events, mourn
Arts & Entertainment This Is Why I'm Not Retweeting You It's been said often enough regarding our current cultural moment: We've all become a little too desperate for the immediate validation provided by Facebook Likes, comments, and retweets. For various media types and
SF News Most Teens Actually Still Using Facebook Remember how two years ago everyone was saying "the kids don't use Facebook anymore because it's uncool and their moms are on there?" Well, it turns out that isn't really the case, at
SF News ISIS Now Wants To Kill Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Over Deleted Accounts After an Islamic State-led social media campaign failed to gain traction last week, and after Twitter engaged in an unprecedented counter-offensive by repeatedly suspending or banning thousands of accounts belonging to ISIS supporters,
misc Gavin Newsom, Alice Waters, Others Are Inadvertently Leaking Their Exact Locations on Instagram Many Instagram users may not realize they are making their exact whereabouts public whenever they post pictures with the photo-sharing app .Some people who do not realize this are famous. After seeing Fusion’
SF News 2014: The Year Facebook Started To Figure Out How It Hurts People In a further example of the ways in which Facebook's corporate team can be a little short-sighted about human existence, the company got a very public drubbing over the holiday week after web
SF News 14-Year-Old Fatally Stabbed Over Rumored Social Media Dispute A freshman at San Francisco's Sacred Heart Preparatory School was fatally stabbed yesterday, over what the school's head football coach says were "social media issues." 14-year-old Rashawn Williams was stabbed by an as-yet-unidentified
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Behave (If You Must) On Twitter By the SFist staff This is a tricky one. On the one hand, we'd like to see a modicum of grace and civility in your Twitter narratives. On the other, we like reading
Arts & Entertainment If Christopher Guest Made A Musical About Facebook, It Would Contain This Song Sweet mother of all that is holy, we are in trouble. At the recent 2014 Social Media Marketing World convention in San Diego, this guy wrote this song. It's about social media. Audience
Arts & Entertainment Several SF Office Buildings Had A Conversation Today Using Post-its In downtown San Francisco today, several office buildings (at least four around Second and Jesse) conversed with each other, as they do, with Post-it notes. And it's downright delightful. They even played hangman
SF News Greenpeace Shames Twitter And Pinterest Via Blimp Greenpeace flew a blimp over Silicon Valley today to champion tech companies that have gone emerald green and shame those who are more of a tea green. The latter? Amazon, Twitter, Netflix and
SF News Some Pinterest Accounts Hacked, Festooned With Butts Multiple Pinterest accounts, including that of TechCrunch editor Alexia Tsotsis, were hacked and covered with pictures of butts yesterday. Behold: Dear @Pinterest my accounts been hacked with someone posting hundreds of butt pictures
SF News Twitter Replaces 'Retweet' With 'Share' Button, People Share Their Opinions In their ceaseless pursuit of minute changes meant to keep their product fresh, Twitter is reportedly experimenting with replacing retweets with a "share" button. A move which has some Twitter power users (and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Four Loko Settlement Forces Drink Maker To Police Their Social Media Page San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera and 19 other state attorneys general announced Tuesday that the makers of Four Loko — a sugary, formerly hyper-caffeinated, alcoholic beverage — have agreed to stop marketing their products
Arts & Entertainment Famous First Tweets In honor of the social media mammoth's 8th anniversary, Twitter released #FirstTweet, a nifty tool that allows you to instantly read someone's first tweet. Twitter explains: Millions of prolific tweeters have made Twitter
Arts & Entertainment @TechHateCrimes Documents 'Tech Hate Crimes' Serious? Parody? Does it even matter? Billed as "documenting hate crimes against the technology community," @TechHateCrimes was created late last year to note anti-tech sentiment here in the Bay Area. Its tweet plumage
SF News Yes, Twitter Was Temporarily Down, But Now It's Up Again [Update] Alas. Feel free to complain about it here—140 characters or fewer, please. We'll update as soon as we know more. Until then, pray. Just pray. UPDATE 11:30: According to the Twitter
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Franciscans Love To Tweet About Muni And Beer, Study Finds Today in data news, London-based social analysis (read: marketing) company Peerindex has analyzed the tweets of over 1.6 million people living in San Francisco and in New York to determine what we
SF News You'll Never Guess What Facebook Lets You Block Now, But The Answer Could Save Friendships In a move that really should have happened sooner, Facebook will now let you block articles and content from individual sites that you'd just rather not see in your news feed anymore. It
SF News The End Is Nigh: Twitter Employees To Start Cashing Out Let the salted-caramel ice cream and craft beer run like lava. We're through the looking glass now, people. Tomorrow the first piping-hot batch of insider Twitter stock will be set free. This means
Arts & Entertainment How The Super Bowl Played Out On Twitter Last night the Super Bowl was a dud. The game. The halftime show. All of it. At least according to what I read on Twitter in lieu of watching the actual game itself.
Arts & Entertainment Find Out How Many Days of Your Life You've Spent on Facebook If you've ever wondered just how many minutes, hours and days have been stolen from your life by Facebook, it's time to face the nonthreatening, pale blue truth head-on. Now, a tool developed
SF News Facebook Announces Paper: A New App To Consume Your Attention Thursday morning the social networking behemoth announced Paper, a new app meant to rearrange the way you consume news. Or your Facebook news feed, at least. The app, which started as a replacement
SF News Twitter: Most Powerful Social Medium Ever, Or Endless Stream Of Drivel? Discuss. In the wake of Sunday's Twitter dust-up involving Woody Allen and comments that Mia Farrow and their son Ronan made regarding Allen's alleged pedophiliac tendencies, it's gotten people talking (again) about how powerful
