Arts & Entertainment Is Aaron Sorkin Plotting a Sequel to 'The Social Network,' About the Moral Downfall of Mark Zuckerberg? In an interview with Jesse Eisenberg on 'Fresh Air' this week he talks about his changing view of a man he portrayed over a decade ago, Mark Zuckerberg. And, apparently, a sequel or follow-up to 'The Social Network' may be in the works.
SF News Facebook To Block Ad Blockers Starting Today Get ready for your Facebook experience to become even more cluttered — uh, relevant, I mean relevant. According to Facebook, starting today the social media giant will disrupt ad blockers across its platform — rendering
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 California Parent Of Paris Attack Victim Suing Twitter And Facebook For Providing 'Material Support' To ISIS Reynaldo Gonzalez, the father of Cal State Long Beach student Nohemi Gonzalez who was killed in November's terrorist attacks in Paris, is now suing Facebook, Twitter, and Google for the roles they played
SF News NYT: Facebook's News Curators May Have Shown Bias, But Not On Purpose After holding a summit with conservatives this week at Facebook headquarters to prove they did nothing wrong, Zuck and company are kind of let off the hook in a new piece by the
Arts & Entertainment Is Vine Dying On The, Uh, Vine? There are rumblings among Vine stars, ad execs, and "influencers" that Vine isn't, like, all that hot anymore, and the Wall Street Journal picks up on the story in an effort to convince
Arts & Entertainment Twitter Will Exclude Links And Photos From 140-Character Limit "Big if true," as they say on Twitter. Bloomberg reports that the microblogging service or whatever we're calling it now won't include the characters taken up by links and photos as part of
SF News Dianne Feinstein Is Kind Of Blaming Facebook For Not Warning Of San Bernardino Attack Senator Dianne Feinstein is happy that Facebook saw fit to delete the status update of Tashfeen Malik that reportedly pledged her allegiance to ISIS shortly before the gun massacre she allegedly carried out
SF News A Scholarly Take On Why People Are Losing Love For Twitter Enough has been said about the supposed imminent demise of Twitter which likely isn't imminent at all but regardless of Twitter the company's slowing growth and questionable financial future, Twitter the communication tool
SF News Twitter Trades 'Favorite' Stars For 'Like' Hearts In the Twitterverse, until today at least, a tap of the star icon nominally indicated that something was a user's "favorite." But "faving," as the gesture was abbreviated, came to express much more
SF News Facebook Finally Kills Off Game Invites And 'Other' Mailbox Facebook announced two changes to their platform this week, both of which are intended to make the experience of using the service slightly less annoying. The company is doing away with the "other"
SF News Twitter Allows Promoted Tweet From Hate-Spewing Transphobic Troll In a case in which it appears Twitter had a not-so-strict screening method for a paid advertisement, several promoted tweets were allowed through the system from a fake account that expressed hatred toward
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Fallon, Funny Or Die Mock Ello We told you the Ello backlash was starting no sooner than the little, ad-free social network could even get off the ground. Well, now Jimmy Fallon made fun of it on the show
SF News BREAKING: Facebook Issues Mea Culpa To Drag Queens And Others Over 'Real Name' Policy [Updated] Three weeks after SFist broke the story about Facebook's "real-name" crackdown on drag queens and performers a story that made headlines literally everywhere, because the internet loves drag queens it appears that the
Arts & Entertainment Ello Backlash Already Begun? The S.S. Ello, which was calling “all aboard” in the last few weeks, has set sail and might well be headed for rough waters if the first thunderclouds of adverse internet reaction
SF News Anti-Facebook Social Network Ello Sees Major Spike In Sign-Ups I, like a number of my friends, have been itching for some alternative to the mind-altering, all-consuming world of Facebook, now that the company has proven itself to be less than progressive when
SF News Sergey Brin Regrets Involvement In Google+, Admits He's Kind Of Anti-Social This is funny: Google's mostly failed attempt at creating a Facebook-killing social network may not have been done any favors by having co-founder Sergey Brin involved in the project. As Brin told an
SF News Twitter Gets More Facebook-y With Rumored 'Whisper Mode,' Group Chats In a new interview with Bloomberg, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo hints that the ubiquitous public-conversation venue will offer something akin to Facebook's private group chat function, and an in-between "Whisper Mode" option for
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
SF News Twitter Is Just A Quirkier Facebook Now Rumors that Twitter would completely re-do its look for the benefit of the less tweet-savvy folks came true today as the company began rolling out a new design and profile look meant to
