SF News Arrest Made In Twitter Trolling Case Involving Epileptic Reporter In a first-of-its-kind case in which physical harm was inflicted via a tweet, the FBI arrested a 29-year-old Maryland man for allegedly tweeting a strobe GIF to an epileptic reporter and inducing a
SF News Hackers On Twitter Send Out Swastikas From Major Accounts Like UNICEF, BBC, British Parliament This isn't good, right? pic.twitter.com/nvxWYAutsO— Rob Lopez (@R0BaTO) March 15, 2017 Dozens of high-profile Twitter accounts from the European Parliament, BBC North America, Duke University, and other institutions were briefly
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco White Guy Becomes Meme me: oh yeah 2007, three years ago?someone: ...10 years agomy brain: pic.twitter.com/m3K9fijNuf— persephone (@couturetits) February 18, 2017 SF resident Drew Scanlon could never have known four years ago when
Arts & Entertainment London Designer Sends Anti-Twitter Sentiment Down The Runway Need of the hour! More glitter less Twitter! #Ashish #LFW pic.twitter.com/6agZ4yJanF— Manish Mishra (@dandydujour) February 21, 2017 Like the hours after 5 p.m., it feels like it is always
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.
Arts & Entertainment This Twitter Bot Will Send You The Current View From Twin Peaks Whenever You @-Mention It You know what would brighten up the Twitter landscape and provide a distraction from the eggs and trolls? Photos of the current view from Twin Peaks. Now, to get those in real time,
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 Activists Calling Twitter The 'Mouthpiece Of Fascism' To Protest Outside Company's HQ Thursday As we all continue to point fingers at groups, individuals, and institutions for causing the waking nightmare we'll all in now, one San Francisco company is in for a rough few years at
SF News White House Calls Out SF Branch Office Of Dept. Of Defense For 'Inappropriate' Twitter Use The revolution will be tweeted from within! The latest development in President Trump's Week One internal war with government agencies that don't seem to like him much is a statement from Press Secretary
SF News Twitter Admits To Spamming A Half Million Users With Trump's First @POTUS Tweet It was indeed a snafu on Twitter's end on Friday when a large number of people who did not follow the @POTUS account nonetheless were treated to President Trump's first tweet from that
SF News Is Twitter Forcing Us All To See Tweets From Trump's @POTUS Account? On behalf of my entire family, THANK YOU! #InaugurationDay pic.twitter.com/v2nEMoanIX— President Trump (@POTUS) January 20, 2017 It appears that Twitter may have just pushed out President Trump's first tweet (shown
SF News Power Of @POTUS Twitter Account Peacefully Transferred To Trump My fellow Americans on Twitter. It is with great honor that I announce to you today that a cornerstone of 21st Century American democracy, the peaceful transfer of the @POTUS Twitter account, has
SF News Trump Won't Use @POTUS Twitter Handle, Will Use Current Account To Keep Whining About SNL For Four Years When he assumes the presidency in less than a week, will Donald Trump make the final transition to power, setting aside his @realDonaldTrump Twitter account and his penchant for petty feuds to adopt
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 Martin Shkreli Trolls Female Journalist, Gets Suspended From Twitter Consistently awful person and pharma-bro Martin Shkreli continued his relentless campaign of awfulness last week by coming after freelance reporter Lauren Duca, who recently made a name for herself with this barn-burning op-ed
SF News Twitter In The Time Of Fascism: Lindy West Calls It 'Unusable For Anyone But Trolls, Robots, & Dictators' Much like Mark Zuckerberg, in a quest to defend his utopian vision of friends sharing birthday candle photos with friends, has struggled to accept that he now runs the world's biggest group-think and
SF News Edit Capability Could Be Coming To Tweets, Says Dorsey Rather than spend Christmas evening eating and drinking with family and friends, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky took to Twitter to solicit suggestions from the general public about what the company should launch next
SF News Epileptic Reporter Comes After Twitter Over Troll Who Sent Him Tweet Designed To Induce A Seizure A new wrinkle in the battle for internet civility has arrived in the form of a legal petition filed this week by reporter and avid Twitterer Kurt Eichenwald asking that Twitter disclose the
SF News Families Of Three Orlando Shooting Victims File Suit Against Twitter, Google, And Facebook The families of three of the people killed in the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June Tevin Eugene Crosby, Juan Guerrero, and Javier Jorge-Reyes filed suit this week in federal
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 Twitter Reinstates Account Of Literal Nazi Richard Spencer It seemed marginally possible last month that Twitter might not unilaterally suck at curbing hatred and abuse on its platform when it banned the accounts of several major "alt-right" trolls. Among the group
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 Jack Dorsey Blames America For Trump's Ascendancy, Says President-Elect's Use Of Twitter Is 'Fascinating' A little more than a week after a Twitter spokesperson failed to rule out the possibility that President-Elect Donald Trump could one day be banned from the platform for abuse violations, the company's
SF News Twitter Says It Would Consider Banning Donald Trump's Account The president-elect of the United States is a notorious troll — a fact which his promise to ban Muslims from entering the country, threat to imprison and strip Americans of citizenship for exercising their
SF News Twitter Tax Break And Proposed Free City College On Chopping Block Following Trump's Win San Francisco's liberal bubble is potentially facing serious strains under the looming presidency of Donald Trump. As we noted earlier, and as the Chronicle reports again, if the president-elect follows through on his
