SF News CA Secretary Of State Burns The Hell Out Of Trump's 'Absurd' Voter Fraud Allegations "Serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California," President-Elect Donald Trump fumed on Twitter yesterday, "so why isn't the media reporting on this?" Easy answer: Because it didn't happen. Spreading Trump's statement,
SF News Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Briefly Suspended On Twitter, Account Reset After 'Internal Mistake' Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had his Twitter account suspended briefly Tuesday evening, sometime around 6 p.m. PST. The suspension lasted just minutes, but was not resolved fast enough to avoid lots of
SF News Twitter Reportedly Bans Several Major 'Alt-Right' Trolls Twitter may have adjusted its hearing and could even be listening to the longstanding demands of its users. After releasing new muting tools today intended to curb online abuse, the company has reportedly
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 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 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 Twitter Confirms Layoffs Of About 350 Employees Twitter confirmed rumors Thursday that the company would be making significant staff cuts — cuts that are actually deeper than expected. As previously reported, Bloomberg got early word that for the second year in
SF News Twitter Is Cutting Vine, Which Will Be Discontinued Vine, the 6-second looping video format introduced by Twitter more than three years ago as its rough video equivalent of a 140-character tweet, will soon be no longer. The company posted to Medium,
SF News As Rumors Of Second Massive Round Of Layoffs Swirl, Twitter Reschedules Its Earnings Report Alas, poor Twitter. Once upon a time, it was fun and useful, helping foment political change and providing a home for succinct quips. But those days are long gone, it appears, and the
SF News Anti-Defamation League: 2.6 Million Anti-Semitic Messages Posted On Twitter Over Past Year Twitter, the proverbial bridge under which trolls can spawn and spew, has been a particular hotbed for anti-Semitism, so much so that the nonprofit Anti-Defamation League Task Force on Harassment and Journalism has
SF News [Update] Greg Gopman, Former AngelHack CEO Who Called Homeless People 'Hyenas', Fired By Twitter Update: TechCrunch writes that Greg Gopman has been fired by Twitter. “Anddd I’m fired. Thanks TechCrunch,” he reportedly wrote to his Facebook page, adding that “[TechCrunch] wrote a smash piece on me
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 Nobody Wants To Buy Twitter As Salesforce Is Latest, Last Suitor To Walk Away Wanna buy a lightly-used (maybe that's the problem) microblogging platform? Salesforce doesn't, as CEO Marc Benioff informs the Financial Times that his cloud computing company has walked away from a potential bid on
SF News ACLU: Facebook, Instagram, And Twitter Provided Data Access To Surveillance Company Used By Police To Track Protesters Chicago-based Geofeedia, a "location-based intelligence platform" that analyzes social media posts to deliver them as surveillance information to 500 law enforcement agencies, is often used to target protesters such as Black Lives Matter
Arts & Entertainment Now Disney's Talking About Buying Netflix, Which Would Be Good For Both Of Them The latest merger rumor, first floated Friday and continuing into Monday, is that Disney is in discussions to possibly buy Netflix outright, in a deal that would provide the media giant with its
SF News Microsoft And Disney Floated As Suitors In Twitter Sale, Which Could Be Imminent #Twitter #Disney pic.twitter.com/SjUSPHyzHq— Wissem (@Wissem_Rassas) September 26, 2016 Late last week we heard that Twitter was starting to receive buyout bids from several tech companies, including Salesforce and Google,
SF News Twitter Likely About To Get Bought, Maybe By Google Or Salesforce Earlier this month we heard that Twitter's board of directors was considering a potential sale of the company, and today the rumor is out that some buyout bids are in, including ones from
SF News Caltrain's Twitter Account Is Sassy As Hell @mlroach @isaach We were doing sassy Twitter before it was a thing.— Caltrain (@Caltrain) March 19, 2016 It being 2016, every #brand has come to the conclusion it needs to have a personality.
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
Arts & Entertainment Twitter To Livestream NFL <i>Thursday Night Football</i> For Free, Starting Tonight For NFL fans, Twitter has mostly just been a platform for issuing death threats to placekickers who miss crucial field goals. But that all changes tonight, when Twitter begins livestreaming Thursday Night Football,
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 Waterproof iPhone 7 Unveiled As Apple Has A Complete Twitter Meltdown As we speak the long-scheduled unveiling of the next in a growing line of skinnier and sleeker iPhones is happening at an event in San Francisco. The tightly choreographed presentation was meant to
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 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
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,
