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
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Fans React To Sudden, Inconceivable Death Of Prince How could this happen? Details are still scarce, but the legend that was Prince Rogers Nelson is dead. Many of you are probably saying, "He was just here!" and "Why didn't I go
Arts & Entertainment Does Rapper And Self-Proclaimed Witch Azealia Banks Control Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey? Querulous recording artist Azealia Banks, whose Twitter feed is a simmering broth of homophobia, nonsense, and the occasional Donald Trump endorsement, may hold in her hands the fate of billionaire CEO Jack Dorsey.
SF News Now Microsoft's Racist Twitter Bot 'Tay' Is A Pot Head Microsoft just can't seem to get it together. After pulling its accidentally racist, sexist, antisemitic, homophobic, transphobic, 9/11 truther Twitter bot offline and then blaming its meltdown on a "coordinated attack," the
SF News Instagram Celebs Panic As Algorithmic Feed Reordering Looms Instagram feeds are usually very personal things — a mixture of friends, celebrities, and brands that, for whatever reason, you have decided to follow on the social media giant and consequently pop their pics
SF News Microsoft Claims 'Coordinated Attack' Turned Its Lovable Twitter Bot Racist Microsoft today issued an official statement regarding its wildly racist, sexist, antisemitic, homophobic, transphobic, 9/11 truther Twitter bot with the lovable name of "Tay." The machine learning, artificially intelligent bot was taken
SF News Microsoft's Tween Twitter Bot Instantly Goes Full Racist, 9/11 Truther Microsoft is doing damage control today after an artificial intelligence Twitter bot it created went totally batshit insane — tweeting vile racist, sexist, 9/11 truther, and other garbage at the world. The AI,
SF News San Francisco Now Has Official Tweeter Who Gets Paid $130,000/Year Ugh. "Social Media Strategist" remains a real job, and even city governments like San Francisco think they need one. Per SF Weekly we learn that the city's Department of Technology had a job
SF News As BART Cries Poor On Twitter, They Hand Out $3.3 Million In Bonuses The guy behind BART's much-vaunted "honest tweets" might have a whole new shitshow to deal with today, as the public was reminded that even as the disintegrating transit agency still struggles to get
SF News Day Around The Bay: Twitter Turns 10 Today is Twitter's 10th "birthday" (don't you feel old?), and founder Jack Dorsey has some things to say about the company's future. [Cnet] [Bloomberg] The Obama administration gave Airbnb special permission to do
SF News Man Behind BART's Honest Tweets: 'Public Transit Has Always Been About Politics' Until last week, BART's Twitter account has consisted mostly of a series of apologies in reply to tweets from riders. Exhibit A: But like much of BART's strategy and infrastructure, saying "sorry" wasn't
SF News Twitter Briefing: Company Will Maintain 140-Character Limit Twitter may have 99 problems, but 140 characters ain't one. The company will maintain its signature limit on tweet length, as CEO Jack Dorsey recently announced on the Today show. "It's staying," said
SF News BART Delays, Crowding To Go On Indefinitely As Mystery Voltage Spike Remains Unsolved The problem that began Wednesday when 50 BART cars were jolted out of service due to a voltage spike near the end of the Pittsburg/Bay Point line will not be solved quickly,
SF News Instagram Mucks Up Your Feed With Algorithmic Timeline Instagram intends to go the way of its parent company Facebook, and will soon switch your timeline from a chronological display to one ordered by an unknown algorithm, a.k.a. something to
SF News Planning Commissioner Loses It On Twitter Over Gawker's SF Housing Scold Last week, here on SFist, I got a little mad at Gawker editor Hamilton Nolan for stepping into a discussion about San Francisco's housing crisis a discussion in which he really does not
SF News ISIS Threatens Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey A video surfaced today that appears to show the faces of Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg, the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook respectively, riddled with bullet holes. The alleged group behind the threat?
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 Kanye West Says He's $53 Million In Debt, Asks Zuckerberg For $1 Billion Kanye West had another of his seemingly manic, barely coherent Twitter meltdowns over the weekend in which he admitted to having "$53 million in personal debt," and then performed a millionaire's version of
SF News Day Around The Bay: Twitter Stock Hits All-Time Low A report alleges that Airbnb manipulated data regarding New York City hosts with multiple listings immediately prior to handing over information to city regulators in December. Airbnb, for its part, denies what the
SF News Will Twitter As We Know It 'Die?' CEO Jack Dorsey Says No It might be time for you to hold a vigil for your favorite a particular social media website. For many, Twitter appears to be on its deathbed. Buzzfeed reported Friday night that the
SF News Twitter Getting Sold To Marc Andreessen? Shares of Twitter are up over nine percent as of this writing Monday morning all over a rumor that investor Marc Andreessen is going to step in and save the day, along with
Arts & Entertainment Go Watch This: Chelsea Handler Marches Topless Into Meeting At Twitter HQ In her newly released docu-series on Netflix, Chelsea Does, comedian Chelsea Handler tried to get a meeting with then Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, only she walked into the Twitter building topless in order
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
SF News SF Couple Uses App To Time Contractions During Baby Delivery, They Mess Up, Out Comes Baby Star of the show. pic.twitter.com/pT9ZSyaiGN— Marco Rogers (@polotek) January 8, 2016 A San Francisco couple just had a baby on Thursday, kind of by surprise. After tweeting about the entire
