SF News Twitter Lists More Than 1/4 Of SF Headquarters For Sublease Correction: This post originally stated that the portion of Twitter offices for sublease represented a quarter of the company's space in San Francisco overall. In fact, the figure is greater than that, though
SF News 'Tech Tax' Dies After Supervisor Farrell Associates It With Donald Trump The controversial "tech tax" is dead for the time being, with a 2-to-1 vote yesterday by the Board of Supervisors’ budget committee meaning the measure will not be sent to the full board
SF News Intern For London Breed Beefs With Tourist Complaining About Litter The office of the president of the Board of Supervisors got into it with a tourist last week, reaffirming the old adage that only San Franciscans can talk trash about San Francisco. It
SF News Noted Petulant Conservative Twitter Bully Launches Media Campaign To Get Himself Unbanned This is just the beginning @Jack. #FreeMilo pic.twitter.com/Oumtov8Jj5— Allum Bokhari (@LibertarianBlue) July 24, 2016 Banned Twitter user, strident gay conservative pundit and Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos is likely very
SF News Twitter Launches Cheesy Ad Campaign To Explain What Twitter Is Are you part of the 90 percent of the planet that, according to Twitter, recognizes the Twitter brand? If so, are you also one of the huge number of people that, again according
SF News Outer Sunset Man Named As Alleged Twitter Troll Seeking Beheading Of SFPD's Acting Chief An Outer Sunset man was taken into custody Tuesday, after police say he was responsible for a tweet calling for the beheading of acting San Francisco Police department Chief Toney Chaplin. It was
SF News Now Everybody Can Apply For A Verified Twitter Account, So Why Would Anyone? @oprah was one of the first Twitter accounts to boast a blue "verified" check, a useful indication that Ms. Winfrey's account did, indeed, represent her. But that onetime sign of Twitter Illuminati status
SF News Criticizing Police On Social Media Leads To Arrests Following Dallas Shooting With police departments in San Francisco and around the country still working out how to best respond to the July 7 mass shooting in Dallas, some officers have taken to proactively arresting people
SF News Proposed SF 'Tech Tax' Angers Mayor, Tech Industry A proposed payroll tax on San Francisco tech companies is already making enemies, and it's not even on the ballot yet. The Chronicle reports that the measure, introduced by Supervisor Eric Mar yesterday
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
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 Former Googlers/Twitterers Kickstarting Icebreaker Card Game Socializing is difficult, and personally, I try to avoid it. When I do find myself — however accidentally — at a gathering with others, I start in with the usual pleasantries. A bit about my
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
Arts & Entertainment Azealia Banks' Spell On Twitter CEO Is Apparently Broken As Her Account Is Suspended The very *~racy~* Twitter account of rapper/provocateuse Azealia Banks has been very much suspended. That overdue move on the part of Twitter's notoriously reticent harassment team was first noticed by Hip Hop
SF News Twitter Stock Hits Another All-Time Low At the very second Twitter stock hit a new, all-time low of $13.90 per share today, a brief moment observed by CNet and others from which the share price has partially recovered
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
