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
SF News Relax, Twitter's Rumored 10K Character Limit Won't Actually Change Much The social media platform Twitter is known for many things, but its most defining feature is the 140 character limit imposed upon everyone's hourly thoughts. So it's understandable that a report of the
SF News Twitter Patents Crowdsourced Tweet-Controlled Drone, FAA (Presumably) Cries Like its fluttery mascot, Twitter dreams of flight. The social media titan was granted a patent last week for a tweet-controlled drone, with user actions on the platform (think retweets) somehow determining the
Arts & Entertainment Mike Monteiro Offers To Insult SF-Hating VC Guy In Exchange For Charitable Donations You know that withering, book- and fine carpet-loving Englishman who's woefully stuck in dreary San Francisco and wishes he could see some culture and trees again someday? Well, Benedict Evans, known previously to
SF News VC Guy Incites Twitter Ire By Saying There Is Nothing To Do Or See In San Francisco In yet another example of the ways in which the newer denizens of New San Francisco don't exactly appreciate the place, local tech jerk Benedict Evans took to Twitter last night to vent
SF News Idaho Stop Legislation Passes First Vote, Barely; Bike Coalition Tweets At Supervisors Throughout Vote As we noted on Monday, the contentious issue of legalizing the rolling "Idaho stop" for cyclists came for a vote at the Board of Supervisors meeting yesterday, and as predicted it came up
Arts & Entertainment The Irony!: Three Big Tech Companies All Had <i>Great Gatsby</i>-Themed Holiday Parties This Year A lot of people, including SFist, were quick to call 2014's bubble-riffic round of tech company holiday parties "excessive," which has perhaps prompted them to be a little more low-key about talking about
SF News Out Of Order: Twitter Tests Non-Chronological Feed Twitter time is out of joint. A number of users have been selected to test a new feature, which some already consider a bug, finding their precious tweets presented according to an algorithmic
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 Man Accused Of Using Twitter To Manipulate Stock Prices A Scottish man is in trouble today, having been indicted yesterday by a San Francisco jury on charges of using Twitter to manipulate stock prices. Two companies were targeted in the 2013 scheme,
