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,
SF News Jesse Jackson Demands Racial Breakdown Of Twitter Layoffs As Last Black Engineering Boss Departs The self-described "only African-American in [engineering] leadership" at Twitter, Leslie Miley, has left the company. As he told the Chronicle this week, Miley's leave-taking was negotiated in September and stemmed from the Apple
SF News Twitter Trades 'Favorite' Stars For 'Like' Hearts In the Twitterverse, until today at least, a tap of the star icon nominally indicated that something was a user's "favorite." But "faving," as the gesture was abbreviated, came to express much more
SF News Twitter Evokes Dot-Bomb Memories With Pricey World Series Ad Campaign Hey, guys, remember the halcyon days of January, 2000, when a bunch of dot com companies dropped scads of money on commercials that would run during the Super Bowl? One current-day dot com
SF News Twitter Stock Takes Another Dip After Earnings Call, And Square's Numbers Aren't Great Either "We continued to see strong financial performance this quarter," Jack Dorsey said in a statement picked up by CNBC among others. The CEO, who has served in that role for a short three
SF News Generous, Guilty Jack Dorsey Gives Back $200 Million In Twitter Stock To Employees As CEO of both Twitter and Square, Jack Dorsey has likened a choice between the two companies he co-founded to a choice between his children, according to a source to Re/code. Although
SF News How The 'Twitter Tax Break' Cost The City $30 Million More In 2014 Than 2013 When the Mayor's office lauds the success of the still controversial 2011 "community benefit agreement," alternately referred to as a tax break and a tax incentive, which aimed to anchor businesses like Twitter
SF News Twitter Layoffs Affect At Least 240 In SF In a letter to the California Employment Development Department, Twitter's Human Resources Department clarified that their current mass layoff a layoff is considered "mass" in CA if it's 50 or more people will
SF News Jack Dorsey Giving Half His Square Equity To New Foundation Helping Ferguson, MO Jack Dorsey is so many things. He's Twitter's CEO. He's Square's CEO. He's a Missourian. And now he's making a name for himself as philanthropist. To recap: When this guy isn't, for example,
SF News With His Other Hand, Jack Dorsey Files For Square IPO When Jack Dorsey isn't somewhat inelegantly downsizing Twitter, he's busy filing for an initial public offering on behalf of the OTHER company at which he's CEO: Square! Get ready to trade on that
SF News Twitter Lays Off Some Employees Via Voicemail, Locks Them Out Of Email Without Telling Them "I'm one of the unlucky (or lucky) engineers that got laid off from Twitter," aptly named user LaidOffIn140 posted to Reddit this morning. "They haven't even told us yet, but woke up to
SF News Twitter Laying Off 8% Of Workforce, CEO Says 'This Isn't Easy. But It Is Right.' [Updated] Made some tough but necessary decisions that enable Twitter to move with greater focus and reinvest in our growth. http://t.co/BWd7EiGAF2— Jack (@jack) October 13, 2015 "New" Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
SF News Twitter Rumored To Be Having Big Layoffs Next Week On Monday we learned that Twitter was making co-founder Jack Dorsey officially the CEO again, and that the company was immediately ditching plans for an expansion into some extra office space on Market
SF News Day Around The Bay: Judge Strikes Down Eviction Payment Law, Again The 27-year-old woman, Sharinna Beoncia Grady, accused of stabbing a 10-year-old boy on Muni last week pleaded not guilty today. [CBS 5] Remember how the Board of Supervisors passed a new law last
Arts & Entertainment Former Twitter CEO (And Theater Nerd) Dick Costolo Consulting On HBO's <i>Silicon Valley</i> Dick Costolo may be laying low in the real Silicon Valley, but he's just jumping right into the parody version — if there is any perceptible difference. The tech exec is now consulting on
SF News Yes, It Looks Like Jack Dorsey Is There To Stay As Twitter CEO Don't call it a comeback, because Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has already been back, serving as the company's interim CEO since Dick Costolo stepped down in June. But now, as investors like the
