SF News Twitter Will Expand Beyond 140 Characters Via Unnamed New Product What's that? Ur tired of dumbing down ur English 2 make it fit w/in Twitter's 140-character limit? Well, there may finally be a change coming to that arbitrary, 2007-era constraint, according to
SF News Facebook Goes Down For Second Time In Four Days, Nation Weeps #facebookdown descripción gráfica: pic.twitter.com/pDB7QJJWG8— Cosme fulanito (@EsquivoAlexis) September 28, 2015 You may have noticed that Facebook crashed today right around noon Pacific Time/3 p.m. Eastern, only to hobble
SF News 'Blackbird': One Former Twitter Employee's Perspective On Race And Tech "My fingertips danced with delight as I frantically typed away at my computer,' Mark S. Luckie begins his new Medium essay What it’s actually like to be a Black employee at
SF News Twitter Is All Up In Your Private Messages, Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Twitter has been sliding into your DMs (direct messages between users) or so claims a class action lawsuit reported on by BuzzFeed. Though the company asserts the privacy of these messages, the suit
SF News San Francisco's Twitterati Hate Tourists Not surprisingly to anyone who lives here, San Franciscans seem by and large to hate dealing with tourists even though our fair city is considered one of the top, if not the top,
Arts & Entertainment Tech Company A Cappella Groups To Perform In Relative Safety Of Atherton Tonight via GIPHY Though some might consider the performance of cappella pop music to be an inexcusable offense after (if not during) college, at least some employees from leading technology companies like Twitter and
SF News Video: Homeless Amputee Taken Down By 14 Cops At Seventh And Market An incident occurred on mid-Market two weeks ago in which a one-legged man with crutches was reported, possibly by a nearby business owner, for waving some "sticks" around in the vicinity. Though we
SF News [Update] Tech Exec Claims Washio May Have Delivered Used Condom With Infant's Clothes, But It Also May Have Been Used Glove "Better. Faster. Cleaner." That's the way of Washio, the Uber of someone else doing your laundry. But in a hastily deleted tweet from one prominent San Francisco tech executive, Washio appears to be
SF News What Flirting With Tinder's Crazy Twitter Account Would Look Like On Tinder When the team at the West Hollywood-based meeting app Tinder got their hands on the most recent copy of Vanity Fair, they didn't like the reflection they saw in the mirror, or, to
Arts & Entertainment Twitter Is Actually Taking Down Tweets Of Stolen Jokes Twitter is finally stepping up and taking down tweets of stolen jokes. Hopefully this means an end to those "parody" accounts of Chris Rock and Will Ferrell. The account @PlagiarismBad, who acts as
SF News Twitter's Frat-Themed Office Party Totally 'Not Reflective' Of Fratty Tech Company Culture Despite holding an office party with Twitter-branded beer pong tables and a sign in Greek- style lettering that read “Twitter Frat House,” Twitter's male-dominated culture is nothing like that of an American college
SF News Twitter Just Killed Off Background Images, Twitterers Revolt Over 'Blinding' Whiteness Gone is the default pastel blue, and gone are all your custom wallpapers on public timelines as Twitter makes the bold decision to make everyone's web feed pages the same, uniform, plain white.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Missing Snake Found! SF was just ranked the 4th worst city in which to drive. [HuffPo] That poisonous snake that apparently went missing at the SF Zoo over the weekend and was presumed dead? It wasn't
SF News Day Around The Bay: Supervisors Don't Want You To Drink At Taco Bell, Starbucks Senator Mark Leno’s E-cig regulations bill went up for discussion today. [KRON4] Russian Hill car burglaries have doubled. [KRON 4] This is how Twitter recognizes porn. [Wired] The SF Arts Commission is
Arts & Entertainment Is It Possible To Truly Go On Vacation Anymore Unless You're Off The Grid? A lot of us just got back from long weekends or extended vacations and have reached Hump Day in our first week back to our media-saturated, screen-addicted reality. I myself had a three-and-a-half-day
SF News Will Square Go Public, Kaput, Or To The Highest Bidder? As somewhat-prodigal Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey prepares to fully return to that company, moving from chairman to CEO, the ramifications for Square, the mobile payments company Dorsey also founded and where he currently
SF News Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Stepping Down Though the word may not come as a shock to those following Twitter and its difficulties, it's still big news. CEO Dick Costolo has flown the coop, or more likely been pushed out
SF News Twitter Allows Promoted Tweet From Hate-Spewing Transphobic Troll In a case in which it appears Twitter had a not-so-strict screening method for a paid advertisement, several promoted tweets were allowed through the system from a fake account that expressed hatred toward
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Big New Bon Marché Brasserie May Open By June In Twitter Building AQ restaurateur Matt Semmelhack and chef-partner Mark Liberman have been a major expansion project at the Twitter building (a.k.a. Market Square at Market and 10th) for well over two years now,
SF News Rapper And Twitter Icon Lil B Kicked Out Of Oakland Hotel For Weed, Claims They Stole $10k TMZ reports that rapper Lil B a.k.a. Lil B From The Pack a.k.a. Lil B The Based God is feuding with Oakland Airport's Red Lion hotel, and may the
SF News Twitter Earnings 'Leak' On Twitter, Trading Halts, Stock Crashes Twitter (TWTR) is being called its "own worst enemy" by Wired after some not-great first-quarter earnings "leaked" (according to Twitter) in the form of a few tweets. As a result of the bad
Arts & Entertainment This Is Why I'm Not Retweeting You It's been said often enough regarding our current cultural moment: We've all become a little too desperate for the immediate validation provided by Facebook Likes, comments, and retweets. For various media types and
SF News Most Teens Actually Still Using Facebook Remember how two years ago everyone was saying "the kids don't use Facebook anymore because it's uncool and their moms are on there?" Well, it turns out that isn't really the case, at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Hapa Ramen Closed, Chef-Partner Richie Nakano Out In a somewhat surprising twist, chef Richie Nakano, who launched his Hapa Ramen brand through a series of pop-ups and a Ferry Plaza stand starting back in 2010, has been fired from his
SF News Twitter Systematically Denies Job Promotions To Women, Says Lawsuit Twitter is the latest Silicon Valley giant to be hit with accusations of gender discrimination, with a former employee claiming the company's policies systematically hold women down. Tina Huang filed the suit on
