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
Arts & Entertainment Ashley Judd Determined To Sue Her Twitter Bullies Calling recent rashes of bullying on social media "gender violence," actress Ashley Judd is pressing charges against multiple Twitter users who came after her in the wake of some comments she made about
SF News One To Watch: BoS President London Breed Revives Pissily Deleted Twitter Account Two months after SFist wished it, it has become so: Board President and one time "Amanda Bynes of SF Supes" London Breed has returned to Twitter, years after she deleted her account in
SF News ISIS Now Wants To Kill Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Over Deleted Accounts After an Islamic State-led social media campaign failed to gain traction last week, and after Twitter engaged in an unprecedented counter-offensive by repeatedly suspending or banning thousands of accounts belonging to ISIS supporters,
SF News Transbay Transit Center To Become The Google Transit Center? Ugh. Alongside Salesforce Tower, the big new transit center taking shape downtown could be getting a corporate moniker, thanks to the sale of naming rights for the center, its rooftop park, or any
SF News Day Around The Bay: Why Google Glass Broke Here is a most excellent long-read by Nick Bilton on "Why Google Glass Broke," and how that whole strategy with the Explorers backfired. [NYT] Twitter CEO admits that they “suck” at dealing with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tech Millionaire Dubbed 'Secret Somm' On Twitter Randomly Gifting Wine To East Bay Diners An anonymous woman who seems to be working on behalf of the Tri-Valley Visitors' Bureau (covering the valleys of Amador, Livermore, and San Ramon) has been roaming restaurants around Danville, Pleasanton, and elsewhere
Arts & Entertainment New 'Vine Kids' Isn't Just For Kids Vine was already pretty kid friendly, with the Twitter-owned 6 second video app appropriate to the attention span of the young. So it was no surprise when Vine launched a kid-friendly version of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photos: The Market On Market, A Massive Home-Grown Food Hall In The Twitter Building Enter The Market, singularly named because now that it's here, no other market need exist. Inside the Twitter building awaits the cave of a thousand dream foods, but don't call it the Twitter
SF News Astronaut Tweets Bay Area Photo From Space Hello #SanFrancisco! What a clear view of the Bay Area from #space, I think I can see the Golden Gate! pic.twitter.com/eNr7pDItH6— Sam Cristoforetti (@AstroSamantha) January 20, 2015 This far-out photo
SF News Should Twitter Buy Yahoo? If you're reading this site, it's likely you have an idea of what Twitter does. Yahoo is a little harder to figure out (even, it appears, to those inside the organization). So why
