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
SF News [Update] Twitter Back Online After Wonky Hour, Blackout "Hello world?" You may not have noticed this unless you are an avid tweeter, a techie, or a media professional. But Twitter time stood still for a time this evening, and there was
SF News Sony Threatens To Sue Twitter Over Users Tweeting Leaks Sony isn't about to limit its "cease and desist" rhetoric to journalists and networks who are publicizing information revealed in the wake of its giant disaster hack. Now, they're threatening Twitter itself with
SF News Your (75,000+) Tweets About Rainpocalypse 2014, Slickly Visualized While the rest of us were tweeting about the storm, weather, flooding, etc, one guy apparently decided to take our social media grousing and turn it into something lovely. Identified only as "srogers"
SF News Day Around The Bay: Twitter CFO's DM Fail Twitter CFO means to DM, tweets instead: "I think we should buy them." Remember, always screenshot the tweet! [Buzzfeed] Google removed a homophobic/gay killing game called “Ass Hunter” from the Android store.
SF News Report: SF's Dirtiest Stretch Of Street Is Still Mid-Market Newsflash: Mid-Market, despite high-profile revitalization efforts, is still very dirty and smells resultantly horrific. According to a survey conducted by the City’s Office of the Controller, Tweet Street the Twitter section of
SF News Uber Investor Ashton Kutcher Supports Digging Up Dirt On "Shady" Journalists After it was revealed that a top Uber executive bragged about potentially hiring a team to smear its critics in the media, the company quickly tried to apologize and distance itself. Uber CEO
SF News Twitter Launching New Features Next Week, Unveils Bland Strategy Statement As was rumored earlier this year, Twitter is adding some features to make it both more Facebook-like, and easier to use for new users, as they announced in a public presentation Wednesday. Also,
SF News Is Twitter Trying To Distance Itself From Google Glass (Or Its Users)? Sorry, Glassholes! Looks like you won't be tweeting from your face computers any more, as according to one of their "Explorers," the microblogging company has given up on development of an app for
Arts & Entertainment Golden State Warriors Take Over Twitter HQ To Unveil New Uniforms That Look Like Trash Bags Nailed it, @warriors. pic.twitter.com/4X0OopuwH3— #FreeBillSimmons (@JohnxDiaz) September 29, 2014 When a team wants to show off their new uniforms, there's typically a press conference, with print, broadcast, and online all
SF News Former Twitter Guy Laments Difficulty Of Securing Parking Pass For His Nanny Tech people: they're just like you and me. They see the world in ones and zeroes, they abhor a misplaced semicolon and they hate it when San Francisco's bureaucracy makes it difficult for
SF News Investor Peter Thiel Thinks There's 'A Lot Of Pot Smoking' Going On At Twitter, Twitter Responds [Updated] Eccentric billionaire angel investor Peter Thiel who was used as the basis for the eccentric billionaire investor character Peter Gregory on HBO's Silicon Valley appeared on CNBC to talk about how he feels
SF News Facebook And Twitter Tweaking Timelines And It's Sure To Be Annoying Apparently people on Facebook don't know what the Onion is or can't bother to look past a headline to realize the story they're outraged about is satire. BBC News reports that now Facebook
SF News Robin Williams' 25-Year-Old Daughter Driven Off Twitter And Instagram Due To Abuse [Updated] If this widely-publicized story about what happened to Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, isn't enough to make Twitter change its weak harassment policy, we're not sure what will. After tweeting a link to
SF News Let's Talk About The California Drought, Baby, Today On Twitter At 11 AM California is currently in "a once in a generation type" drought, which we've been telling you about all year (read previous coverage here). Today (August 6) at 11 a.m. PST on Twitter,
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Governator Is Back Twitter had a great second-quarter, to everyone’s surprise, and shares shot up more than 35% in after-hours trading. [San Francisco Business Times] The Four Seasons is currently the city’s most-expensive condo
SF News Twitter's Diversity Numbers: White, Male, And Exactly What You'd Expect After mounting pressure, today Twitter revealed its workplace diversity demographics, conveniently one-minute before Facebook's earnings release, as Valleywag points out. The breakdown is pretty much exactly what we previously predicted: 70% of employees
SF News Twitter Smacked With Age Discrimination Lawsuit It is an issue that’s received national attention this year — sparked in part by the New Republic’s “Silicon's Valley's Brutal Ageism” story. Now Twitter is facing charges that it fired a
Arts & Entertainment @SFHiddenBitcoin Is @HiddenCash For Nerds Yep. Someone is hiding bitcoin "wallets" around San Francisco now and giving out clues via Twitter, @SFHiddenBitcoin. The fun started on July 1, and so there have been eleven wallets worth about $20
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Street Food Entrepreneur To Open Her First Restaurant In The Twitter Building Azalina Eusope hails from Malaysia, and she's a fifth-generation street food vendor whose great-great-great-grandmother first began perfecting the family's recipes. She's been operating her own catering business in San Francisco, Azalina's, since 2010,
SF News Why Won't Twitter Announce Its Diversity Numbers? File under a positive trend, but depressing news: Facebook is the latest tech company to reveal its workplace diversity demographics and the breakdown is as white and male as data recently released by
Arts & Entertainment Whiny William Shatner's Rants About 'Nobodies' Getting Verified On Twitter This weekend, Verified Twitter user William Shatner went on a rant on Twitter, about Twitter. His issue: People he has deemed "nobodies" getting verified on the social media platform—the coveted blue checkmark,
SF News Multiple Top Executives Leaving Twitter, Stock Price Plummets [Updated] Is anyone hearing a popping sound? This week saw the departures of two higher-ups at Twitter, COO Ali Rowghani and media unit head Chloe Sladden. As Recode notes, Sladden's departure is not unexpected
SF News Gavin Newsom Demands Apology From Rick Perry Over Gay Comments Lieutenant governor and gay marriage hero Gavin Newsom took to Twitter yesterday to scold Texas governor Rick Perry for his ignorance about gay stuff. And he's demanding that Perry apologize. To recap, Perry
SF News Hidden Cash Guy Returns To Bay Area, Promises 'EPIC' Weekend Of Cash Drops Eager, attention-grabbing benefactor @HiddenCash, who started making headlines two weekends ago with his anonymous stashings of cash-stuffed envelopes and Twitter scavenger hunt in San Francisco, is back in the Bay Area after setting
