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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

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

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@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

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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,

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

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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,

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

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

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

Anonymous Person Skyrockets To Infamy By Hiding Cash Around San Francisco

@HiddenCash Omg again, this is amazing! We just gave away most of the money from the first one! GOD BLESS YOU! pic.twitter.com/AGneJSkwMz— Lady XO (@therealjadaw) May 25, 2014 An anonymous

Twitter To Create Learning Center For Homeless Families

Twitter announced today, by way of the Chronicle, that the company will partner with Compass Family Services to create the "Twitter Neighborhood Nest" — a technology learning center for homeless families to learn basic

Biz Stone Says Nobody At Twitter 'Was Trying To Do Harm'

Every single person who had stock in Twitter all had the best of intentions. Whether 'the best' and 'aligned with each other' could be questioned, I guess. But everybody thought that they were

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Give Michael Bauer A Piece Of Your Mind On Twitter Today At Noon

Longtime Chronicle restaurant critic Michael Bauer will be hosting (is that the word?) a Twitter chat today starting at noon, in part to discuss this year's Top 100 and to prove that the

Loud Noise At SF General Freaks UCSF's Twitter Account Out

An erroneous report of gunfire at SF General sent an estimated 100 cops to rushing the hospital, in an panic that a spokesperson has described as "a false alarm in the Internet age.

Richmond Police Chief Shames Sex Workers With Tweet [Update]

Today in inappropriate tweets, sassy Richmond police chief, Chris Magnus, tweeted—then later deleted—a comedic bit that landed with a thud. Luckily, SFist grabbed it before it went away. Ahem: "4 Johns

Customers Of Local Sex Workers Might Have Their Photos Tweeted

Richmond, California's 23rd Street and Ohio Avenue are both reportedly hotbeds of prostitution, and the local police department's so frustrated that they're going to do the same thing many of us do when

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Meanwhile, On Twitter's Roof: Rampant Frolicking

Today's gorgeous weather prompted the kids at Twitter to take to the rooftop for lunchtime fun in the sun. Jealous? Don't be. Tell your boss you're sick and head over to Dolores Park.