twitter - SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports (Page 19)

Arts & Entertainment

Twitter Headquarters To Install Old, Terrifying Log Cabins

Continuing with San Francisco's unyielding love of reclaimed wood, Twitter will install log cabins at their Mid-Market headquarters. Two homestead cabins, dating back to the late 1800s, will soon become a place where

Arts & Entertainment

Here's How Twitter Engineers Looked When Ellen's Tweet Went Viral

Last night, Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres decided she wanted to try and break the record for most-retweeted Tweet ever—President Obama's reelection victory Tweet got over 780,000. To beat his record, she

Arts & Entertainment

And San Francisco's Newest Billionaires Are...

SFLuxe published its third annual "Bay Area Billionaires" list. Some of you didn't make the cut. Pathetic. But still, what a list it is! Larry Ellison made it the to the top, of

Cyclist Tweets Allegations Of Possible Bike Chop Shops [Updated]

Yesterday on Twitter, @SFPDBikeTheft, the noted Twitter account that helps inform SFPD about bike thefts in progress, had a bit of a run-in with local cyclists accusing SFPD of not taking bike thievery

Arts & Entertainment

Class War: S.F. Streets Hungry, Marin Porsche Drunk In Perfect Photo

Well, would you look at this. A photo captured by Twitter user David Bellona, himself a designer at Twitter, is making the rounds for its perfect evocation of San Francisco's much-ballyhooed incipient class

Twitter Rents Out S.F. City Hall For Holiday Party

Listening to @dickc toasting to 2013. Proud of Twitter! #celebrate pic.twitter.com/kZdDx57a67— Jessica Verrilli (@jess) December 20, 2013 As if there wasn't already growing feeling that the Mayor was secretly in

Man Sues Ex-Wife Over Secret Twitter Stock Windfall

A New York man is suing his ex-wife, from whom he's been divorced nearly seven years, over some early equity in Twitter that she purchased before they were divorced. He seems to have

Willie Brown Has Some PR Advice For The Tech Industry; NYT Discovers The Tech Boom Backlash

Willie Brown's Sunday column in the Chron turns out to have been kind of prescient with regard to the tech industry's growing PR problem. Just as he was suggesting that tech company's start

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Martha Stewart Made A Dish At Atelier Crenn Look Like S**t

A funny little thing's been making the rounds today of TwitPics that Martha Stewart's been tweeting out over the last year, and how the grand mistress of all things beautiful and good manages

Arts & Entertainment

New Twitter Account 'Rent Enema' Mocks Hyper-Gentrification, New Mid-Market Development

You know about 38 Dolores and their ridiculous butterfly habitat? Not to mention the luxury rentals of Nema, a new experiment in charging $2,500+ for a studio on one of the crackiest

Twitter Stock Closes With 73% Gain, Rest Of Market Had A 'Twitter Hangover'

After hitting the New York Stock Exchange this morning, Twitter's newly public stock shot right up to about $50 before leveling off to close just a hair dime short of $45 — a 73%

Matier Uses Twitter IPO To Play Tech Bust Doomsayer

Noted city correspondent Phil Matier sounds grumpy today, and he's using the occasion of Twitter's much ballyhoo'd IPO to talk about the tech bust many of us believe may be around the corner.

[UPDATES] Twitter Opens On New York Stock Exchange At $45.10

[UPDATE BELOW] Twitter is about to go public on the New York Stock Exchange (which opens at 9:30 a.m. Eastern/6:30 a.m. Pacific time). Shares are priced at $26,

Protest Planned At Twitter Headquarters On IPO Day

In an effort to "call attention to corporate tax breaks and the tech company’s role in the San Francisco eviction crisis," a protest will take place outside Twitter headquarters on Thursday to

Twitter Hikes IPO Price, Could Raise Up To $2 Billion

The hotly anticipated public offering of Twitter stock is happening on Thursday, and today the business world is abuzz with news that the company is cockily raising the price range of their first

Mayor Ed Lee To Walk MidMarket This Morning Talking Twitter IPO

Twitter's initial public offering is set to happen as early as this Thursday. It's also set to make some people rich and some people unhappy. Naturally. In an effort to sooth concerns on

BART Strike: Day 4

Let's dive in, shall we: Monday morning's traffic proved exceptionally sluggish due to the continuing BART strike, now in its fourth day. Over the weekend, a couple of noted tech folks made mistakes

Twitter IPO, Among Other Things, To Spur 'Hyper Gentrification'

Many San Franciscans who did not used to be millionaires, who perhaps even couch-surfed in your living room once in the last decade, are going to become suddenly wealthy if they happen to

Arts & Entertainment

Haunted House Ups Fright Factor With Start-Up Theme

Halloween is coming, and assorted ghouls, goblins, and Miley Cyruses will soon stalk the streets in search of blood. However, the scares this year will come from a different source: a new haunted

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Notified Of Win Via Twitter

When the Nobel Prize committee had trouble notifying their peace prize winner of their award, they did what any overeager PR person or 1D fangirl would do: they @'d them. @OPCW Please contact