SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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.
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Behave (If You Must) On Twitter By the SFist staff This is a tricky one. On the one hand, we'd like to see a modicum of grace and civility in your Twitter narratives. On the other, we like reading
SF News Twitter Gets More Facebook-y With Rumored 'Whisper Mode,' Group Chats In a new interview with Bloomberg, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo hints that the ubiquitous public-conversation venue will offer something akin to Facebook's private group chat function, and an in-between "Whisper Mode" option for
SF News Twitter Is Just A Quirkier Facebook Now Rumors that Twitter would completely re-do its look for the benefit of the less tweet-savvy folks came true today as the company began rolling out a new design and profile look meant to
SF News 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
SF News Greenpeace Shames Twitter And Pinterest Via Blimp Greenpeace flew a blimp over Silicon Valley today to champion tech companies that have gone emerald green and shame those who are more of a tea green. The latter? Amazon, Twitter, Netflix and
SF News Twitter Replaces 'Retweet' With 'Share' Button, People Share Their Opinions In their ceaseless pursuit of minute changes meant to keep their product fresh, Twitter is reportedly experimenting with replacing retweets with a "share" button. A move which has some Twitter power users (and
Arts & Entertainment Famous First Tweets In honor of the social media mammoth's 8th anniversary, Twitter released #FirstTweet, a nifty tool that allows you to instantly read someone's first tweet. Twitter explains: Millions of prolific tweeters have made Twitter
SF News 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
Arts & Entertainment @TechHateCrimes Documents 'Tech Hate Crimes' Serious? Parody? Does it even matter? Billed as "documenting hate crimes against the technology community," @TechHateCrimes was created late last year to note anti-tech sentiment here in the Bay Area. Its tweet plumage
Arts & Entertainment 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.
SF News Yes, Twitter Was Temporarily Down, But Now It's Up Again [Update] Alas. Feel free to complain about it here—140 characters or fewer, please. We'll update as soon as we know more. Until then, pray. Just pray. UPDATE 11:30: According to the Twitter
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Franciscans Love To Tweet About Muni And Beer, Study Finds Today in data news, London-based social analysis (read: marketing) company Peerindex has analyzed the tweets of over 1.6 million people living in San Francisco and in New York to determine what we
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
SF News The End Is Nigh: Twitter Employees To Start Cashing Out Let the salted-caramel ice cream and craft beer run like lava. We're through the looking glass now, people. Tomorrow the first piping-hot batch of insider Twitter stock will be set free. This means
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
Arts & Entertainment How The Super Bowl Played Out On Twitter Last night the Super Bowl was a dud. The game. The halftime show. All of it. At least according to what I read on Twitter in lieu of watching the actual game itself.
SF News 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
SF News Twitter: Most Powerful Social Medium Ever, Or Endless Stream Of Drivel? Discuss. In the wake of Sunday's Twitter dust-up involving Woody Allen and comments that Mia Farrow and their son Ronan made regarding Allen's alleged pedophiliac tendencies, it's gotten people talking (again) about how powerful
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
