Arts & Entertainment Video: Facebook Employee Proposes To His Twitter Bride In Dolores Park Earlier this month, Facebook employee JP pulled off a coordinated social media/real life stunt proposal by enlisting friends, coworkers and his Twitter-employee-girlfriend's Facebook stalking habits to successfully sneak up on her in
SF News U Can't Touch This: MC Hammer Charged With Resisting Arrest, Goes On Twitter Rant Oakland native, would-be dotcom entrepreneur and aging former rap star MC Hammer (né Stanley Burrell) was arrested in Dublin, California last Thursday night after a police officer approached his car and asked if
SF News Apple Becomes Latest High-Profile Hacking Victim After high profile hacking jobs hit Twitter, Facebook, the New York Times and, uh, Burger King — Apple came out yesterday to admit it too had become the victim of a cyberattack. In their
Arts & Entertainment BREAKING: Snow On Mount Diablo!! Nice picture of snow on Mt Diablo #cawx #bayarearain RT @rhmimages: Mt. Diablo today. flic.kr/p/dWhjeN— NWSBayArea (@NWSBayArea) February 19, 2013 During this morning's chilly rainstorm, Mt. Diablo was dusted with
Arts & Entertainment Calvin Klein Underwear Tweet Wins Best Super Bowl 2013 Ad The average cost of a 30-second advertisement to air during Super Bowl XLVII was around $4 million. But among all of the Kate Uptown, GoDaddy (ugh), and Amy Poehler commercials, the real winner
SF News Top Super Bowl Trends On Twitter Lights out!!! Any questions??— Mr. Carter (@S_C_) February 4, 2013 As everyone at our Super Bowl party in Potrero Hill agreed, Twitter, rather than Facebook, was where it was at last night.
SF News Twitter Hacked, 250,000 Passwords Reset An anonymous group of hackers hit Twitter today and accessed an estimated 250,000 accounts. "This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident,
SF News The Government Is All Up In Your Tweets Probably not surprising to anyone who prefers metallic headwear: government requests for Twitter users' account information has been on the rise ever since the short-winded social network started publishing this data in July
SF News DUI Suspect's Shocking Twitter Rant Against Arresting Officer 48-year-old Khalil Jaser was arrested for last summer in Brisbane, California for driving under the influence. Then, like a shunned lover, he proceeded to call his arresting officer a total of 152 times,
Arts & Entertainment Niners Fans React To Win Hey, did you know that Rob Lowe is a Niners fan? Neither did we. But he, along with scores of other football fans, let their SF love loose after the Niners won the
SF News Twitter Death Threats: 49er David Akers Back in the day, one would have to cut out letters from numerous magazines, get out the glue, pull out a sheet of paper, piece together an acceptably terrifying missive threatening grave harm,
SF News SF Newspaper Tycoon Gets Into One-Sided Twitter Fight With Nancy Pelosi Local print newspaper powerhouse Todd Vogt has thrown some shade at recently-burglarized Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi via Twitter. Vogt — owner of the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Bay Guardian — unleashed a slew
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Laundry Kitchen Inspired By Jack Dorsey Tweet Much-revered Yountville restaurant the French Laundry posts a new quote in the kitchen every day, one meant to inspire and move the staff. Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey had one of his tweets honored
SF News Oops: Twitter Accidentally Reset Too Many Passwords After mistakenly resetting the passwords of a large number of accounts, Twitter sent out emails to scores of users today. Now, Twitter wasn't hacked. Like most Internet companies, the San Francisco-based social media
Arts & Entertainment Predictable Gay-Bashing Tweets From Angry Cardinal Fans Another reason to celebrate the Giants clinching the pennant? Upsetting these few St. Louis fans who, after watching the Cardinals lose Game 7 of NLCS 9-0, took to Twitter to spread bile at
SF News Twitter Blocks German Access To Neo-Nazi Group's Tweets Folks worried that Twitter isn't a universal fan of free speech have some more ammunition. The company has decided to use its newish "country withheld content" policy to block access to the tweets
SF News Bay Area Reacts To Last Night's Debate [Update] As of this morning, this much we know: Romney won the debate by possibly fibbing, Obama sounded lazy and nervous, and had trouble maintaining any sort of eye contact (critical for the camera!
SF News Even Twitter Thinks Your Follower Count Is A Load Of Crap Speaking to a crowd at BuzzFeed's kitten photo factory in New York earlier this week, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams suggested that the almighty follower counter might not be the best way to measure
SF News Twitter Reveals New Facebook-Like Profile Look Following on the heels of other social media platforms' looks (read: Facebook, Google+), Twitter rolled out a new photo header for your profile today. "Upload an all-new header photo on mobile apps for
SF News Check Out A's Pitcher Brandon McCarthy's Gnarly Scar Last Wednesday, Oakland A's Brandon McCarthy was hit on the head with a ball that, if you saw it, looked like one of the most frightening moments in baseball. Although he waked off
Arts & Entertainment Steve Martin Tweets About 'Evil' Pleasanton We never really got Steve Martin. We have nothing against the noted comedian, but, like most male funny men of his ilk (Bill Murray, et al.), we never grasped his brand of humor.
Arts & Entertainment Jack White Clears Air About Anti-Social Media Stance At Shows Renee Zellweger's former paramour got into a heap of e-trouble, and all that jazz (we're rooting for you, Renee!), after reportedly suggesting that neither Twitter nor Instagram fanatics are welcome at his shows
SF News Twitter Apologies For Hastily Suspending Guy Adams' Account Twitter (sort of) apologized for suspending the account of Guy Adams, correspondent for the London-based daily The Independent, who echoed the sentiments of many Olympic viewers by going on a Twitter rant about
SF News Boutique Uses 'Dark Knight' Tragedy To Promote Kim Kardashian Inspired Aurora Dress In a deplorable move to hawk cheap dresses inspired by the likes of Kim Kardashian, online store Celeb Boutique seemingly takes advantage of "#Aurora," which trended on Twitter shortly after the "Dark Knight
SF News Of Course, Famous People React To 'Dark Knight Rises' Colorado Massacre Friday's massacre during a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" inside a movie theater in a Denver suburb will go down as yet another horrific footnote in American history. These incidents are,
