SF News Teens Now Asking For Free Rides On Twitter From the annals of "Good Ideas Teenagers Have" comes this latest trend: teens who missed the bus are now hopping on Twitter to get a ride to school. Of course, the genius plan
Arts & Entertainment Prince's Best Twitter Updates (Thus Far) In addition to a kicky new look, noted crooner Prince has also taken a shine to social media. Delightful. The typically technophobic singer made his Twitter debut Tuesday, tweeting from his band's account,
SF News SFPD Now Shaming Bike Thieves On Twitter Well, this is just great news for anyone who's ever had a bike stolen in San Francisco (which is everyone with a bike in San Francisco, basically): The San Francisco Police Department has
Arts & Entertainment Get Your Daily S.F. Weather Updates In A Single Word OneWordSFWeather is a pretty self-explanatory Twitter account. And yet, with just one word it still manages to carry more sarcasm, wit and commentary than the entire Mission District. A sampling of the past
Arts & Entertainment London Breed Is The Amanda Bynes Of S.F. Supervisors [Update] We have a new favorite crazy cannon on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. And her name is London Breed. For whatever reason, Ms. Breed will only respond to a constituent with respect
Arts & Entertainment W. Kamau Bell Reacts To Seth Meyers Taking Over <em>Late Night</em> From Jimmy Fallon Can't a network call a guy first? W. Kamau Bell, it seems, was in the running for the Late Night after Jimmy Fallon leaves the show to take over The Tonight Show from
Arts & Entertainment And Now, A Photo Of Gavin Newsom And AC Slater Fun time hanging outtoday with Lt. Governor @gavinnewsom ! Enjoy talking politics & mixing things up#Citizenville twitter.com/MarioLopezExtr — Mario Lopez (@MarioLopezExtra) April 24, 2013 Here's a photo of California Lt. Governor Gavin
SF News Twitter Experiencing Random, Hours-Long Outages Wondering why your majestic latte leaf photo isn't getting as many retweets as usual? It's not just because that is a dumb thing to tweet a picture of — it's because Twitter has been
SF News Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect's Twitter Is A Mix Of Song Lyrics, Chechen Pride And Boring Teen Stuff During this morning's manhunt in Boston, several sources have identified the Twitter account @J_Tsar as belonging to 19-year-old suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev. A cached profile photo (now replaced with picture of a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meanwhile, In Berkeley: Joyce Carol Oates Eats Bad Vegan Meal In late breaking Berkeley dining news, Joyce Carol Oates (author of some of the greatest American works of our time) read Berkeley restaurant Venus to filth last night, Tweeting: "Second & last near-inedible
SF News Twitter Wants To Run More Video Ads Twitter is racing — racing! — to bring more video advertising to the site. The San Francisco-based company is reportedly in talks with NBC and Viacom to add even more TV content to your favorite
Arts & Entertainment Cute: Nicole Vogelsong Helps Pagan Family Find Missing Dog In the cutest bit of drama today, Angel Pagán's dog, Maximo (a Bichon Frisé, perhaps?) went missing today outside of his Potrero Hill home. And who had the hot scoop? Mrs. Nicole Vogelsong,
SF News Wackjob Twitter Stalker Convicted Some of you may recall the tale of 48-year-old DUI suspect Khalil Jaser, who went on a Twitter rampage and made multiple death threats against his arresting officer in Brisbane and subsequently tried
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
