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,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Humphry Slocombe's Brilliant, Harrowing Response To Foie Gras Activists Oh, this is rich. Ever since foie gras was banned (or "banned") in the state of California on July 1, a smattering of animal rights activists, it seems, have since harassed Mission District
Arts & Entertainment Twitter Is <s>Down</s> Back! Notorious Whale Fails To Make An Appearance [Update] [UPDATE - It's back! Wait, it's down again!] KEEP CALM, everybody. There's a big hole missing in the Internet as Twitter is reportedly experiencing some unscheduled downtime Thursday morning. As many of your
Arts & Entertainment Yoga Studio, Rooftop Garden, Micro-Health Kitchen: A Look Inside Twitter's New Headquarters Noted local photographer Troy Holden shared with SFist these photos of the new Twitter headquarters. The recently-opened digs at the old SF Mart feature a rooftop garden (where employees can lounge in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Behold: Twitter Headquarters' New 'Micro Health Kitchen' We here at SFist are suckers for Twitter's astute office interiors (here are some photos of their old headquarters at Harrison and 4th), so it only makes sense that we ohhh/ahhh'd after
Arts & Entertainment Gavin Newsom, Social Media Expert, Forgot How Twitter Works; Tags An SEO Expert Instead Of Paul Ryan Television personality and angry tweeter Gavin Newsom, who once wrote a book on how to use social media, must have had a temporary lapse in brain function today. While attempting to use the
SF News Gavin Newsom Furious At United Airlines, Tweets Traumatic Tarmac Wait California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom is learning what we've known for eons — namely, not having access to the Jetty sucks. On an airport tarmac somewhere last night, Newsom was none too thrilled that
SF News Twitter May Be Getting Their Own Bus Line First Twitter gets a big tax break, now the MTA is going to be considering adding a new express bus route to Muni's roster at their meeting tomorrow: the 83X. The line is
Arts & Entertainment Wipe Yourself Clean With Toilet Paper Made From Your Least Favorite Twitter Feeds Behold Shitter, the latest entertainment app that will create four rolls of toilet paper out of a chosen Twitter feed. You can choose your own, sure, but that wouldn't be nice. You're a
Arts & Entertainment Breaking: Tim Lincecum Now On Twitter! @clint_dempsey @ussoccer just want to say congrats to you and the team on a great job and making the US proud, so pumped for you guys— Tim Lincecum (@timlincecum) March 1, 2012
Arts & Entertainment James Franco Loves Fellow Palo Alto H.S. Alum Jeremy Lin GO LIN.GO PALY! @JLin7 say.ly/Oqj1txM— James Franco (@JamesFrancoTV) February 24, 2012 Noted actor and infamous Academy Awards cohost James Franco sent some Twitter love to fellow Palo Alto High School
SF News Don't Make Big Decisions After 3 p.m., Suggests Twitter Research Cornell-based research using Twitter posts suggests that people are happiest in the morning hours, with users using words like "awesome" and "super" most often from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Tweets,
SF News CNN Journalist Tells Twitter Followers To "Smack The Ish" Out Of Gay Dudes Anti-gay reporter Roland Martin was at it again during Sunday night's Madonna concert (cleverly sandwiched between a football game) when the CNN political analyst took to Twitter to tell his followers to beat
