SF News What's Up With the Supes? Tax Breaks for Twitter, Redevelopment Alternatives and a Possible Apocalypse on the Agenda today Board of Supervisors meetings haven't been quite as exciting after the 11th-hour fireworks that went down just before the class of snooze-thousand-eleven took their seats last month. Hopefully, the rookies will find their
SF News (UPDATED) Infamous Kenneth Cole Egypt Tweet Emblazoned on SOMA Store Window Just as soon as Kenneth Cole posted this Twitter update that used the crisis in Egypt to sell shoes, he quickly erased it and followed up with an apology. “I’ve dedicated my
SF News Egyptian Students at Cal Organize Protest to Help Their Families, Friends Early this morning, the pro-democracy demonstrators in Egypt were assaulted first by supporters of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak charging them on horses and camels, then by automatic weapon fire. That's why for Salma
SF News Photos: Brian Wilson at Twitter Holding World Series Trophy SF Giants Brian Wilson dropped by Twitter headquarters in SoMa today. Celebrity visits and a possible payroll tax exemption? Nice. Another view below.
SF News Photo Du Jour Snoop Dogg stopped by Twitter headquarters yesterday. Nick Fisher snapped this pic of the hip hop crooner in action.
SF News Twitter To Leave S.F.? Currently residing on Harrison and Fourth above a Subway and next to a Whole Foods, Twitter headquarters is appropriately nestled in SoMa's tech-industry neighborhood. For now, anyway. "Media reports say that Twitter Inc.
misc What "SF Mayor Ed Lee" Has to Say About All This... It didn't take long for an @SFMayorEdLee to pop up amidst the stream of people tweeting about last night's Board meeting, after all this is still San Francisco. One wonders how this will
misc Twitter User Threatens Jumping Off Third Bridge The Examiner posted a story about Twitter user Nick Starr, who publicly threatened on Twitter to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge in 2008, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay in 2007,
SF News Shares of Facebook & Twitter On Sale Hey, rich people with nary a care in the world! Listen up: Although they have yet to go public, Facebook and Twitter (as well as San Francisco-based Zynga) have shares to sell. According
misc Too $hort Visits Twitter Headquarters Local photographer Troy Holden snapped this shot of Too $hort. The Oakland rap crooner stopped by Twitter headquarters on Thursday. PREVIOUSLY: Kanye West Visits Twitter Headquarters Conan O'Brien Visits Twitter Headquarters Look Who's
misc Follow SFist Team On Twitter While many of you know about SFist's action-packed Twitter feed, some of you, sadly, do not know about your favorite SFist team player's personal 140-characters-or-less musings. Horrors! Allow us to us fix that
SF News Facebook to Launch Its Gmail Killer; Apple Incorporates Twitter Into Ping Today in techie news: Facebook's secret product, known as Project Titan and blogged about since February, is launching Monday with a big special event at the St. Regis. There were hints that came
SF News Photo du Jour 734 Troy Holden snapped this shot of a scruffy Ryan John Seacrest who stopped by Twitter headquarters this week.
SF News Dick Costolo, Twitter's New CEO Dick Costolo has been announced as Twitter's new CEO, effective today. That means Ev William, company co-founder, will step down. Why? Well, according to @ev, growth and success. More or less, anyway. "I
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Fight: Local Chef v. Michael Bauer's Boyfriend Aside from a few vague Facebook messages sent to us that went nowhere, we do not know much about Michael Murphy, SF Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer's boyfriend. However, according to Grub Street,
misc Who Stopped By Twitter HQ This Week? Photographer Troy Holden (member of the award-winning Caliber SF) has always been kind enough to share shots of notables who visit the Twitter offices on Harrison Street. This week, he brings us two
SF News Twitter to Make "Big Announcement" Right Now A dash of technology news for you: Twitter, it seems, is going to make some sort of "big announcement" right this very second. We have no idea what it is, but it better
misc 'Like,' Follow SFist, Won't You? Have you heard of this newfangled Facebook thingamajig the kids talk about these days? Sticky privacy issues notwithstanding, it's pretty neat-o. And that Twitter? That sure is fun. Have you also heard that
SF News Popular Twitter Abbreviations Business Insider (via Valleywag) has a list of the 21 most used/obnoxious abbreviations used on Twitter. Let's see, they've got RT (Retweet), HT (hat tip), IRL (in real life), FML (fuck my
Arts & Entertainment Kanye West Visits Twitter Headquarters In Twitter's continuing series of famous people visiting their Folsom Street office, a shard-dressed Kanye West stopped by this afternoon. He even had a bite to eat at their famously tasty kitchen. Photog
SF News Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Sends His First Tweet Ta-da. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in town this week, visited Twitter HQ this afternoon with Gavin Newsom. Photographer Troy Holden captured the Russian doll's first-ever Twitter message. Here's what he had to say
SF News Russian President Rides Up Third Street in 20-Car Motorcade Ever been stuck in traffic coming up Third Street and wished you could be riding in your own 20-car motorcade with nary a Muni bus in sight? That's how Russian prez Dmitry Medvedev
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ronnie Lee Gardner Executed, Other Famous Last Meals At midnight last night, the U.S. executed convicted killer Ronnie Lee Gardner by firing squad in Utah. This execution was most notable for two things: Gardner's decision to die by firing squad
SF News Photos: Twitter's New 3rd Floor The folks at 795 Folsom are getting big. So big, in fact, that they decided to take up the third floor. Here, for your viewing pleasure, are some nifty shots of the new
SF News Conan O'Brien Visits Twitter Headquarters The phenomenal Troy Holden of Caliber managed to capture this shot of Conan O'Brien visiting Twitter headquarters this morning. (Note: SFist HQ sits less than two blocks away from Twitter, and all we
