misc Look Who's Visiting Twitter HQ Today Today at Twitter headquarters, Will.i.am (the Black Eyed Pea who beat the shit out of Perez Hilton) stopped by to say hi. He's sporting sunglasses inside, too. What fun. Previously: Miss
misc Photo du Jour 584 Indian actress and former Miss World Priyanka Chopra & Twitter's Biz Stone at the Twitter office, presumably after a heated game of Tempest.
SF News Kevin Smith, Too Fat to Fly Southwest? After delivering a potty-mouthed tirade/iPad speech to geeks at the Macworld Expo today, filmmaker Kevin Smith (Cop Out, Clerks, Chasing Amy) sent out these delightfully irate Twitter messages regarding his getting thrown
misc Twitteration of the Day @Mike_FTW: The iPad will have 10 hours of battery life, enough to watch video on a flight from SF to Tokyo or Muni ride from Church to Embarcadero.
misc Photos: Twitter's New Office Moving out of the LoRi (Lower Outer Rincon Hill)/South Park neighborhood, the folks at Twitter moved up Third Street to a sweeter, swankier pad. CEO Ev Williams's wife, Sara Morishige, reportedly aided
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Behold Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Happy Breakfast Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sent out a precious twitpic today, followed with the caption, "This is how I start my day." Although the left-leaning denizens of the Bay Area are technically supposed to loathe
SF News Breaking: Twitter Founder Sells Home, Buys Home The fine folks over at Curbed reported yesterday that Twitter co-founder Evan Williams (heretofore known as @ev) sold his SOMA penthouse (going for a scant $1,498,000) on Fourth Street. You know,
SF News Facebook and Twitter Considered More Affluent According to a study done by the Nielsen Company, Facebook and Twitter users are wealthier and than their MySpace counterparts living on the other side of the railroad tracks. Computer World notes, "The
misc Twitter vs. Facebook If you're like us, you judge a restaurant by the beauty and cleanliness of their bathroom. So, it makes sense to judge social media network bigwigs Twitter and Facebook based off of their
SF News Twitter DoS Attack: Republic of Georgia Separatist? Yesterday's Twitter outage, it seems, was the result of one blogger, a separatist in the Republic of Georgia. According to CNET: "The blogger, who uses the account name 'Cyxymu,' (the name of
SF News Freaking Out About Twitter Being Down Twitter is down this morning. So is Facebook at times, but only because people are rushing over from Twitter to cry. Anyway, the fine folks at Twitter are in the process of fighting
misc Our Old Friend Zennie Has Some Advice for Twitter Remember our old old pal Zennie? He of the controversy and Giants game meanderings? Some of you may know him as a SFGate City Brights blogger (a title shared by those eloquent Getty
SF News Breaking: Marissa Mayer Opens Twitter Account SFist is a big fan of Google. So, naturally, we were elated to hear that Google VP of Search Product and User Experience and fellow air sign Marissa Mayer is now on Twitter.
SF News Woman Sued Over Libelous Twittering Be careful what you say about corporations and public entities on Twitter, dear readers! This is not your personal IM and someone might just try to sue your ass. Case in point: a
SF News TechCrunch Publishes Hacked Twitter Documents, Rage Ensues The Silicon Valley set has been abuzz this week after TechCrunch published private Twitter documents obtained by a hacker. Said secret documents went up on Tuesday and include, according to Baynewser, "everything from
SF News Twitter for Sh-tters Hey, don't blame us for the feces-related headline. If it were up to us, we would've stuck in another "i." See, Twitter for Sh-tters is this: a "grassroots" Twitter campaign to get people
SF News Quote du Jour: Michael Jackson Gay? So, yeah, everything and anything is being dominated by Michael Jackson's memorial today. Face it. And, after wading through all of the internet denziens getting choked by Colgate Total and Latisse spokeswoman Brooke
SF News Newsom <s>Spams</s> Raises Money On Twitter With the Help of Chelsea Handler While SFist likes to bitch about Mayor Gavin Newsom, as any self-consciously and affectedly pissed-off San Francisco voter does, we also love us some Chelsea Handler. (If you don't know who she is,
SF News SF IT Director Helps Iranian Protesters Ever since "hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets" in Iran, accusing the government of holding a fraudulent presidential election, social sites like Facebook and Twitter have played a wildly
SF News Pop Star Patrick Wolf Twitters His SF Arrest Patrick Wolf, who is some sort of British pop star singer, was arrested in San Francisco last night. Thankfully, he Twittered the entire thing for your enjoyment. pw_official: "Was arrested by san
SF News St. Louis Cardinals Tony La Russa Sues Twitter Over Hurt Feelings Wait, seriously? Sigh. Sit down for this one, folks: St. Louis Cardinals manager has his briefs in a bunch about the treacherous world wide web, and is now suing San Francisco-based Twitter. Why?
SF News Twitter for a Tree You just can't top this one, Gavin Newsom. United Nations Environment Programme promises to plant a tree for every person who follows them on Twitter. Check it: "UNEPandYou: Remember, UNEP will plant one
misc 311 and Twitter, Together at Last The Ballard just posted this message, "@biz and @gavinnewsom just announced that you can report potholes in SF by tweeting @sf311." The seem to be having some sort of live press conference about
SF News Protip: Do Not Twitter Your Vacation Plans In a virtual allowing-newspapers-to-accumulate-at-your-front-door-like move, Arizona resident Israel Hyman (tee hee, sounds like "hymen") left twitter messages mentioning that he was out of town. Then, as fate would have it, Hyman's residence was
SF News Patrick Swayze is NOT Dead Although reports were swirling -- swirling! - all over Twitter this morning, "Hungry Eyes" crooner and Point Break star Patrick Swayzeis not dead. He is alive. He has some serious cancer issues, yes;
