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If Vine Tried To Make A Commercial About Vine Using Vine

Because Twitter wants to force lightning twice with self-imposed limitations on communication, Vine has been awkwardly limited to 6 seconds of video. But what does that 6 seconds mean? Could Vine promote Vine in 6 seconds? Could you explain what Vine is in 6 seconds? Is 6 seconds longer or shorter than you think?


Watch More Pretty Celebrities Read The Awful Tweets Sent To Them

When you combine beautiful faces with cookie cutter cheekbones, luscious lips and millions of dollars in success, you’re bound to get a lot of hate from random joes on the Internet. Can you imagine the mentions column for celebs on Twitter? Yeah. Jimmy Kimmel can imagine it to so he got more celebrities to read the awful mean (and hilarious) tweets sent to them.


11 Online Chat Cliches We Should All Agree To Stop Using

One of the many unbearable things about the internet is how we use certain words and phrases until they are completely void of any meaning at all. And, because it’s the internet, the most insufferable trends stick around long after they’re welcome.


How The Onion Was Hacked By The Syrian Electronic Army

It was tough to tell for sure if The Onion really had been hacked earlier this week or if it was all just a joke. Now the website has explained exactly how its Twitter account was compromised by the Syrian Electronic Army.


Your Klout Score Can Actually Get You Something Good Now

We all know that Klout is weird and slightly obnoxious, but now you can actually do something with those meaningless social media ranking numbers: American Airlines is letting you use its lounge services if you’re an “influencer”.


Yet Another Big Twitter Account Has Been Hacked

There was McDonalds and Jeep and then CBS and the AP. Now E! Online has joined the illustrious club of Twitter accounts that have been hacked. The account has been suspended, but not before claiming that Justin Bieber came out as gay.


Tennis Player Tweets About His Love For The Galaxy S4 From An iPhone

David Ferrer, the 4th ranked tennis player in the world right now (which probably makes him the best tennis player you never heard of), made a silly unforced error off the tennis court today: he tweeted about how happy he is with his new Samsung Galaxy S4 from… his iPhone. Whoops!


Twitter Should Shut Me Down

In August of 2012 I left my job at a startup in New York City. I was 24. I enrolled in a graduate program at NYU, wanting to study Computer Science and Biology. Two weeks in, one of my professors assigned a homework project that would rapidly turn into a profitable business. The goal of the homework assignment was to design a system that would create a behaviour change in a group of test subjects. The behaviour change that I picked was getting people to follow me on Twitter.


The Secret Twitter Music Feature That Adds A Dash Of Pandora

Twitter’s stab at the music scene burst on the scene a few weeks ago, in all it’s celebrity-stalking glory. But there’s at least one feature that’s still hiding behind the scenes: a Pandora-like “similar artists” option, and you can coax it out if you know the secret code.


Efemr Is Snapchat For Twitter, Which Can Only End Well

So yeah, efemr is a web app that scrubs tweets after the amount of time you hashtag. Want a tweet gone after five minutes? #5m. Two hours? #2h. You get the gist.


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