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100 Retweets, 'and I'll Shoot Someone'

Los Angeles man arrested after threat on Twitter

(Newser) - A really bad joke (we hope) on Twitter has landed a Los Angeles man in jail. Police arrested 20-year-old Dakkari McAnuff on suspicion of making criminal threats after he allegedly promised to shoot a random stranger in exchange for 100 retweets. Police say McAnuff posted multiple photos on Twitter showing...

Students Busted Over Dog in Keg Stand Pic

Animal held upside down in Twitter image

(Newser) - A Twitter photo of a dog held upside-down over a beer keg has a pair of college students in Western New York facing animal cruelty charges. The young Labrador retriever, Mya, was apparently being forced to drink, officials say (though another Twitter user says the dog didn't actually have...

Twitter Hauls Log Cabins From Montana to SF Office

Employees will soon be able to dine inside them

(Newser) - The tech world is lousy with impressive employee perks , but this is certainly a unique entry in the category: Twitter employees will soon be able to eat lunch in one of two century-old Montana log cabins. As the San Francisco Chronicle explains, the cabins were taken apart and shipped this...

Baldwin Still Tweeting Away After Exiting 'Public Life'

So ... it's not clear how exactly he defines 'public life'

(Newser) - Alec Baldwin recently made a very dramatic exit from "public life," yet, Salon points out, he's still tweeting . Since yesterday, when the New York issue that contained Baldwin's column hit newsstands, he's tweeted out support of Piers Morgan , a photo of his wife with Seth...

Lie Detector for Tweets? Researchers Working on It

'Pheme' aims to weed out deception online

(Newser) - European researchers say they're developing a system that can sniff out lies on Twitter, Facebook, and all manner of social media, reports the BBC . The goal of Pheme is to keep false rumors from gaining traction, and researchers say they can do so by analyzing where the tweets and...

Drake Bashes Rolling Stone for Replacing Him on Cover...
 Drake Apologizes 
 for Hoffman Tweets 
UPDATED
Feb 14, 2014 12:30 PM CST

Drake Apologizes for Hoffman Tweets

He clarifies his anger with 'Rolling Stone'

(Newser) - Drake has apologized for yesterday's ill-advised tweets about Rolling Stone and Philip Seymour Hoffman, kinda. On his Twitter page, the rapper had lashed out because the magazine replaced his cover image ... with one of Hoffman , after the actor's unexpected death. Drake first slammed the magazine for allegedly misquoting...

Twitter Sued Over @JamesDean
 Twitter Sued Over 
 @JamesDean 
Feb 11, 2014 10:03 AM CST

Twitter Sued Over @JamesDean

James Dean Inc. wants account transferred away from anonymous owner

(Newser) - James Dean Inc. has a problem with @JamesDean . The Twitter account bearing the late actor's name has been used by an anonymous James Dean fan since 2009, and now James Dean Inc., which represents the actor's heirs, wants the Twitter handle. It's suing Twitter, the owner of...

Twitter Stock Tanks After First Earnings Report

Slowing user growth takes a toll

(Newser) - Twitter beat Wall Street's earnings and revenue expectations in its first quarter as a public company. But investors were looking for even more—including more user growth—and the company's stock dipped as much as 12% in after-hours trading today. Twitter ended the quarter with 241 million monthly...

Insurer Skips Super Bowl Ad, Will Give You $1.5M It Saved

Esurance will give $1.5M to Twitter winner

(Newser) - Instead of coughing up for a Super Bowl ad, online insurance firm Esurance decided to buy the first ad after the game, and get attention by giving away the $1.5 million it saved, reports AdWeek. The company says the cash will go to one lucky Twitter user who tweets...

JC Penney Drunk Tweets During Super Bowl?!
JCPenney Drunk Tweets During Super Bowl?!
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Feb 2, 2014 6:20 PM CST

JCPenney Drunk Tweets During Super Bowl?!

Nope, it turns out the retailer was just kidding around

(Newser) - JCPenney, drunk tweeter? Nah, it turns out the company's retail Twitter account was just pulling our collective leg—and attracting a little attention—by tweeting silly things, AdWeek reports. But it's kinda funny to see how the tweets drew the Doritos and Kia social media teams into taking...

7 Stars Who Ditched Twitter
 7 Stars Who Ditched Twitter 
Jan 19, 2014 2:10 PM CST

7 Stars Who Ditched Twitter

Some of them only briefly, of course...

(Newser) - Celebrities have a very love-hate relationship with Twitter, evidenced by these stars rounded up by Perez Hilton . All of them have quit the social networking site—at least for a while. A sampling:
  • Miley Cyrus quit Twitter in 2009, at the urging of her then-boyfriend Liam Hemsworth. She's back
...

Assad Backers Hack Microsoft Twitter... Again

Syrian Electronic Army tweets through 2 company accounts

(Newser) - Ten days ago, Syrian regime supporters the Syrian Electronic Army broke into Microsoft's Skype social media accounts; today, the group tweeted through both the Microsoft News and Xbox Support accounts, ZDNet and the Next Web report. "Don't use Microsoft emails(hotmail,outlook),They are monitoring your accounts and...

You Can Avoid Sharks by Their ... Tweets?

Australian scientists attach transmitters to sharks to warn surfers

(Newser) - It's getting harder and harder for a shark to sneak up on people these days. As if the whole fin-sticking-out-of-the-water problem wasn't bad enough, now you might accidentally tweet your location, too. Scientists in Western Australia have attached transmitters to more than 320 sharks; the transmitters automatically tweet...

#JustineSaccoHasApologized
 #JustineSaccoHasApologized 
Dec 22, 2013 8:41 AM CST

#JustineSaccoHasApologized

Fired PR exec issues apology over AIDS tweet that exploded

(Newser) - The not-so-PR-savvy former PR executive behind the "tweet heard round the world" is very and predictably sorry, reports ABC . Justine Sacco has issued an apology—blessedly not via Twitter—saying, "Words cannot express how sorry I am, and how necessary it is for me to apologize to the...

PR Exec&#39;s Account Deleted After Infamous Tweet
PR Exec Let Go After Offensive Tweet
UPDATED
Dec 21, 2013 4:00 PM CST

PR Exec Let Go After Offensive Tweet

Justine Sacco's AIDS joke infuriated the Internet

(Newser) - A PR exec who became an instant Internet villain yesterday appears to have lost her job following fury over an AIDS-related tweet. Media firm IAC says it has "parted ways" with Justine Sacco, CNN reports. She won't be tweeting again anytime soon, either—at least not from the...

12 Key Tech Products of the Past 2 Decades

Walt Mossberg lists most important devices, software

(Newser) - Walt Mossberg has been reviewing consumer technology for the Wall Street Journal for 22 years, and now he's signing off—but not before reflecting on the most important gadgets and software in his time with the paper. And a very fruitful period it has been. A timeline of the...

Tech Rivals Unite to Nag World About Spying

Google, Microsoft lead charge

(Newser) - What's big enough to bring together such competitors as Google and Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple, Facebook and Twitter, plus AOL and LinkedIn for good measure? The NSA spying drama. Those companies are publicly asking the world's governments to limit such spying, and have detailed their ideas on a...

SpaghettiOs: Sorry About That Pearl Harbor Tweet

Company removes upbeat memorial

(Newser) - Campbell's has apparently learned its lesson: A smiling noodle is not the way to commemorate a national tragedy. Today, Pearl Harbor's 72nd anniversary, the company's SpaghettiOs brand tweeted, "Take a moment to remember #PearlHarbor with us." Below those words: A big picture of the company...

Woman Live-Tweets Crash That Killed Her Husband
Woman Live-Tweets Crash That Killed Her Husband
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Dec 7, 2013 4:49 PM CST

Woman Live-Tweets Crash That Killed Her Husband

Caran Johnson was known locally for tweeting traffic coverage

(Newser) - Beneath Caran Johnson's Twitter handle sits this now-eerie description: "Tweeting the crazy things that happen in the 'Couve." The Vancouver, Washington-area resident tweets as @ScanCouver , an account that KATU reports she uses in part to cover traffic alerts and 911 calls in the area. Wednesday afternoon...

As Currency Falls, Venezuela Wages War on ... Bit.ly

Government turns to censorship to stop flight to dollar

(Newser) - The bolivar is in freefall. Panicked Venezuelans are rushing to buy dollars before their savings become worthless, which is only exacerbating the trend. Faced with this crisis, Nicolas Maduro's government has stepped up … and blocked Bit.ly? The popular link-shortening service has become collateral damage in the government'...

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