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What Twitter Does To Your Brain
6:36AM Ryan Tate | It’s not the freak occurrence it might seem, Twitter’s co-founder submitting to psychoanalysis before a New York crowd. No, this sort of Jungian free-associating is what microblogging was expressly designed to do. More »
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Ellen Exploits Twitter’s Lists For Fun And Profit
12:37PM Ryan Tate | The “lists” feature Twitter just rolled out has been swiftly repurposed by the celebrity-industrial complex to pump up the accounts of tweeters like Ellen DeGeneres. Lists show celebrities exactly who can send them followers. And thus who to spam. More »
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12:10PM Jess McGuire | On Friday I asked if anyone had any information as to the identity of the international musician who fell through the roof of a Brunswick warehouse has been revealed! It was Trent from the New Zealand band Gatherer!
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The Identity Of The International Musician Who Fell Through A Roof Has Been Revealed!
12:10PM Jess McGuire | On Friday I asked if anyone had any information as to the identity of the international musician who fell through the roof of a Brunswick warehouse has been revealed! It was Trent from the New Zealand band Gatherer!
Wait, who? More »
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Is Twitter Conspiring With Celebrities To Delete Your Mean Tweets?
3:29AM Ryan Tate | Blogger Mickey Kaus likes to send nastygrams to famous people, on Twitter, when the mood strikes him. And yet these messages sometimes disappear from Twitter search, despite the microblogging service’s well-established technical competence. Mere coincidence — ha! — or conspiracy? More »
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Measure Your Twitter Manhood In An Exciting New Way
12:30PM Ryan Tate | Twitter’s hard-core users, mostly men, tend to size up fellow microbloggers by examining the length of their…follower lists. That’s what they did, at least, until celebrities started dominating Twitter. Now a new yardstick excites the geeks: Twitter lists. More »
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The Retreat Of King Twitter
3:30AM Ryan Tate | With great power comes great responsibility, and with great responsibility comes great headaches. So after years as the hottest, most talked about startup in Silicon Valley, Twitter is ready to relinquish some control of the national conversation. More »
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6:00PM Jess McGuire | This post is mainly for the benefit of Richard Wilkins, as I’d hate to see Tricky Dicky making another embarrassing gaffe on television because he decided to use Twitter’s Trending Topics as a source for stories. More »
Kanye West Is NOT Dead
6:00PM Jess McGuire | This post is mainly for the benefit of Richard Wilkins, as I’d hate to see Tricky Dicky making another embarrassing gaffe on television because he decided to use Twitter’s Trending Topics as a source for stories. More »
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Shrek 4 Audio Booth Secrets Are The First Casualties Of Hollywood’s War On Twitter
3:11AM Richard Rushfield | Last week, we reported that Hollywood has begun taking steps to wipe out the first outbreak of free-speech showbiz has seen since the Hays Code, eradicating the threat of stars communicating directly and banally to the public via Twitter. More »
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Why Twitter Scares The Hell Out Of Hollywood
4:47AM Richard Rushfield | While most of the world is latching onto Twitter as a lifeline to break through the media clutter in desperate times, an increasing number in Hollywood are seeing it as something else entirely — a threat to everything they hold precious. More »
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