This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You

Dear redundant old-media bigwigs: Meet your eventual replacement, a 16-year-old with gigs as a professional journalist for TechCrunch, a marketing evangelist for Qik and as CEO of his own startup. Also, he's been officially endorsed by Twitter. More »

What Twitter Does To Your Brain

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 »

Ellen Exploits Twitter's Lists for Fun and Profit

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 »

Is Twitter Conspiring with Celebrities to Delete Your Mean Tweets?

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 »

Twitter Violates Republicans' Right to Impersonate Enemies

Republicans set up 33 — 33! — fake Twitter accounts in the names of Democratic state representatives from Connecticut. Twitter Inc. shut the accounts down, "stopping free speech," say Republicans, and retarding innovation in defamationsatire. Typical San Francisco communism.

Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For

Twitter's not all narcissistic minutiae and celebrity retweets: Jonathan Ames used it to obtain a TV, from his employer, via "whining." More »

Measure Your Twitter Manhood in Exciting New Way

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 »

The Retreat of King Twitter

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 »

Twitter CEO No Longer Building a House

Running a microblogging service and raising a son are, perhaps, challenges enough for Ev Williams. The Twitter CEO tells us he's no longer building a house with his wife, as he told the New York Times in March. More »

Twitter CEO's Mockery: We 'Were Laughing at Those Media Guys'

Twitter's revenues will be just $4 million this year, according to a new Wired feature story. But that's not going to crimp its co-founder's swagger: Evan Williams knows Twitter will be huge, and has words for anyone who says otherwise. More »

Shrek 4 Audio Booth Secrets Are the First Casualties of Hollywood's War on Twitter

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 to the pubic via Twitter. More »

Why Twitter Scares the Hell Out of Hollywood

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 »

Twitter CEO's Other New House

Twitter's CEO is building a new home with his elegant, designer wife. But it won't be ready until at least 2010. The couple's existing penthouse is, perhaps, unsuitable for them and their new baby. The solution? A temporary mini-mansion. More »

Meghan McCain Swears She'll Quit Twitter If You Can't Deal With Her Boobs

Meghan McCain says she plans to "get the fuck off Twitter" since so many users of the microblogging service are hating on a maverick picture she posted of her maverick cleavage. Oh, please. She's a fameball. She's going nowhere. More »

Ousted Twitter Co-Founder's Twitter Derivative Has a Hometown

It's easy to get the idea Jack Dorsey is acting out a revenge fantasy. Fired one year ago as CEO of his brainchild Twitter, Dorsey now says he's planning a startup with "similar ideas" — right in Twitter's back yard. More »

Facebook's Unspoken, Intrademographic Culture War

In what may be a sign of an impending generational civil war, a growing number of 20 and 30-somethings are avoiding Facebook. They're called refuseniks. But, living in the 21st century, many of them can't truly refuse. Traitors! More »

The Kingmakers of Twitter Celebrity

Pee Wee Herman had more than 40,000 followers within 24 hours of joining Twitter. An organic phenomenon? Hardly: He had a PR agency known for its celebrity "Twitter boot camp" on his side. And they taught him some secrets. More »