Gangs on Twitter: America's Nightmare

Police say that America's most dangerous gangs are increasingly turning to Twitter as a communication tool for their criminal networks. We investigated the Twitter accounts of five notorious sets; the results may alarm you. More »

Why Did the Huffington Post Republish All of Twitter Last Night?

If you're a Twitter user, congratulations: You're also a Huffington Post contributor! For a few hours last night, it appears practically all of Twitter was republished on HuffPo. But now our tweets have disappeared from the site. What's going on? More »

Twitter Plans Elaborate Geek Orgy

Amid its quest for profits, Twitter Inc. has a proposition for programmers: Whisper a password, hand over five hundred dollars, and prepare to pound the microblogging startup's servers hard, all night. More »

Ricky Gervais Freaked Out by Facebook's Celebrity Campaign

Twitter has become a magnet for Hollywood celebrities, which explains why Facebook's clearly jealous flacks were conducting interviews on the Golden Globe red carpet last night. Next step: Convincing stars like Ricky Gervais that users are worth the trouble. More »

Barack Obama's First Tweet (And His Enemy's Punishment)

The president has finally tweeted. Barack Obama's first-ever personally-issued tweet concerned disaster relief in Haiti. It's a worthy topic for any sort of communications debut, so we're sure Obama wasn't trying to reward Twitter Inc. for spanking Karl Rove. More »

Tila Tequila's Perfect Digital Trainwrecks Merit New Slang: The Tweakout

Tila Tequila's latest unwillingness to acknowledge the universe's "Please: stop." advice has yet again resulted in a stream of Tweets serving as irrefutable evidence that she needs professional help. At the very least, it's disconcerting. People tend to do this! More »

Twinternet Tweaks Out over Vanity Fair Twilebrity Story

When Vanessa Grigoriadis's Vanity Fair story about female power Twitter users she deemed "Twilebrities" went online the other day, the women in the story freaked out about it. So did their friends. What's the big deal? More »

Three Annoying Habits of the Laziest Journalists on Twitter

Luckily for lazy journalists, there is a permissible way to "crowdsource" the hard work of reporting to the Twitter masses. But there are many more wrong ways to slack. After the jump, a collection of microblogging "don't"s. More »

The Secret Life of Punky Brewster

For a former child star, Soleil Moon Frye has done some very impressive networking. Her celebrity buddies in Hollywood have kept the 1980s actress in the media spotlight. But she's also insinuated herself atop the Silicon Valley power structure. More »

Life on Twitter's A-List

Blogger Anil Dash is, along with Heidi Montag, Jet Blue and Janet Jackson, on Twitter's Suggested User List which gives him hundreds of thousands of newbie followers. He writes about what it's like to be one of Twitter's Chosen Ones. More »

The 370 Dumbest Passwords, as Compiled by Twitter

Twitter appears to have learned from its security scare earlier this year and seems to be taking password security more seriously than most Internet services. More »

How Google CEO's 'Ex' Girlfriend Keeps Tabs on Him

Eric Schmidt's rekindled relationship with sometime girlfriend Marcy Simon may be heading into another season: After a summer of hanging out and an autumn jet ride, they've been spotted again this winter. And Simon's keeping a close eye on Schmidt. More »

Twittered Toddler Death Immediately Converted into Flame War

Shellie Ross lost her two-year-old child when he drowned in the family swimming pool. She tweeted about the incident, hoping for emotional support. How do you think that went? More »

How a Fake Twitter Death Report Tragically Came True

Last night on Twitter, someone impersonating a newspaper writer falsely reported the death of football player Chris Henry. Henry died about 12 hours later, according to news reports, finally making one of Twitter's many fake stories come true. More »

Facebook Begins 'Privacy' Con

It would seem our conspiracy theory is coming true: Facebook's big push to give you "more control of your information" is actually an initiative to get you to give up control of your information. Step one: Frame greed as concern. More »

The Laziest Journalists on Twitter

Reporters everywhere are in love with "crowdsourcing," in which sources magically come to them, saving the reporters several backbreaking telephone calls. But some correspondents have gotten embarrassingly addicted to this journalistic crack cocaine. And it's time for a intervention. More »

Eric Schmidt Bullied into Submission Twice in One Day

It's not everyday you see the CEO of Google eating his words. But Eric Schmidt has made two embarrassing reversals so far today: Admitting he was wrong about Twitter, and admitting he's got a terrible, AOL-user-esque sense of internet fashion. More »

The Disruption Is Coming from Inside the Building

Layoffs at the fast-shrinking San Francisco Chronicle have freed up a lot of office space in the newspaper's headquarters. So naturally the Chronicle is now subleasing to a guy who severely undercut its business model in the first place. Spooky. More »

Facebook's New 'Privacy' Scheme Smells Like an Anti-Privacy Plot

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued an open letter to his 350+ million users; you probably saw it this morning when logging in. Facebook will kill regional networks like "New York." Why? To trick you. More »