Australian opener David Warner appears to have launched a Twitter tirade against journalists. Picture: Matt Turner.
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CRICKET Australia is investigating Test batsman David Warner’s extraordinary expletive-laden social media tirade against News Limited journalists.
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UFC lightweight Nate Diaz decided to voice his opinion about another fighter on Thursday while using a homophobic slur, and on Friday it cost him $20,000.
Diaz took to Twitter this week to speak out against bantamweight fighter Bryan Caraway, boasting that he received a Submission of the Night bonus only after [...]
SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook and Twitter launched applications Thursday for Google glasses as developers rushed to learn more about tailoring software for the Internet-linked eyewear yet to hit the market.
“Built by Facebook, this app allows you to upload photos from Google Glass directly to your Facebook timeline,” Erick Tseng, head of mobile [...]
In all honesty, Blake Griffin himself could start a social network that served no purpose outside of featuring his dizzying (and disgusting, if you will) array of dunks, and it’d probably go over quite well. Instead, he — along with other superstars in the National Basketball Association — will soon see [...]
Hmmm, this isn’t suspicious AT ALL…
Miley Cyrus was spotted leaving a studio last night where Justin Bieber was believed to be recording. The actress-singer didn’t do herself or consequent rumors any favors either by ducking from the papz upon her departure.
What are you hiding Mileybird?!
Well, [...]
Google might have been mum on its much-buzzed-about glasses on day one of its big Google I/O Developer’s Conference, but today the company has announced a series of new Glass-based applications.
Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Elle magazine all unveiled new applications for the connected glasses, [...]
By BEN FOX RUBIN and SAABIRA CHAUDHURI
The Financial Times said its Tech Blog and various Twitter accounts were hacked on Friday by a group identifying itself as the Syrian Electronic Army.
Hackers hit the Financial Times’ Twitter and website. There will [...]
Twitter Inc. has teamed with the National Basketball Association to stream video clips of game highlights as the blogging service expands beyond 140-character status updates ahead of a possible initial public offering.
NBA Digital, a joint venture between the sports league and Turner Broadcasting System Inc. (TBS/B), will post game snippets on [...]
Time for the Grow Your Audience With Google+ session at Google I/O 2013.
We get underway at 3:30 pm PT to hear what tips Google+ product marketing manager Amy Walgenbach has to share.
Live blogging is below:
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Sina Corp is hugely popular in China, attracting more than 500 million users
Sina Corp, which runs China’s biggest micro-blogging service, saw losses narrow in the first three months of the year as revenues rose.
The net loss was [...]
(CNN) — In a deal that would vault Yahoo into the premiere league of social media, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is said to be closing in on a $1 billion acquisition deal with David Karp, the CEO of New York-based Tumblr.
Details of the talks leaked [...]
Sally Bercow, the speaker’s wife, has claimed she was merely asking an innocent question about Lord McAlpine on Twitter during a media frenzy over a Newsnight programme that wrongly linked him to sexual abuse in Wales.
During the first stage of a libel trial over a [...]
When astronaut Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Monday, he brought home something unique: more than 800,000 Twitter followers. Over the past five months, the Canadian commander has spent much of his free time tweeting pictures from space, interacting with his fans, and capturing [...]
Last week, the U.S. Department of the Interior tweeted a photo of a turtle. In April it shared a pic of a baby bison taking a nap. On May 4 it celebrated Star Wars Day with a series of behind-the-scenes photos from the 1982 filming of Return of the Jedi on the Imperial Sand Dunes in [...]
Well this picture really stinks, LOLz!!!
Breezy can finally put the critics to rest who say he lives his live with his head shoved up his butt, because clearly the talented musician prefers keeping his marvelous melon in between Karrueche Tran‘s ass cheeks!
Yikes!!
The thorn in RiRi’s side posted a salacious and [...]
Yahoo and Twitter have partnered to bring tweets directly into Yahoo homepage’s newsfeed on web and mobile, the company announced this morning. The move follows the February relaunch of the front page. At the time, the company debuted a redesigned site with an increased emphasis on personalization, as well as a more modern [...]
Few things likely please the Obama White House as a political battle fought on social media. Above, President Obama participates in a “Twitter Town Hall” in 2011.
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A simple idea: attack Obamacare
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In January, this Saudi man in Riyadh had Twitter open on his computer.
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Google isn’t done trying to take on the behemoth social networks. That was the message from Google’s Senior Vice President of Engineering Vic Gundotra at the Google I/O conference this week as he announced a new look for the [...]
Google might have been mum on its much-buzzed-about glasses on day one of its big Google I/O Developer’s Conference, but today the company has announced a series of new Glass-based applications.
Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Elle magazine all unveiled new applications for the connected glasses, [...]
Social networks, particularly Twitter, should not take over peoples’ lives, the head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has said.
“Those who resort to social networks and microblogs, especially Twitter, as their core life component, have lost their lives and their afterlife,” Abdul Lateef Al-Asheikh was quoted [...]
Mao Yushi, the 84-year-old economist who last year won the Cato Institute’s Milton Freedom Prize for Advancing Liberty, is a prominent voice on one side of China’s ideological gulf — his free-market advocacy and progressive political stance has made him a spokesman representing the polar [...]
In a deal that would vault Yahoo into the premiere league of social media, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is said to be closing in on a $1 billion acquisition deal with David Karp, the CEO of New York-based Tumblr.
Details of the talks leaked out earlier Thursday via AllThingsD, a site which [...]
Google Chrome programmer Rick Byers speaking at Google I/O.
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Stephen Shankland/CNET)
SAN FRANCISCO — Google would like to endow Chrome with Microsoft’s technology for letting Web applications deal with input from mice, pens, and touch screens.
Developers of the Google browser said at the [...]
As social media becomes more pervasive, local officials have seen their constituents use social networking sites as tools for community building and political discourse.
By
Steph Solis /
May 15, 2013
Newark Mayor Cory Booker has used his Twitter account to connect with his constituents on pertinent issues. [...]
As social media becomes more pervasive, local officials have seen their constituents use social networking sites as tools for community building and political discourse.
By
Steph Solis /
May 15, 2013
Newark Mayor Cory Booker has used his Twitter account to connect with his constituents on pertinent issues. [...]
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET)
Do you have a Twitter problem? Do you want to talk about it? Instead of going cold turkey, perhaps you can begin to wean yourself from the little birdie by accessing only the mobile version of Twitter on your Mac with BirdDrop. Then again, [...]
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Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET)
Do you have a Twitter problem? Do you want to talk about it? Instead of going cold turkey, perhaps you can begin to wean yourself from the little birdie by accessing only the mobile version of Twitter on your Mac with BirdDrop. Then again, [...]
In 2008, the NBA’s Seattle Supersonics left the Emerald City to become the Oklahoma City Thunder. They’ve since gone on to become one of the league’s hottest young teams, powered by superstars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook. Seattle sports fans, meanwhile, have been left team-less, and many of them are still bitter over the [...]
In 2008, the NBA’s Seattle Supersonics left the Emerald City to become the Oklahoma City Thunder. They’ve since gone on to become one of the league’s hottest young teams, powered by superstars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook. Seattle sports fans, meanwhile, have been left team-less, and many of them are still bitter over the [...]
Screaming at high school rally would reach more people than what Twitter sports rants draw
McDonald’s All American East forward Andrew Wiggins (22) dunks the ball against the McDonald’s All American West at Chicago’s United Center on April 3.(Photo: Mike DiNovo, USA TODAY Sports)
Even if we don’t know their real names, we definitely [...]
Screaming at high school rally would reach more people than what Twitter sports rants draw
McDonald’s All American East forward Andrew Wiggins (22) dunks the ball against the McDonald’s All American West at Chicago’s United Center on April 3.(Photo: Mike DiNovo, USA TODAY Sports)
Even if we don’t know their real names, we definitely [...]
Councilman Jumaane Williams was a dying man on Tuesday night. And he will be again Thursday.
That’s because the East Flatbush Democrat is sticking with his beloved and bleak New York Knicks despite a loss to the Indiana Pacers Tuesday that sent the Twitter-friendly lawmaker reeling.
“I’m disgusted and [...]
Councilman Jumaane Williams was a dying man on Tuesday night. And he will be again Thursday.
That’s because the East Flatbush Democrat is sticking with his beloved and bleak New York Knicks despite a loss to the Indiana Pacers Tuesday that sent the Twitter-friendly lawmaker reeling.
“I’m disgusted and [...]
Time for a back-up plan for your Twitter back-up plan. Backupify — the cloud-based backup, search and restore provider for online services — is shutting down its TweetBackup service for Twitter users. The company has posted a note about the closure on its site, as well as — yes — on [...]
Time for a back-up plan for your Twitter back-up plan. Backupify — the cloud-based backup, search and restore provider for online services — is shutting down its TweetBackup service for Twitter users. The company has posted a note about the closure on its site, as well as — yes — on [...]
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