Tag: Twitter
When Twitter started allowing you to embed images directly within tweets, it opened the door for all sorts of annoyance. Brands can force your eyeballs onto gaudy visual advertisements, and non-corporate mischief makers can do things like tweet pictures of gross pigs or enormous, ridiculous triptychs. Now, here’s a new one: SUPER IMPORTANT TWEET, which […]
If Morrissey’s sudden emergence on Twitter last week seemed too good to be true, that’s because it was. Though @itsmorrissey sported the social network’s “verified” blue checkmark, Moz made clear in a statement to fan site True To You that he had nothing to do with it: I would like to stress that I do […]
Even though Steven Patrick Morrissey has had a Twitter account since 2009, he finally mustered up a tweet today. It was as passive aggressive as you probably imagined. Here are some upcoming tweets that we imagined. […]
Yesterday, the New York Police Department did a very dumb thing. Using the hashtag #myNYPD, the department asked New Yorkers to share their photos of New York’s finest on Twitter. What happened next was utterly predictable. Activists seized upon the moment to show the NYPD for the violent, megalomaniacal, often racist organization it is, tweeting scenes […]
Here’s just the thing you need to take you Twitter obnoxiousness to the next level: Fuji Cannon, a tool that makes it easy to broadcast huge, three-tweet images like the one of handsome Mr. Fieri above. It’s simple enough to use. Just head here, log in with your Twitter account, and paste an image URL in […]
Earlier today, Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova tweeted: When I hear Lana Del Rey, I feel as if I’m back in the prison camp in the middle of clean up. #associations. Когда я слышу Лану дель рей, я чувствую себя в разгаре генеральной уборки в исправительном лагере. #ассоциации — Надя Толокно (@tolokno) March 7, 2014 Nadya Tolokonnikova […]
Shaun White, America’s Great Tomato-Colored Hope for Olympic glory, placed fourth today in the men’s snowboarding halfpipe event. Iouri Podladtchikov, of Switzerland placed first, with Ayumu Hirano and Taku Hiraoka, both of Japan, in second and third, respectively. Hirano is 15 years old. The good people of Twitter, as you might imagine, aren’t happy about it. Here are […]
A winter-polar-vortex-storm-thing hit the city on Tuesday and although snow was expected to fall until daybreak Wednesday, it tapered off later that evening. So, a little before 11PM, Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina announced that public schools would be open. Soon after, the official Twitter account for New York City Schools reiterated that news. And then […]
If you’re concerned about meddling bots reading your Twitter activity, try CAPTCHA Tweet, a simple app that translates ordinary text into an image that’s readable to humans but not computers. You may recognize CAPTCHA as the test sites like Ticketmaster use to make sure you’re a human before you access their services: letters are distorted […]
The announcement came abruptly, with little fanfare, and from a seemingly unlikely source: @horse_ebooks, the internet’s most beloved spambot, and Pronunciation Book, a less popular but equally obsessed-over YouTube channel, were works of conceptual art. Since 2011, the Twitter account Horse_ebooks has been run by Jacob Bakkila, an artist and creative director currently working for […]
