Trump’s interest in buying Greenland gets relentlessly mocked on Twitter
Trump wants to buy Greenland, and the internet isn’t holding back on the memes. The president has “repeatedly expressed interest” in buying the island, the...
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Twitter’s Testing Another New Message Filter to Weed Out Abuse in Your DMs
Image: Matt Rourke (AP) In Twitter’s ongoing crusade against the rampant abuse on its platform that it keeps promising to address (no, legit guys) (this...
Donald Trump’s China tweets a troubling diversion from key issue
Last week began with President Trump labeling China a currency manipulator in his tweets about levying new tariffs on that country, causing an overall escalation...
‘Number neighbors’ is the internet’s latest obsession
If you’ve heard of number neighbors recently, you’re not the only one, as the whole thing went viral on social media this past week. But...
‘Trumpsters’ blast Tommy Lee for lengthy rant about president
Tommy Lee was getting blasted by Trump supporters on Thursday — and became one of the top trending topics on Twitter at one point —...
FBI Plans to Monitor Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for Terrorism and Domestic Threats in Real-Time
Photo: Getty The Federal Bureau of Investigation is soliciting technology firms to build a tool that can monitor social media for threats. The agency posted...
Twitter Tests ‘Snooze’ Feature That Temporarily Silences Notifications
Twitter is testing a “Snooze” button that allows you to pause push notifications from the mobile app for an allotted time. Discovered by tech blogger...
Twitter is testing a ‘Snooze’ button that lets you pause notifications
If one of your tweets go viral, you’ll likely enjoy your new-found fame for a few hours, before getting ticked off with the constant stream...
Hannibal Buress staring at his hands is the meme to end all moods
The Eric Andre Show is a formidable fountain of surrealist meme fodder. If you haven’t seen an image in the past year of Andre shooting...
Sorrow-scopes is the perfect Twitter astrologer if you want to get roasted
Most horoscopes are vaguely encouraging, or at least thematically veiled enough to make it seem like your life will, at minimum, be relatively OK. But...
Trump Boosts Fired Google Engineer Who Proposed Richard Spencer Fundraiser, Suggested Skinheads Rebrand
Photo: Evan Vucci (AP) On Monday morning, President Donald Trump finally took the time to issue a (hollow and thoroughly unconvincing) denunciation of white supremacy...
Watch a loose bat fly around a Spirit Airlines plane mid-flight
Forget snakes on a plane. We have bats to worry about, now. On Wednesday morning, passengers on a 6:00 a.m. flight from Charlotte, North Carolina...
Why we turn off autocaps and only write in lowercase online
Technology is always transforming language and communication. After all, it’s thanks to predictive text and autocorrect that a word as innocent as “duck” became synonymous...
Sometimes texting your ‘number neighbor’ goes horrifically wrong
Inspired by a Twitter trend, everyone’s texting their number neighbor. Unfortunately, not everyone’s number neighbor wants to be contacted. “Number neighbor” is also known as...
Twitter Under Fire Again for Failing to Ban White Supremacists as Charlottesville Anniversary Nears
Photo: Amr Alfiky / AP With the anniversary of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, approaching, Twitter is facing increased pressure...