A decade ago, not long after the decline of Ashton Kutcher’s supremacy on Twitter, in the days when the @horse_ebooks account was making the concept of “Weird Twitter” mainstream, an enigmatic character quietly surfaced. Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab) But there’s much more to this guy than coffee, and if…
You really can find anything on the internet. Once thought to be long-lost, a 1986 WWE wrestling match featuring superstar wrestler Bret Hart has resurfaced in full on the internet. Yes, this was back when the pro wrestling giant was called WWF, and Hulkamania was taking over the world. On Saturday, Instagram user @abuyousef2007 uploaded…
UPDATE: Jul. 11, 2022, 3:20 p.m. EDT This article was updated for clarity purposes. The research used for this article comes from the London-based Center for Economic Policy Research, not to be confused with the Center for Economic and Policy Research based in America as previously stated in the original article. While social media, in…
We have our answer: Elon Musk will not buy Twitter. On Friday afternoon, the (current) richest person in the world notified the SEC that he had terminated his painfully drawn-out effort to buy his favorite social media site, reportedly claiming “material breach of multiple provisions of the Agreement” as the cause. He had already previously…
“If you find a squirter marry her.” That’s the tweet currently taking over Twitter, with shocked reactions in the replies and quotes tweets asking, “What in the world is going on?” The tweet wasn’t accidentally sent by a politician or a hacked company’s account. RadioShack’s “squirter” tweet went viral on Wednesday. Credit: Mashable Screenshot It…
Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about the January 6 attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, some new revelation comes along. But this last-minute bombshell testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, is unlike anything we’ve heard before. And the…
From ad trackers to algorithms that monitor your online activity, it can be difficult to remain truly anonymous. You can make your social media profiles private, but it doesn’t change the fact that every post, tweet, and comment is tied to a name. NGL is a new app that allows you to share your thoughts…
Looks like Snapchat is moving into a paid subscription model, but will people actually pay for it? The feature, called Snapchat Plus (because everyone’s doing it), was first reported on Twitter by app developer and researcher Alessandro Paluzzi on Thursday. “Snapchat+ gives you access to exclusive, experimental and pre-release features such as the ability to…
Twitter is coming for an even bigger slice of the social commerce pie. The company announced Wednesday that it’s rolling out a new shopping feature called Product Drops, which will let merchants tease and promote new launches right on the app. Shoppers will see a “Remind me” button at the bottom of Product Drop tweets…
If you’ve viewed viral screenshots depicting private chats from an anonymous online persona going by the name “Armand,” whether they be conversations with the Buffalo shooter or foreshadowing of the Uvalde school shooting, what you saw was a fake. Since the May 14 shooting at a Buffalo, New York supermarket, internet users have pored over…