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Jose Canseco denies rape allegations

Jose Canseco
And speaking of problematic people to follow on Twitter, ex-A’s star Jose Canseco has unleashed some doozies since being accused of raping a woman after drugging her. Known for bizarre tweets in the past--“there is a quality control issue with my manfume”--now Jose has tweeted the name of his accuser along with an invitation to her to take a polygraph. Read More

Woman shot in Western Addition

A hail of bullets in the Western Addition injured a woman and entered a nearby apartment Wednesday night, police said. The 26-year-old victim was walking in the 1600 block of McAllister Street about 10:15 p.m.when she was struck in the torso by a bullet, police said. She did not see the shooter, but multiple witnesses heard the shots and saw a man fleeing in a black car westbound on McAllister toward Broderick Street, Officer Gordon Shyy said. Read More

Twitter adds security measure to logins

Twitter is adding an extra security measure to users' accounts in an effort to prevent unauthorized logins. Read More

Jack Dorsey’s Vine videos prove value of the selfie

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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is so excited about his new Vine app for video sharing that he has selflessly used his own face as a model. Read More

Latest Twitter account hack targets Justin Bieber, Angelina Jolie

Justin Bieber
A group calling itself The Syrian Electronic Army hacked into the Twitter account of E! Online and confirmed what we have always known: Justin Bieber is gay (OK, just kidding). Read More

Tech worker fired after tweeting about men's comments

A female developer was fired after tweeting about a group of men she said were making sexual comments at a computer programming conference, fueling an already vigorous debate about gender equality and culture in Silicon Valley.Adria Richards wrote on her blog at http://butyoureagirl.com that she was seated in a ballroom at the Santa Clara conference Sunday when the men behind her started talking about "big dongles." Read More

Twitter maniac convicted of threatening Brisbane cop over DUI arrest

An unemployed cabbie was convicted Thursday of stalking a Brisbane police officer in protest of his DUI arrest. Prosecutors said Khalil Jaser called his arresting officer 152 times -- leaving 54 messages over three weeks -- following his July 28 bust on suspicion of misdemeanor DUI. Read More

Twitter post at developer conference leads to upset Internet and two people jobless

A bizarre chain of events stemming from a tweet made last Sunday at a developers’ conference has left two people without jobs. Developer evangelist Adria Richards for the email firm SendGrid was offended by two men at the PyCon conference in Santa Clara making what she interpreted as sexual jokes involving the word 'dongles.' Read More

Charlie Sheen mobilizes Twitter followers against daughter’s alleged bully

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Charlie Sheen has been on good behavior for the most part, but then someone went and messed with his kid. Now he wants revenge on his 9-year-old daughter’s school for not protecting her from alleged bullying. “if you have a rotted egg a roll of toilet paper or some [dog s***]; I urge u to deliver it with "extreme prejudice" to their KamPuss run by trolls and charlatans. make me proud,” he tweeted. Read More

Liam and Miley call off wedding, sources say

Liam Hemsworth, Miley Cyrus
Liam Hemsworth and fiancée Miley Cyrus are splitsville, according to multiple sources. Inquiring minds could see the writing on the Twitter wall when rumors spread last week that Hemsworth had been seen in the company of “Mad Men” star January Jones. Read More
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