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‘Twitter effect’ takes hold of San Francisco’s mid-Market area

By: Dan Schreiber 09/04/11 4:00 AM
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If the four decades of sluggish revitalization progress in The City’s mid-Market Street neighborhood are any indication, it will take more than street murals to fix the heart of San Francisco. The plight of the violent and run-down section of Market Street — roughly between Fifth Street and Van Ness Avenue — has been taken on by almost every mayor since the 1960s, but small efforts have not given way to many lasting fixes. Read More

Hacker group Anonymous strikes BART website, protesting 'censorship'

By: Ari Burack 08/15/11 4:00 AM
Anonymous strikes BART website
Making good Sunday on its promise to attack BART’s website in a “censorship” protest, the shadowy Internet activist group Anonymous defaced the transit agency’s myBART site with its logo and released personal information — including passwords — of at least 2,400 of the site’s users. Read More

Have San Francisco job-killers gone out of business?

By: Marc Intermaggio 08/07/11 11:00 PM
Could leaders of dysfunctional political processes in Washington and Sacramento actually learn lessons in governance from San Francisco’s elected officials? Just a year ago that would have produced a belly laugh, back when fractious ideological bickering characterized policy debates beneath the gold dome. But the new crowd there has often set a higher standard for taking care of The City’s business — literally. Read More

Radio host's tweet about San Francisco Giants shows dangers of social media

By: Bob Frantz 08/07/11 10:30 PM
Just two weeks after telling the story of New Mexico basketball coach Steve Alford banning his players from using Twitter, in what will likely be a futile attempt to prevent them from embarrassing themselves and their program, here we go again with another case of the little blue bird that destroys careers. Read More

How many of President Obama's Twitter followers are fake?

By: Charlie Spiering 08/03/11 4:29 AM
It's complicated, but after an ex-staffer suggested to Gawker that many of Newt Gingrich's Twitter followers were fake, PeekYou, a New York search company has run their complicated algorithm to determine that only 8% of Newt Gingrich 1.3 million followers are "verifiable humans." Read More

Obama's Twitter #fail

By: Charlie Spiering 07/30/11 5:15 AM
When you have over 9 million followers, its not a terrible thing to lose 40,000 followers, but President Obama's social media experiment seems to have backfired, insofar as it generated the wrong kind of headlines. Read More

New Mexico basketball coach wise to ban players from Twitter

By: Bob Frantz 07/24/11 11:03 PM
Bill Cosby once hosted a short-lived television series in the late 1990s called “Kids Say the Darndest Things.”Steve Alford would have hated it. In fact, Alford is so annoyed with the darned things kids say — at least with their fingers — that the New Mexico men’s basketball coach has taken the controversial step of banning his players from using Twitter. WTH? R U kidding? Y would he do that? Read More

Mayor Ed Lee kicks off ‘question time’ with local economy

By: Joshua Sabatini 07/12/11 2:53 PM
In the latest installment of question time, (the fourth if you care) which has now become the butt of many jokes for how boring or farcical an exercise it is, Mayor Ed Lee showed up at the Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday and answered a presubmitted question from Supervisor Mark Farrell about what he plans to do “before leaving office Read More

San Francisco-based BackType acquired by Twitter

By: Staff report 07/05/11 10:46 AM
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San Francisco-based BackType, a service that allows people to track the impact of their social media usage, has been acquired by Twitter, according to a post on the company’s website. Read More

Top Tweets: Obama's press conference and corporate jets chatter

By: The Examiner 06/29/11 10:45 AM
Taxes on corporate jets seemed to be a reoccurring theme of President Obama's press conference today. Journalists, activists and even members of Congress took to Twitter to discuss the validity of Obama's remarks that higher taxes on corporate jets would significantly reduce the national debt. Post your favorite tweets from the press conference in the comment section below: Read More
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