Home » Topics » Tweet

You can be an a**hole on Twitter, or you can accomplish something in life

Only 80 percent of Americans are online and, of those that are, only 8 percent even look at Twitter on a daily basis, according to the Pew Research Center. Quick math: that means even if everyone in America followed you on Twitter, that’s only about 6.4 percent of the country.…

French president’s partner regrets firing tweet at her companion’s ex

French President Francois Hollande’s partner Valerie Trierweiler admitted Wednesday she had made a mistake in firing off a tweet snubbing Hollande’s ex-companion and said she regretted it. “It was a mistake that I regret. I must have been clumsy because this was badly interpreted,” Trierweiler told newspaper Ouest-France. “I had…

Twitter sets off jitters as ‘bug’ hits site

Twitter said a “cascading bug” caused outages affecting millions of users of the wildly popular site, and dismissed claims of a hacker attack. The outage led to a barrage of complaints and comments, some serious and others ironic, which the company said underscored “how critical Twitter has become.” The on-again-off-again…

Hackers tweet ‘Obama assassinated’ from Fox News account

A group of hackers broke into a Fox News Twitter account Monday and tweeted that President Barack Obama had been shot and killed. “BREAKING NEWS: President @BarackObama assassinated, 2 gunshot wounds have proved too much. It’s a sad 4th for #america. #obamadead RIP,” one tweet said. The report is obviously…

Secret Service Twitter page laments having to watch ‘blathering’ Fox News

The official Twitter account of the U.S. Secret Service posted a tweet on Wednesday afternoon that blasted Fox News. “Had to monitor Fox for a story. Can’t. Deal. With. The. Blathering,” the tweet said, before being deleted almost immediately, according to the Huffington Post. “An employee with access to the…

Fox White House correspondent tells Twitter critic to take a hike

A believer of evolution might think with so many critics out there — liberal, presidential or otherwise — that Fox News reporters would develop thick skin. But a grammatically challenged Tweet by a user with just two followers managed to unnerve Major Garrett, the Senior White House Correspondent for Fox…