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Sarah Palin Says Julian Assange Is Good Now, Recommends Watching Snowden

After Fox News aired an interview between motorcycle-wanter Sean Hannity and animal costume-enthusiast Julian Assange, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin took to Twitter and Facebook to apologize to the Wikileaks founder. She also recommended her fans check out Oliver Stone’s Snowden, calling the film “quite enlightening.” Providing a link to Assange’s Fox News interview,…

Pakistani Minister Tweets Nuke Threats @ Israel After Reading Fake News

Oh, my god, it’s spreading. Donald Trump has made all important diplomatic announcements via Twitter, so far. Now, Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif has jumped into the nuclear threat tweeting game. https://gizmodo.com/trump-literally-just-called-for-a-new-nuclear-arms-race-1790436917 According to the New York Times, Asif tweeted this on Friday after reading some fake news about Israel: The tweet is still…

Why Is Donald Trump Suddenly Interested in the F-35?

President-elect Donald Trump sent Lockheed Martin stocks plummeting on Monday morning after he published a hostile tweet about the huge cost of the F-35 Lightning II program. By now, it’s well known that Trump’s tweets have a tendency to set the daily news agenda on his own terms. For example, last week Trump tweeted about…

Trump Bitches About Air Force One Upgrade He Won’t Get to Enjoy, Lies About Costs [Updated] 

President-elect Donald Trump woke up from a Big Mac-induced coma this morning to send off a tweet about Air Force One. Big Donny says the latest versions of the Air Force One being built by Boeing have become too expensive, and that the order should be canceled. It’s worth wondering if Trump actually wants to…

This Might Be in the Top 5 or Even Top 10 Tweets of All Time

I’ve seen a lot of great tweets in my life, but holy shit—this recent tweet from Ad Age is incredible: After people on Twitter started freaking out, the advertising blog followed up: Have you ever seen a tweet that beats this? Share your favorites in the comments section.

No, Amazon, You Did Not Do This Right

Someone at Amazon is trying to tweet, and they want some feedback. Well, speaking as a Twitter expert, Amazon did not do this right. I don’t make the rules. Sorry, better luck next time. Amazon has deleted this tweet.

Once Again, You Can Read Politicians’ Deleted Tweets

Politiwoops used to be the go-to place to read tweets that politicians thought were clever, before quickly deleting. Twitter cut off the service last year over alleged misuse of its developer platform, but now it’s back, and saving more deleted tweets than ever. In a blog post, the Sunlight Foundation has announced the return, “just…

Twitter Extends Useless Feature To More People In Desperate Plea For Attention

Twitter has had a rough year—and it’s only February. Following the departure of four executives, the company is looking for any good news to ride into its earnings call on February 10. To drum up enthusiasm about the service, Twitter is now extending a basic feature it rolled out early last year as part of…

Twitter’s Expanding Its Search to Include Any Tweet Ever Tweeted

Ever think of a tweet someone sent weeks or months or years ago, but you just can’t find it? Now, according to Wired, Twitter will let you search for those forgotten 140-character messages, without going elsewhere. Until now, Twitter search has been lacking. If you want to search keywords or hashtags, okay, sure, no problem.…

Reader’s Digest Will Pay to Retweet You in Print

You there! Hooligan! How much to retweet that tweet about butts in our weekly print periodical? Twenty-five dollars, you say? Sold! At least, that’s how we’d like to imagine it went down. Because as more and more traditional newspapers are being forced to shutter their doors in favor of their internet-based brethren, the ones that…

How Twitter Plans to Take Over Your Phone

Twitter is branching out beyond tweets: The company is launching a software development kit today, called Fabric. With Fabric, Twitter intends to take over your phone. Fabric offers a simple toolkit for developers to create their own apps. It’s a nice new option for developers… and if they use it, the results could be huge…

The #1 News Station in Memphis Accidentally Tweeted a Pornhub Link

If you’re wondering about the rain and storms in Memphis, you might have gotten a big surprise in your Twitter feed today. WREG News Channel 3 briefly directed its Twitter followers to a link that not only had zero radar information about the #memstorm—it was a PornHub user’s profile. As often happens, whoever runs WREG’s…

Twitter Finally Lets You See Just How Few People Are Faving Your Tweets

After quietly testing out its handy new analytics dashboard just over a month ago, Twitter is officially opening the service up to the rest of the world. And the results can be—er, kinda depressing. The widespread release was confirmed earlier today by Ian Chan, a front-end engineer at Twitter: Now, any tweeter with an account…

A Mesmerizing Globe of Emoji Tweeted Around the World in Real Time

Checking out Emoji use on Twitter is nothing new, but new web app Silicon Feelings is the first we’ve seen to pull the tweets’ geolocation data, too. The result is absolutely mesmerizing. Created by Bradley Griffith, the site actually pulls its data from Emoji Tracker, though it only displays a) the most popular emoji and…

Twitter just revealed that pop-up interaction notifications will roll out in the coming weeks. Meaning that when you’re logged on via twitter.com, you’ll get notifications for replies, retweets, and faves—assuming you’ve tweaked your settings to display them. [Twitter]

25+ Famous People’s First Tweets That’ll Make You Feel Better About Yours

Today is Twitter’s 8th birthday and it got you a gift. With Twitter’s new First Tweet tool you can look back at your (or anyone else’s) first tweet without hours upon hours of scrolling. We took the liberty to round-up a few of the best and worst from some noteworthy tweeters. And we’ll let current…

The 50+ Best Tweets About the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger

In case you missed it, Comcast and Time Warner Cable have officially confirmed their intentions to be come one gigantic conglomerate of suck. The internet, understandably, found this upsetting! Here are the funniest, angriest tweets about your new favorite monopoly:

If Twitter Timelines Were Real Physical Things How Long Would They Be?

Given the amount of inane gibbering that fills your Twitter timeline, it can sometimes take an age to scroll through all that… insight. But what if it was a real, physical, thing? How far would you actually be scrolling? Obviously that’s a little like asking how long a piece of strong is; depending on who…

The 30+ Best Tweets About iOS 7’s Shaky Launch

iOS 7 came out today, and obviously Twitter was there as always give insightful/snarky commentary. Here are the best thing people had to say about the software update in 140-character form: https://gizmodo.com/go-download-ios-7-right-now-1340946172

Tweetdeck Just Got a Little Bit Prettier

Tweetdeck’s got a gift for you today. No, unfortunately it’s not fixed notifications, but it’s still a step in the right direction. Meet the new, prettier tweet panel. It makes firing off 140-char screeds a little more pleasant. https://gizmodo.com/tweetdeck-just-got-worse-and-twitter-blames-google-932378381 Instead of the old, gross white box that would pop up in the middle of your…