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How to Follow Gizmodo Nerds on Twitter

If you really want to get to know Team Gizmodo, we’re all on Twitter. You can think of it as Gizmodo unfiltered. With up to date links to our stories, hot gadget action, 140 character insights, and pictures of sandwiches. Any serious Gizmodo fan will want to follow everyone below. We give good Twitter. If…

Tech News Gizmodo Jul 27

You Probably Have More Twitter Followers Than These Pathetic Celebrities

Remember Zachary Ty Bryan, from Home Improvement? Probably not, which is why he has 486 Twitter followers, despite formerly being a teen heart throb and TV star. Turns out, lots of 90s celebs are now sad on Twitter. Neve Campbell! She was a sex symbol! Lots and lots of people wanted to have sex with…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 27

Man Who Made Airport Bomb Joke on Twitter Finally Found Innocent

Thank goodness for common sense. Paul Chambers, the man who joked he would blow-up an airport if it didn’t get its act together and actually work properly, has been cleared of his conviction from back in 2010 by the High Court in London. Obvious-Twitter-joking can now recommence. Chambers won the backing of Stephen Fry over…

Tech News Sam Gibbs - Gizmodo UK Jul 27

You Can’t Find Your Twitter Friends On Instagram Anymore

Unable to search for your Twitter friends on Instagram? It seems Twitter has blocked off API access. Ugh. It applies to the latest version of Instagram (2.5.1), so you won’t notice until you update . Regardless, that totally sucks. Perhaps this is Twitter’s way of pushing back against Facebook’s acquisition of the photo sharing network.…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jul 26

Here’s Why Twitter Was So Broken

Twitter was really freaking broken today. Which, well, sucked. Here’s what Mazen Rawashdeh, Twitter’s VP of Engineering, has to say about the outage. https://gizmodo.com/yes-twitter-is-fully-down-updated-5929272 The cause of today’s outage came from within our data centers. Data centers are designed to be redundant: when one system fails (as everything does at one time or another), a…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jul 26

The Internet Was Really Shitty Today (But I Still Love It)

What the hell happened to the Internet today? Google Talk? Down. Twitter? Crashed. Messages? Completely awful. Chrome? Blowing up my laptop. The weather? Shitty. My hangover? Slight but smelly. That all made me very grumpy. https://gizmodo.com/google-talk-is-down-5929212 Did the entire internet decide to shit the bed on Thursday July 26th 2012? Did it think we wouldn’t…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 26

Yes, Twitter Is Fully Down (Updated)

It’s not just you—Twitter is completely screwed. From the actual site to mobile apps, every way to send a quippy 140-character message is down. So what are you going to do during this total outage? Panic, probably. Update 1 12:25pm: The whole thing is so fried, it’s cursing at us. Hey Twitter, your code is…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jul 26

How Twitter Can Predict When Individuals Will Get Sick

If you’ve been walking around a public place lately, you’ve come in contact with a lot of people. Some of those people may have been sick. And if you’ve been hanging around enough of them as they cough and sneeze, then you might be about to get sick too. That may sound obvious, but Adam…

Health Michael Reilly - New Scientist Jul 26

Watch More Celebrities Read the Mean Tweets People Send Them

For famous people, Twitter is a medium where they can pretend like they’re ‘connecting’ with their fans while actually shilling products for cash monies, retweeting how great they are and… receiving hate tweets from anonymous Twitter snipers. So here’s a bunch of celebrities reading the hate tweets they receive on Jimmy Kimmel. Kimmel has done…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 25

The OS X Mountain Lion Survival Guide

Here’s a guide to what will make using all that ML stuff easier—and what’s going to make the new OS a pain.

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jul 25

Twitter Really Needs to Add These Features Immediately

As much as Twitter has grown over the years, it’s still a pretty bare bones service. Take for example its take on famous accounts, all Twitter does is slap a verified tag on it. But isn’t there more potential there? Couldn’t Twitter use verified badges to categorize Twitter accounts? College Humor thought so and cooked…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 25

Bane Capital tweets its corporate takeover of Gotham City

After Rush Limbaugh’s bizarre question as to whether Bane, Batman’s masked foe, could somehow be an anti-Mitt Romney conspiracy, one inspired Bat-fan decided Bane Capital wasn’t a shabby idea. Bane Capital is now tweeting reports about the liberation of Gotham’s corporate persons and how his anti-Batman mission creates jobs. https://gizmodo.com/the-batman-villain-bane-is-a-conspiracy-against-mitt-ro-5926874 Lampooning Limbaugh’s connection between the…

io9 Lauren Davis Jul 21

How to Avoid Spoilers on Twitter

Along with propagating inane hashtags like #NameYourDickAfterAMovie*, Twitter is also horribly ruthless when it comes to spoiling movies and TV shows. To prevent an unwelcome spoiler, you have to basically abstain from Twitter when a show like Breaking Bad comes on or when a big movie like The Dark Knight Rises comes out. But that’s…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 19

Evidence That Klout Doesn’t Make Sense, Visualized

Social influence-ranking service Klout is an odd thing indeed: it thinks Blackberry users are more important than Android Users, but believes our very own Kyle Wagner is a good mom, too. In truth, its rankings don’t intuitively seem to make much sense—and here’s some evidence that supports that statement. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-users-are-more-important-than-iphone-or-andr-5829139 Mark Graham from the Oxford…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jul 18

How the Air Force Stops Social Media from Spilling Military Secrets

Social media is a godsend of a tool for military families because it lets them communicate from thousands of miles away. But it can also be totally damaging to Operational Security (OPSEC), if a photo posted or a status reveals covert location data, which is the type of mistake that’s happened in the past. So…

Social Media Leslie Horn Jul 17

Working at Twitter Is Like a Disney Channel Show

What do the folks at Twitter do when they aren’t adding new features or likely having semi-erotic daydreams about an IPO? Justin Bieber flashmobs in the company cafeteria. Swoon. So how’d they do? Definitely well below the White Girls Rapping About Windows Phone threshold of cultural horror—that one guy can actually dance pretty well!—but it…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 15

How To Buy A Ton of Twitter Followers

We already gave you some genuine tips about how to be popular on Twitter. But earning thousands of followers and the adoration of the Internet takes time and effort. Don’t you know you can just—instantly, inexpensively—buy as much Twitter fame as you can handle? https://gizmodo.com/how-to-be-popular-on-twitter-5911554 Fiverr is a five-buck bazaar website much like GirlfriendHire. Only,…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 13

NYC Subway Gives Commuters Proof the Train Made Them Late for Work—A Month Later

In large cities, “The subway ate my homework” is about as common an excuse for being late to work as the ol’ doctor’s appointment. No one actually believes it. Luckily, New York’s MTA has an online system that gives you city-certified proof you’re telling the truth. Problem is, it’s slower than the city’s trains. Here’s…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jul 13

Do You Have a New MacBook Pro Retina? Do You Use Twitter? Then Get This

If you use Twitter’s official Mac app on a MacBook Pro Retina you know that it sucks. It’s a piece of unreadable blurry crap that makes me want to punch my computer. Thankfully, Tapbots came to the rescue with a gorgeous, Retina-optimized Twitter client: Tweetbot. Seriously, Mac developers, you need to get up to speed…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 12

Why Did You Join Twitter?

In early 2009, I was in a journalism class back at ol’ Mizzou. The professor asked who in the lecture was using Twitter. A paltry two or three students of the 150 budding Bernsteins raised their hands. She declared that that number must be multiplied exponentially, and required us all to make accounts. Reluctant at…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jul 12

How to Follow Gizmodo Nerds on Twitter

You Probably Have More Twitter Followers Than These Pathetic Celebrities

Man Who Made Airport Bomb Joke on Twitter Finally Found Innocent

You Can’t Find Your Twitter Friends On Instagram Anymore

Here’s Why Twitter Was So Broken

The Internet Was Really Shitty Today (But I Still Love It)

Yes, Twitter Is Fully Down (Updated)

How Twitter Can Predict When Individuals Will Get Sick

Watch More Celebrities Read the Mean Tweets People Send Them

The OS X Mountain Lion Survival Guide

Twitter Really Needs to Add These Features Immediately

Bane Capital tweets its corporate takeover of Gotham City

How to Avoid Spoilers on Twitter

Evidence That Klout Doesn’t Make Sense, Visualized

How the Air Force Stops Social Media from Spilling Military Secrets

Working at Twitter Is Like a Disney Channel Show

How To Buy A Ton of Twitter Followers

NYC Subway Gives Commuters Proof the Train Made Them Late for Work—A Month Later

Do You Have a New MacBook Pro Retina? Do You Use Twitter? Then Get This

Why Did You Join Twitter?

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