Communications Major

Jack Dorsey fancies himself a philosopher. He fancies himself an artist. He fancies himself a fashion designer. And he fancies himself the kind of man who can run two multibillion-dollar companies at the same time. Between those ambitions and that beard, Dorsey sounds a bit like the most interesting man in the tech world. Which might be, at this point, exactly what Twitter needs.

After a series of Twitter posts in response to a Vanity Fair article on dating and technology, Tinder acknowledged that it overreacted.

While billions of people wonder how to use Twitter, those that "get it" love a good beef between two one-time R&B sensations.

Product cadence" and "momentum of execution." Those were the buzzwords repeated by Twitter's incoming interim CEO Jack Dorsey and outgoing CEO Dick Costolo, in an exclusive interview on CNBC Friday morning, following news of a management overhaul.

Dorsey, Twitter's co-founder, the company's Chairman, and also Square's CEO, broadcast loud and clear that the company's already working hard on changes to make Twitter more appealing. He likes the plan, and he's sticking with it.

Users taking advantage of the live-streaming app Periscope to watch the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight saved themselves about $100 and sent a potentially worrisome signal to pay-per-view companies and rights holders.

Of Twitter's 284 million users, 24 million are just machines — apps or pieces of software — that ping Twitter's platform automatically "with no discernable user action involved," according to the company's disclosures to the SEC.

The fact that 8.5% of Twitter's "users" are not actually doing anything on the platform might be a problem.

Wyoming loves watercress, Texas loves brisket and, perhaps most surprising, Oklahoma is obsessed with the pickle. Those were the results of a recent analysis of food-related language on Twitter,...

Companies like Facebook and Twitter are experimenting with their feeds, sometimes to the chagrin of users who like things the way they are.

Twitter has released updated figures on how many of its users are automated, saying about 20 million accounts are probably bots of some form or another — but there is an upside to that number.

You know those little blue check marks next to names of Twitter account holders "verifying" for the rest of us that these folks are indeed the real deal? Like has-been TV star and ad pitchman William Shatner? You wouldn't take a tweet from an "unverified" William Shatner seriously, but a "verified" William Shatner? Well, heck, it's like he's speaking directly to you - and only you - through your Twitter feed. Apparently, Shatner thinks the little blue check mark should only be bequeathed to those of his stature (and presumably above). Social media managers be damned.

Apparently Shatner, who has a social media manager himself (according to his Twitter feed), took to firing off his own tweets over the weekend. His social media guy must keep 9-5, M-F hours and be unavailable during downtime for damage control. Which makes those little blue check marks all the more dubious, don't you think?

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd went to Colorado, where she ate legal edible weed and ended up "curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours." The Twitterverse subsequently exploded with wittier than usual tweets. Which scores yet another point for stoners - they are funnier than alcoholics. 

A series of tweets about sexual harassment, rape, and misogyny, categorized under the hashtag #YesAllWomen was started after Elliot Rodger, a 22-year-old man, went on a shooting spree on Isla Vista, near the University of California Santa Barbara, killing six people before committing suicide. In the weeks leading up to the killings, Rodger posted a series of angry, bathetic YouTube videos and a 137-page autobiographical “manifesto,” declaring his hatred of all women for the rejection and disdain he claims they dealt him throughout his life.

The social network will now allow millions of merchants to include buy buttons inside their tweets, allowing Twitter users to buy a product with as few as two taps.

Can technology help communities become more responsive to their citizens? A report from a town that’s ahead of the curve.

Some Twitter users lashed out in sometimes profanity-laced replies that exhort the president, who is using @POTUS, to kill himself and worse. The racist angle is particularly disturbing. 

P!nk responded to Internet criticism on Twitter about her weight gain, saying her body is having "some much deserved time off. And, then she signed off as "Cheesecake". 

Bow down to Art History.

2016 is only two years away, people! Does the baby's name (Charlotte) secure North Carolina for Hillary? And other ridiculous media coverage of this blessed event.

Twitter has updated some key language on its help page that indicates a permanent change in what users will see in their timelines.

Rock worlds collide on Twitter when singer Lana Del Rey (she of the album title "Born to Die") says "I wish I was dead already," and gets beaten back by Frances Bean Cobain (she of union between dead rock icon Kurt Cobain and still very-much-surprisingly-alive Courtney Love). Click on the link to read more if you care...