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• What your favorite YouTubers did before they got famous, according to that viral Twitter meme

  A Twitter meme has people revealing their job history -- YouTubers included. So what did famous 'Tubers do before they hit ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Here's what Democratic presidential hopefuls say about AI on Twitter (not much)

  In the era of Trumpian politics the public forum is no longer the evening news or the morning paper: it's Twitter. We decided to see which politicians were embracing the platform to discuss what we feel will be one of the most important issues of their potential presidency: artificial ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Notre Dame fire sparks Twitter conspiracy theories

  Various commenters on Twitter are using the burning of the beautiful, historic Notre Dame cathedral to further a number of absurd conspiracy theories, ranging from an Anti-Christian arsonist to... actually, that's the worst of them so far. Conspiracy theories and wild speculation ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Scientists are studying your tweets and it's not always ethical

  Who do you think reads your social media posts? You might assume that only your followers see your tweets and status updates — but someone else might be taking a close look. Scientists are increasingly using public social media data for research, and they’re not just examining ...

  • Casey Fiesler

• This tool judges your Twitter for subconscious gender bias

  Proporti.onl works by estimating the gender distribution of Twitter followers and follows based on their profile descriptions ...

  • Cara Curtis

• How to get Twitter's new 'Lights out' dark mode on iOS

  Twitter had a dark mode but now it's rolling out a darker mode called lights out for iOS that has true black background instead ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• PSA: Don’t change your birth year to 2007 on Twitter, or you’ll be locked out

  The new twitter hoax is about chanigng your birth year to 2007 so that you can get colorful theme. Don't fall for that, you'll ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Twttr is (very subtly) better than Twitter

  Twitter's tester app, the aptly named "Twttr," is perhaps not as different from the main Twitter as we'd hoped, but it's ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• People are slapping their babies with cheese because internet

  Very often on the internet, you see videos where you want to laugh, but know you shouldn't. Or you suddenly do laugh, and ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• Here's who has the most juice in Twitter's AI influencer community

  The most influential people in the world of AI on Twitter might surprise you. We examine an Onalytica study on the reach ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Jack Dorsey's latest idea for kinda-editable tweets sounds like a reasonable compromise

  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently described a possible implementation of an edit button that would let you clarify or annotate ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• What we learned from Kara Swisher's brutal interview with Jack Dorsey

  Not much, tbh.

  • Matthew Hughes