There is absolute chaos in Cairo, Egypt. And the chaos has been lighting up Twitter, where the masses have relayed every small instance of horror, each time affixed with the hashtags #egypt and #cairo. It’s really a stunning mess over there.
But there are happy things too! Media is saved thanks to The Daily, and Read More
The condescending masses often resort to making fun of the cartoon characters that make up the cast of “Jersey Shore.” Understandable, but there’s one thing that they are very good at: social networking. Witness the glory: Sammi Sweetheart (@MTVsammi), Pauly D (@DJPaulyD), The Situation (@ItsTheSituation), Jwoww (@JENNIWOWW), Read More
It’s hard to face the fact, but Glenn Beck is a role model to a good number of people in this country. That’s why it was especially disturbing when he told America to give up one of their kidneys in order to see Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark. Please, America, do not take this Read More
If your name is Arianna Huffington and you run a website called The Huffington Post, you have been conditioned to believe you have a mandate that allows you to use your cell phone when mere mortals are not allowed to. One of these no-phone zones happens to be an airplane as it is taking Read More
Twitter can be many things, but has anyone turned it into gorgeous music? Perhaps the first man to ask if such a feat is possible would be Josh Groban, the guy whose buttery voice fills all of suburbia’s mom-helmed minivans with pulsating arias and sonatas. And if there were a Twitter feed that could stand Read More
We didn’t need Twitter to tell us that there was a massive blizzard happening outside, but without the gung-ho tweeting of Newark mayor Cory Booker many of his city’s residents would still be stuck in the two feet of powder.
Yes, perhaps the average human being lacks the superpowers that allowed Booker to communicate with Read More
It was looking, for a moment, like we were headed to a weekend spent watching Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption, and March of the Penguins: Twitter was abuzz with news that Morgan Freeman had died. But thankfully, the tweets of his demise were greatly exaggerated; instead, it was a fake retweet of a CNN Read More
It’s quite possible many of us will always imagine Taylor Swift as the 16-year-old blond twang-voiced ingenue who burst on the scene and wowed the industry with her precocious songwriting. So it may shock you that she has a full 21 years on her now. Well, it wouldn’t be a surprise if you’re one of Read More
Unlike Tumblr, Twitter didn’t crash for 19 hours this week. In fact, the opposite happened: Twitter was chock full of non-stop wisdom, wit, and wonder. And like every week The Observer is here to deliver the goods, serving up heaping of tweeted knowledge in tasty slideshow-sized bites. Come on in! How can you resist Read More
Another insightful and life-affirming week in the Twitterverse! Sure, you could have spent all your time trying to digest the deluge of revelations in the WikiLeaks cables. That stuff is sort of important. But why do that when you can refresh Twitter.com over and over again, looking for those nuggets that explain the world with Read More
