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Twitter: No More Rape or Bomb Threat Tweets

Updates rules, adds 'report abuse' button, promises more staff to address threats

(Newser) - Twitter is finally cracking down on abuse after a number of incidents in the UK where high-profile women were threatened via tweet. Both a feminist activist and a politician were threatened with rape last month, while several female journalists were tweeted bomb threats, reports USA Today . After an online petition...

Rep. Cohen: Paternity Fiasco Makes Me Black

This apparently makes sense to him

(Newser) - It may be time for Steve Cohen to stop talking, tweeting, or communicating with planet Earth in any fashion, since it usually doesn't seem to end well for him. The congressman first got into hot water for tweeting affectionately at a much-younger bikini model, then claimed she was his...

Geraldo Selfie: '70 Is New 50'

No, he wasn't hacked; this was intentional

(Newser) - Rue the day the oldsters connected with the Twitters: Geraldo Rivera, apparently having decided that what's good for the Anthony Weiner is good for the aging media personality, took to his Twitter account last night to post a half-naked selfie, proclaiming, "70 is the new 50 (Erica and...

Follow Pope on Twitter, Get Time Off Purgatory Stay

Vatican offers 'indulgences' for social media use during Catholic World Youth Day

(Newser) - If you're a Catholic due to spend some time in purgatory before heading on up to heaven, we have good news for you: You can shorten the length of time you have to spend there just by following Pope Francis on Twitter , the Guardian reports. A papal court has...

Thom Yorke Slams Spotify, Pulls Music

Streaming is no good for new artists, he says

(Newser) - Spotify is all the rage at the moment, but according to Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, the streaming service is not good for musicians—at least not when it comes to new music. Things got rolling yesterday, when producer Nigel Godrich started tweeting against Spotify. Then Yorke picked up the cry,...

'Catch Me If You Can,' Tweets Fugitive

Shockingly, this story does not end well for San Diego woman

(Newser) - A fugitive convicted in a big insurance fraud scheme who taunted authorities via Twitter is now in custody in San Diego, reports the LA Times . The plight of Wanda Podgurski is getting national attention because of her bold tweets to the DA in San Diego County. "Catch me if...

Pink Fan, 16, Arrested Over Tweet

He made ill-advised reference to "Timebomb" song

(Newser) - An Australian teen found out the hard way that Melbourne police take tweets about bombs very seriously ... even if those tweets are just innocent references to pop songs. While attending a Pink concert, the male fan tweeted, referring to her song "Timebomb," "@Pink I'm ready with...

Royal Baby's Title Already Announced

Plus: Zara Phillips also expecting

(Newser) - According to the rumor mill , Kate Middleton could be popping out a royal baby any day now, so of course the gossip pages are already filled with "news" of the as-yet-unborn heir to the throne. You're not going to find out anything really interesting, like the sex...

Jennifer Love Hewitt Quits Twitter Over 'Bad Vibes'

Pregnant star says she was experiencing too much 'negativity'

(Newser) - Sorry, folks, but you will not be getting all the details of Jennifer Love Hewitt's pregnancy and eventual wedding on Twitter. She, like so many stars before her, has decided to step away from the social network, Celebuzz reports. Her account is still active, but she tweeted Wednesday, "...

Alec Baldwin on Twitter: 'Never' Again

And he wants to quit acting, too

(Newser) - Vanity Fair had the pleasure of chatting with Alec Baldwin just days after his latest Twitter rant . Ostensibly the interview was about a photo collection Baldwin curated and his new movie, Blue Jasmine, but of course Twitter came up. Asked whether he'll ever open his account again, Baldwin...

Offend Someone on Facebook, Go to Jail in Grenada

Being mean online could cost you $37K or 3 years behind bars under new law

(Newser) - This tiny Caribbean nation of Grenada will not stand for Internet trolls. The country's legislators have approved a bill that makes it a crime to offend people through sites such as Facebook and Twitter. According to the bill, the first of its kind in the Caribbean, complaints about offensive...

DOMA Dumped, Kristen Bell Proposes to Babydaddy

And Melissa Etheridge is getting married again

(Newser) - With DOMA overturned and gay marriage legal in California , all those celebrities who said they weren't tying the knot until gay couples could do the same have had their bluff called. So far, at least one such couple appears to be moving forward with a wedding: Following the Supreme...

Hot Twitter Account Is ... in Latin

Pope's Latin Twitter account is surprisingly popular

(Newser) - Latin may be a dead language, but it's very much alive on Twitter, thanks to an unexpectedly social-media-savvy old man: the pope. Pope Francis' Latin language Twitter account began under the auspices of Pope Benedict in January (it is the official language of the Holy See, after all), and...

@HillaryClinton Joins Twitter

Can 'tweets from Hillary' help her secure 2016?

(Newser) - "Wife, mom, lawyer, women & kids advocate, FLOAR, FLOTUS, US Senator, SecState, author, dog owner, hair icon, pantsuit aficionado, glass ceiling cracker, TBD..." That's Hillary Clinton's bio on her shiny new Twitter handle , which she launched today. Her move into the Twittersphere has fueled speculation that...

They 'Bristled,' but Google, Facebook Did Help Feds

NYT: No direct access to servers, but something like a 'locked mailbox'

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg, Google's Larry Page, and other tech executives have been loudly denying they gave the government "direct access" to their servers under the newly revealed PRISM program . ("We hadn't even heard of PRISM before yesterday," wrote Zuckerberg in his post . The "government does...

16-Year-Old Hacks Vine With Rickroll

Cleveland kid uploads full Astley video, later apologizes to Twitter engineers

(Newser) - Monday turned out to be a milestone day for Vine, the app for Twitter that lets users share six-second videos. Vine became available for Android that day, but the real coming-of-age moment arrived when a Cleveland teenager quickly hacked into the Android code and uploaded the full 3-minute-plus video of...

Kim Retweeted Twice as Often as Obama
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Kim Retweeted Twice as Often as Obama

We know. You're depressed.

(Newser) - Adding to your fears for the future of mankind: MIT researchers have built a tool that estimates that, on average, Kim Kardashian can expect to be retweeted twice as often as President Obama. The researchers came up with what they call the " Twouija: Retweet Oracle " to predict how...

Rupert Murdoch Quotes Koran in Weird Twitter Rant

May have something to do with murder of UK soldier

(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch and Twitter continue to make for an ... interesting combination. Yesterday the News Corp mogul randomly started quoting the Koran on his account , and Twitchy thinks it was in relation to a couple tweets he sent out the day before about the slaying of a UK soldier . Here...

Now Amanda Bynes Goes After Rihanna

But we're going to give the win to Rihanna

(Newser) - If you thought Amanda Bynes' recent arrest might have tempered her crazy behavior a bit, well, you were wrong. Yesterday morning, Bynes tweeted at Rihanna—for no apparent reason—"Chris brown beat you because you're not pretty enough," and followed that up with the even more poorly-written,...

Twitter Rolls Out Beefed-Up Security

Matches competitors with a 2-step log-in process

(Newser) - Twitter has finally rolled out its two-step log-in process , cracking down on security in the wake of a number of high-profile hacks and bringing it on par with other major tech companies. Called Log-in Verification, the new system adds an extra layer of security by allowing users to have a...

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