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Japanese Twitter is Going Crazy for This Cat Who Really Loves Eating Vegetables
Many might agree that there is something very satisfying with watching random cute animals munch on things. Recently, Japanese twitter user @poooom4 uploaded several videos of one veggie obsessed cat named Hokuro, and watching him eat is the most adorable thing you’ll watch…
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Japanese People Vacuuming Harmonicas on Twitter is Too Glorious to Handle
A new trend that is both ingenious and beautiful is taking over Twitter in Japan and you have to hear it to believe it — vacuuming a harmonica. One simple video from Twitter user @CelloMetalgirl has since gone viral with more than 230,000 retweets:
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Asian Americans Flood Twitter To Explain What #BeingAsian is REALLY Like
Asian-American netizens got together when #BeingAsian broke out in Twitter on Tuesday. The conversation, started by 17-year-old Michael Tarui, asked “what it’s like #BeingAsian and the racism that comes with it.” I'm in a group chat and we've decided we should start a…
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Valedictorian Brags About 4.5 GPA, Full-Ride Scholarship and Illegal Alien Status on Twitter
A female valedictorian got on the nerves of the Twitter community after she bragged in a tweet about her 4.5 GPA, full-ride to the University of Texas, nice legs and undocumented status. Mayte Lara, a graduate of Crockett High School in Austin, recently took to Twitter to…
· Editorial Staff
Mark Zuckerberg Got His Twitter Hacked After Using the Worst Password Ever
A Saudi Arabia-based group of hackers that call themselves “OurMine” briefly hacked the Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram accounts of Mark Zuckerberg over the weekend, but it’s the password that the Facebook CEO used that has many shaking their heads. OurMine, who claimed to just…
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Twitter is Going Crazy Over the Optical Illusion on This Cat
A Japanese photographer under the Twitter handle @hanamomoact has made the internet crack a smile with a cat, an optical illusion and a little imagination. The photographer, currently living in Al-`Ain in the United Arab Emirates, photographed a peculiar looking cat as it…
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Twitter Users are Shaming This High School Valedictorian for Earning $2.8 Million in Scholarships
A high school valedictorian in Alabama who boasted about her accomplishments on social media is getting backlash from peers. Mari Filer, from Tuscaloosa, graduated at the top of her class with an impressive 4.56 GPA. She also earned over $2 million in scholarship money.
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Interns at Pinterest, Snapchat and Twitter Make an Insane Amount of Money
The word “internship” usually conjures up ideas like “unpaid” and “free labor,” but there are certain internships that are perhaps even better than real jobs. A University of California, Berkeley student recently compiled a list of all the top tech companies that pay their…
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Saudi Man Gets 2,000 Lashes, 10 Years in Prison Over His Twitter Account
A man in Saudi Arabia was sentenced to over 10 years and 2,000 lashes over his tweets about atheism. He was also tasked to pay a fine of $ 5,300 by the court, according to the Associated Press. The unidentified man was arrested by the Saudi religious police after he was…
· Max Chang
ISIS Just Threatened Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey in a New Video
A group of ISIS supporters who call themselves the “Sons of Caliphate Army” have issued threats against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey in a video released on Wednesday night, according to Vocativ. In the video, called “Flames of the Supporters,”…
· Ryan General
Kanye West is Begging Billionaires to Give Him Money on Twitter — And it’s Apparently Working
Kanye West lit up Twitter yesterday with a flurry of tweets that revealed a $53 million personal debt before begging billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page for money to fund “Kanye West ideas.” Right before his appearance on “Saturday Night Live,” where he performed two…
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Twenty-Two-Year-Old Twitter Playboy Claims Sleeping With 400 Women Ruined His Sex Life
If you’re the kind of guy who wishes they could just have sex all day long with hundreds of beautiful women, this man will tell you that it really sucks. Benny James, 22, of Croydon, U.K. claims that he’s had so much sex that it’s virtually ruined his life at a critical time…
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This is What a Bunch of Rich Dudes Bickering on Twitter Looks Like
Billionaires don’t take kindly to people who bash on their T.V. shows as one Silicon Valley investor learned after suggesting that the iconic show “Shark Tank” was a waste of time for entrepreneurs. Paul Graham is one of Silicon Valley’s defining venture capitalists and…
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Man Documents All the Reasons Why His Wife Cries in One Hilarious Twitter Post
A husband’s handwritten list of all the things that have made his wife cry is cracking up netizens. Aaron Gillies, 28, tweeted that his wife Lex, who he has been married to for a year, “cries at absolutely anything” and that he “started writing the reasons down because reasons.”
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One Of Silicon Valley’s Biggest VCs is Allegedly Blocking Female Entrepreneurs on Twitter
Aminatou Sow, the founder of Tech LadyMafia, a group that increases visibility and opportunities for women in tech, recently called out Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen for blocking female entrepreneurs on Twitter. Her post on Medium, which is an open letter to…
· Riley Schatzle
Vanity Fair Throws Major Shade at Tinder; Passive-Aggressive Twitter Meltdown Ensues
salas Tinder recently lashed out at Vanity Fair and one of their journalists for publishing an article that links their company to the “dating apocalypse”.
· Riley Schatzle
Animal Lover Deadmau5 Blasts David Guetta on Twitter For Using a Live Horse On Stage
David Guetta’s recent “Fuck Me I’m Famous” residency party at Pacha Ibiza really pissed off Deadmau5. Guetta thought that having a real live horse walk onto stage would be an interesting party idea. A man wearing a headdress rode the horse onto stage while women dressed in…
· Laura Dang
Google, Facebook and Twitter’s Black Employees Could All Fit Inside a Single Plane
The combined number of black employees at Google, Facebook and Twitter can fit on a single Airbus A380. By law, companies are obligated to disclose their full EEO1 reports, which detail the race and gender demographics of their employees. According to these reports, out of…
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Steps Down, Billionaire Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Takes Over
Twitter announced today that CEO Dick Costolo will be stepping down at the beginning of July and that Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey will be back to assume the role of interim CEO. In 2008, Dorsey was booted as Twitter’s CEO (which was filled by fellow co-founder Evan Williams)…
· Augustine Reyes Chan
That Terrifying Moment When You’re Twitter’s CEO and Global Terrorists Threaten to Kill You
The Islamic State, or ISIS, threatened the life of Twitter employees, including founder Jack Dorsey, online this weekend after Twitter shut down accounts relating to the insurgent group. ISIS called on jihadis to kill Twitter staff because the social media company keeps blocking…