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January 8, 2016
Maxwell Neely-Cohen
NBA Twitter is Changing the Way We Watch Sports
The NBA is tailor-made for social media—will that help it supplant the NFL as America's game?
January 7, 2016
Adam Peck
Worthwhile Canadian Tweet.
January 5, 2016
Alex Shephard
Twitter is considering upping its character limit from 140 to 10,000. (Though if you really want to, you can tweet 10,000 characters right now.)
December 28, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
Jeb Bush has the perfect sense of humor for our time, and he doesn’t even know it.
November 20, 2015
Navneet Alang
Don’t Delete Your Digital Past
What happens when we erase our online lives?
November 12, 2015
Gabriel Snyder
Edward Snowden’s first rule of privacy is: Remember how to keep a secret.
November 4, 2015
Jacob Silverman
How Monopoly Capitalism Is Ruining Twitter
The social network's rigid simplicity has been a liability from the beginning.
October 21, 2015
Johannah King-Slutzky
Tyler Oakley’s Radical YouTube Memoir
The social media star, beloved of One Direction fans, guides us through gay millennial culture
September 29, 2015
Ann Friedman
How (and Why) Do You Create a Personal Brand?
A Twitter conversation with Ann Friedman
September 29, 2015
Ann Friedman
Me, Inc.
The paradoxical, pressure-filled quest to build a “personal brand.”
April 3, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
How Will Hillary Break the Internet?
By announcing her candidacy with these hip technologies
January 9, 2015
Phil Hartup
I Was Once a Racist, Sexist Jerk. Thank God I Didn't Have Twitter.
December 16, 2014
Theodore R. Johnson
Don't Let "Black Lives Matter" Become Another Ice Bucket Challenge
December 1, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
GOP Staffer Shouldn't Have Scolded Sasha and Malia on Facebook. But She Shouldn't Resign.
October 13, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
A Senator Tweeted My Ebola Story. Then Things Got Ugly.
October 3, 2014
Esther Breger
Dear White People, You Need To See 'Dear White People'
A Q&A about moviemaking, race, and Shonda Rhimes with the film's writer and director.
July 1, 2014
Alice Robb
Facebook Did Screw With You, and It Wasn’t Even Worth It
June 13, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
A Defense (Sort of) of Twitter
I don't tweet, but I see why some of you do
June 10, 2014
Miles Kohrman
The Smart Fan's 2014 World Cup Social Media Guide
All the feeds you need to be following, right now
May 5, 2014
Adam Kirsch
Dear Facebook, I'm Fed Up
How social media has changed indignation

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