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Science Health

Covid's Cassandra: The Swift, Complicated Rise of Eric Feigl-Ding

He’s an expert on Twitter virality, but not on infectious disease. Does he do more help or harm?

Jane C. Hu Undark Nov 2020 Permalink

Tech

The Risk Makers

Inside the tech industry’s decades-long failure to reckon with risk.

Catherine Buni, Soraya Chemaly One Zero Sep 2020 35min Permalink

Tech

The Conscience of Silicon Valley

Tech oracle Jaron Lanier warned us all about the evils of social media.

Zach Baron GQ Aug 2020 20min Permalink

Tech World

How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter

Two well-liked Twitter employees accessed thousands of users’ private information and illegally passed it to the Saudi Royal Family, per the FBI.

Alex Kantrowitz Buzzfeed Feb 2020 10min Permalink

Business Media

Pet Project

Can a college sophomore turn WeRateDogs into a puppers empire?

Megan Greenwell Esquire May 2017 20min Permalink

Tech

The Man Who Built the Retweet: “We Handed a Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds”

The button that ruined the internet—and how to fix it.

Alex Kantrowitz Buzzfeed Jul 2019 10min Permalink

Movies & TV

Roseanne Barr Just Can’t Shut Up

“I admit it,” she says, in her hotel room. “I’m a troll. I’m the queen of the fucking trolls.”

Geoff Edgers Washington Post Mar 2019 20min Permalink

Politics Health

The Strange Case of Eugene Gu

A surgeon tastes viral fame via Twitter and then things get really weird.

Laura Yan The Verge Mar 2019 Permalink

Tech

Jack Dorsey Has No Clue What He Wants

A Q&A with Twitter’s CEO on right-wing extremism, Candace Owens, and what he’d do if the president called on his followers to murder journalists.

Ashley Feinberg Huffington Post Jan 2019 20min Permalink

Sports

A Macedonian Tennis Racket

How a 20-year-old from the land of fake news tricked Martina Navratilova, Serena Williams, and the BBC.

Ben Rothenberg Slate Feb 2018 20min Permalink

Tech Media

One Person’s History of Twitter, From Beginning to End

“What happens when the thing that might save you is also the thing that might destroy the world?”

Mike Monteiro Medium Oct 2017 10min Permalink

The Toxic Drama of YA Twitter

Young-adult books are being targeted in intense social-media callouts, draggings, and pile-ons — sometimes before anybody’s even read them.

Kat Rosenfield Vulture Aug 2017 15min Permalink

Media

A Whimsical Wordsmith Charts a Course Beyond Twitter

Jonny Sun created a beloved, mega-popular alien character on Twitter. Now he’s trying to figure out everything else.

Jesse Lichtenstein New York Times Magazine Jun 2017 10min Permalink

Business Tech

“A Honeypot for Assholes”

Inside Twitter’s 10-year failure to stop harassment.

Charlie Warzel Buzzfeed Aug 2016 25min Permalink

Business Tech

Twitter Is Betting Everything on Jack Dorsey. Will It Work?

It’s been a rough year.

Nick Bilton Vanity Fair Jun 2016 20min Permalink

Media

Access Denied

Famous people and the media have always needed each other. It has been a long, mutually beneficial (and mutually profitable) partnership. And it’s over.

John Herrman The Awl Dec 2015 25min Permalink

Politics

In Conversation: DeRay Mckesson

An interview about Black Lives Matter and the last 18 months of activism in America.

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Rembert Browne on the Longform Podcast

Rembert Browne New York Magazine Nov 2015 30min Permalink

Tech

All Is Fair in Love and Twitter

On the service’s multiple origin stories.

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Excerpted from Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal.

Nick Bilton New York Times Magazine Oct 2013 25min Permalink

Politics

‘Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us.’

Following two leading figures of the #BlackLivesMatter movement through five months of protests.

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Jay Caspian Kang on the Longform Podcast

Jay Caspian Kang New York Times Magazine May 2015 25min Permalink

World

My ISIS Boyfriend

A French reporter went undercover as potential “caliphette” and recieved a marriage proposal from a senior ISIS commander.

Margarette Driscoll Sunday Times of London Mar 2015 10min Permalink

Arts

The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas

A profile of the internet’s poet, Patricia Lockwood.

Jesse Lichtenstein New York Times Magazine May 2014 Permalink

Tech

That Goddamned Blue Bird and Me

On Twitter’s pleasures and perils.

Kathryn Schulz New York Nov 2013 10min Permalink

Arts Tech Music

Gratuitous Pictures of Your Grief

On the late singer Judee Sill, the virtual cemetery site Find a Grave, and memorials in the age of the Twitter RIP.

Lindsay Zoladz Pitchfork Feb 2013 10min Permalink

Tech

How Much Tech Can One City Take?

How a burgeoning tech workforce swallowed San Francisco.

David Talbot San Francisco Magazine Oct 2012 20min Permalink

Sports

Rape Case Unfolds on Web and Splits City

A rape case in which most of the evidence lies in the archives of Twitter and Instagram divides a football-crazed town of 18,400.

Juliet Macur, Nate Schweber New York Times Dec 2012 Permalink

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