An app that alerts you to potentially suicidal tweets from the people you follow on Twitter raises ethical and even legal questions. 

November is National Novel Writing Month. This year, for the second time, it's also National Novel Generation Month

Artist Elizabeth Simins made something to draw attention to a particular and often ignored form of abuse. 

Make sure to get your hands on a tweet-umbrella.

On Twitter, people are using the hashtag #IfTheyGunnedMeDown to respond to the way the media shows young black men killed by police.

A few weeks ago, writer Katie Notopoulos created a holiday called Unfollow a Man Day, wherein everyone (women and men) was encouraged to Unfollow a Man on social media. Men's rights activists were enraged, cable news was intrigued, and a lot of people felt quiet relief. This week PJ talks to Katie about her mission and her manifesto.

A few weeks ago, writer Katie Notopoulos called on the Internet to devote one day a year to unfollowing a man on social media. Men's rights activists were enraged, cable news was intrigued, and a lot of people felt quiet relief. On the latest episode of TLDR, we talk to Katie about her mission and her manifesto.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Twitter is testing out a new feature for hashtags. The way it seems to work is that searching for a hashtag will yield a translation of what Twitter thinks that hashtag means underneath the search term. Twitter declined to comment about the feature for the Journal, so the details remain a mystery.

Twitter's CEO did an interview. If you followed it on Twitter, it didn't go great. 

Cory Arcangel is an artist whose work often deals with the way we interact with technology. His latest project is a book comprised entirely of people tweeting about how they're working on their novels. You will be not at all surprised to learn that it is called Working On My Novel.

Late last night, the official Twitter account for the Environmental Protection Authority accidentally tweeted an excited proclamation about their success in the Kim Kardashian's new mobile game, which invites you to "create your own celebrity and rise to fame and fortune!" 

The Internet you experience depends on who the Internet thinks you are.

We're still waiting for an @TLDRedits account to appear. 

What happened when a black woman writer went online disguised as a white man? She got a lot fewer death threats, for one thing.

 

 

A number of Twitter bots are monitoring Wikipedia edits made from national legislatures around the world. 

On July 2nd, NPR education blogger Anya Kamenetz landed in hot water for the following tweet: 

I reach out to diverse sources on deadline. Only the white guys get back to me :(

— NPR's Education Team (@npr_ed) July 2, 2014

Two weeks ago, The Washington Redskins hired liberal blogger Ben Tribbett to help defend their name, which Native American groups have been petitioning them to change. 

Pangrams! Sentences that use every letter of the alphabet! You can definitely live without them (unless you happen to be a typographer), but why would you want to? Fortunately, you don’t have to live without them anymore, at least on Twitter.

Are you bummed because Facebook secretly manipulated your newsfeed to make you sad? Jonty Wareing has just the tool for you. 

Former fictional radio host Kelsey Grammer has begun using Twitter, and is supposedly hell-bent on correcting the grammar of wayward Twitter users.