The internet service we use to follow celebrities and call people racist just broke some bad news to Wall Street: Twitter is still unprofitable, and not enough people are even willing to try it out.

Twitter still doesn't make money, which is a problem when you're a publicly traded company. Part of the social network's financial ascendance could be the pitch it's making to TV networks: we will bring you (and your advertisers) valuable eyeballs. What if that's just not true?

This week, a number of Twitter users reported a strange phenomenon. The alarm bell icon on the notifications tab displayed a number for favorites, follows, and retweets when there was nothing new to report.

The "pounding" tech stocks have been taking in the public market has forced Silicon Valley to wonder if a startup's ability to make a profit really does matter after all. But don't expect a moment of reckoning.

New Bay Area rules: every tech company demonstration must have a gimmick. The Tax Day protest outside Twitter had stick-on mustaches mocking Mayor Ed Lee; the one outside Apple had $15 billion coupons.

Senior Twitter engineer Dana McCallum, a well-regarded advocate for transgender and women's rights in the tech industry, was arrested in January and charged with raping her wife, according to The San Francisco Examiner.

NEMA, the luxury apartment building located 256 feet from Twitter's Mid-Market headquarters has been ham-fisted in its attempts to woo The Vested. They have to be when one-bedrooms start at $3,388/month.

Recode reports a Twitter engineer, Sara Haider, is ditching the company for Secret, the secret-sharing phenom app. This is great news for the latter, bad news for the former, and lovely news for anyone excited to share more anonymous gems.

We almost made it through a single day of since the advent of the computer without someone typing something really dumb, but $900 million messaging company Viber broke the streak with this special holiday message.

It's 2014 and Twitter isn't a profitable company—but did you see how many retweets Ellen got last night? The Hollywood selfie seems like a giant business coup for ad-reliant Twitter, but it says more about the power of a century-old technology than anything else.

Twitter, which is not a profitable company and enjoys a cushy tax break from the city of San Francisco, has purchased two wood cabins to be installed within its cafeteria, the Marin Independent Journal reports.

You can't crown yourself the voice of this generation without a little tech cred. Why else has Lena Dunham been popping up around Silicon Valley this week?

Yesterday, we called the coalition behind "The Day We Fight Back," an initiative protesting mass surveillance, to find out why NSA-friendly tech giants had not signed up alongside Reddit, Tumblr, and other companies for today's event. Just wait, they said.

Last week: Twitter's stock price plunges after a weak earnings report, and still no sign of profitability. Today, Twitter's Head of News, Vivian Schiller, enjoys a New York office "champagne tasting," provided by Moet.

Twitter just released its first quarterly earnings report. With earnings of per share of 4 cents on revenue of $243 million, the company "well surpassed" estimated revenue, however user growth has slowed. Stock dipped on the news. Perhaps Dick Costolo can use his stand-up skills during the earnings call to convince Wall Street otherwise.

After months of reporting, TheStreet found more than a thousand of Twitter profiles advertising escorts and dominatrixes, and at least two international networks of escorts that "rely on the Twitter platform to promote and execute their services."