The lines have gotten even blurrier since the Internet kneecapped newspapers. In the past few years, media companies called themselves tech companies, then that distinction became meaningless. In between, tech honchos spent their loose change on magazines and newspapers or just financed their own.

For 20 minutes or so today, Gmail was unavailable, and a million corny tweets flitted in and out of white-collar attention spans. Among them was a short, subtle, teasing message from Yahoo!, ribbing its chief corporate competitor with a simple notice that "Gmail is temporarily unavailable" and a screenshot of an error message. Hours later, it apologized. This is pathetic.

The name Ben Grossman might sound familiar if you read it here, this October, after the Head of Global Operations for Twitter Media sent an infamously gross "joke" about loosing dogs on striking transit workers. Make that former Head of Global Operations for Twitter Media.

Last July describing the cultural impact of Black Twitter, Buzzfeed's Shani O. Hilton wrote, "It's diffuse, powerful, and all around you." That's the kind of active, influential user base that startups dream of. But we've barely heard a peep about it from Twitter. Now that it needs ad revenue, that's changing.

I understand why Town & Country shoehorned three techies into their "Sexiest Bachelors 2014" list. If coders are the new bankers, and bankers were the new imperial vassal lords (or something), it fits. To a regressive glossy, powerful parvenues are the best bachelors—but try not picking the creepiest in Startupland.

Twitter is not a profitable company. Maybe it's on its way to becoming one, or will be someday, but the company's most current numbers show it taking a loss. But as the New York Times makes clear, plenty of myopic, gung-ho investors are trading Twitter like it's Exxon.

Twitter, quite literally, bought and paid for San Francisco's City Hall, which bled blue last night for the company's holiday party. Looks like Ron Conway's investment in Ed Lee was a real home run! Images via @Stop

As expected: NYT reporter Nick Bilton's treacherous Twitter tale has been optioned for the (small) screen—Lionsgate is going to spin it into a TV series, with the same producer as "The Hunger Games," which is oddly appropriate.

A series of events: the New York Times writes about how insulated Twitter is from its destitute urban surroundings. Twitter engineer writes that, well, if you've made it into the company's offices, you've deserved it.

What's more irksome than a stream clogged up with tweets about a TV show you don't watch? Unsolicited alerts from Twitter that your friends are talking about a TV show.

It only took half a year for the un-beating heart of America's tech sector to show any unified opposition to NSA dragnet techniques: ReformGovernmentSurveillance.com is a lazy piece of PR dreck—and about as transparently self-serving as it gets.

Late Friday afternoon Twitter released its "secret correspondence" with the Securities and Exchange Commission leading up to the IPO. The previously private documents show that the SEC had a lot of pressing questions about "slowing user growth and whether people were losing interest in viewing ads." But the company didn't always provide satisfactory answers.

No more dick jokes: Twitter's streak of dude-only directorship ends today, with the appointment of Marjorie Scardino to its board. All it took was everyone yelling at them for a few weeks. Sarah Lacy shrugs.

Twitter’s IPO filing lifted the veil on all manner of investors who wished to keep their good fortune out of the public eye, like secretive Hollywood investor Suhail Rizvi. A new lawsuit from a Brooklyn dad revealed another: his ex-wife, two degrees removed from Jack Dorsey.

Researchers found 20 million fake Twitter accounts for sale this summer, reports the Wall Street Journal. That would mean almost 9% of Twitter's monthly active users are fake—nearly double the 5% figure cited in its IPO filing.

The New York Times says Twitter is "providing lawyers to help fight evictions" as part of its tax break agreement with San Francisco. Isn't that like asking Peter Thiel to donate to a college scholarship fund?

When the inevitable Twitter movie inevitably beams into theaters, no one will play Dom Sagolla. It's not because he doesn't want to be part of the story: for the past several years, he's toured the world as a self-proclaimed inventor of Twitter. He's not. So why hasn't anyone ever called him out?

Twitter's IPO motto may be "less Facebook, more LinkedIn." But it's repeating a crucial mistake that, in Facebook's case, led to class action lawsuits for selective disclosure. Only this time, it's Goldman Sachs instead of Morgan Stanley.

It's Facebook Twitter IPO day! After months of SEC reviews and roadshows and profiteering, FB TWTR will finally take its place in the Nasdaq NYSE menagerie. Time to start digging up your backyard bullion stash, right? Wrong. For the average guy the Facebook IPO is strictly Like Fave, don't touch.