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The @City_Raccoon Returneth

After a six-hour break, the Twitter critter returns to waddling and scavenging.

It seems the reports of @City_Raccoon’s death were, if not greatly exaggerated, premature. After the unmasked bandit signed off yesterday afternoon, his outer, Jonathan Goldsbie, took some heat from the Twittersphere (some sending friendly jabs, some REAL MAD). Maybe it was to halt the Twitter uproar, or maybe the little guy just has a insurmountable [...]

Surprise! You’re Opening for Louis C.K. Tonight

They responded to a tweet Saturday evening and a few hours later, Steven Page and Darren Eedens were on stage at the Sony Centre.

View “Whatever Louis Wants, Louis Gets” on Storify

Queen’s Park Watch: Does Twitter Matter?

For all the hoopla around social media and elections, does the former really make any difference in the latter?

Last week’s provincial election was the first in which social media were mature enough to play a role. That fact proved a boon for tv networks, not only providing old-school talking heads another way to fill dead air while waiting to see which former Walmart greeter had won the day in North Huckleberry, but introducing [...]

Kevin Sorbo Garbage Weekend Dumps a Heap of Laughs on Fans

TV's Hercules did a weekend in residence at a local comedy club. Here's why.

When Gary Rideout Jr. (owner of Comedy Bar, and founding member of comedy troupe The Sketchersons) got a phone call from Kevin Sorbo (the actor best known as the rock that the syndicated shows Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda were built on) about the posters for this past weekend’s comedy shows, Rideout [...]

Tweeting Toronto’s Heritage, One Plaque at a Time

You may notice a large surge in people tweeting about Toronto's history this weekend. Here's why.

If KPMG's Core Service Review accomplishes nothing else, it has at least prompted Torontonians to defend and promote those elements of city life they value most highly. So far we’ve seen an all-night session of deputations at City Hall and efforts to combat any cuts to the Toronto Public Library.

Toronto’s Twittering Classes Make Our Day

Last week, we reached a milestone—over 30,000 followers on Twitter—and we’re celebrating with a list of 25 Torontonians whose tweets make our day.

Todd Van Allen Explains the Origin of #New911Calls

Yesterday, after a council debate in which Rob Ford invited Toronto residents to call 911 if they witness someone "causing graffiti," Twitter users followed the mayor’s lead by posting more than a thousand similarly 911-appropriate concerns such as “Lonely” and “I can’t get a Google+ invite,” accompanied by a #new911calls hashtag.

One Year Later: Toronto Police, Social Media, and the G20

Last Friday as news broke that an officer had been charged with assault in connection with the violent takedown of Dorian Barton on June 26, 2010, the official police twitter feed was sending out photos from a welcome-home ceremony at Pearson Airport for some cops returning from a police mentoring mission in Afghanistan.

App Development Lessons from TweetMag’s Geoff Teehan

A few weeks ago, Twitter celebrated its fifth birthday. Back in 2006, no one—not even the creators—could have imagined how the micro-blogging site would blow up in popularity nor how it would evolve. Twitter users have seen its usefulness as a channel for news distribution, but also that it can become cluttered with people’s random [...]

Pizza Parlour Bust Brings Out City’s Inner Ray Romano

Where you going, dude? Pizza’s not here, man! Photo by Christopher Drost/Torontoist. So unless you live under a rock—or are in Pizza Gigi’s target demographic and don’t wake up until 5 p.m.—you’ve probably heard the news that the venerable slab shack at Harbord and Lippincott streets was raided late Sunday, and Toronto Police located all [...]

With Muskets Muted, The Man Behind Toronto’s Rebel Mayor Finally Speaks

Photo-lllustration, based on this photo of William Lyon Mackenzie, by Kyra Kendall/Torontoist. Eleven and a half months before this year’s municipal election ended, William Lyon Mackenzie signed up for Twitter. Mackenzie, the City of Toronto’s first mayor—dead since 1861—was @rebelmayor, and when we interviewed him a month after that, he told us in no uncertain [...]

Rob Ford’s Team Created a Fake Twitter Account, and This Is It

UPDATED @QueensQuayKaren, as her self-penned Twitter bio describes her, is a “Downtown Toronto gal who likes politics, my cat Mittens, and a good book.” She has a “George Smitherman for Mayor” twibbon. She also doesn’t exist. Two excellent, sprawling, behind-the-scenes articles just published about Rob Ford’s winning mayoral campaign, one from the Globe and the [...]