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Adam Joseph Wades Into Major Jersey Shore Linguistics Controversy

Check phillymag.com each morning Monday through Friday for the latest edition of Philly Today. And if you have a news tip for our hardworking Philly […]

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Pour One Out for the PA Treasury Twitter Account

No one should ever be subjected to the jokes, quips or musings of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups on Twitter. Unfortunately for us, the marketing consultants […]

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Jim Kenney Reads Mean Tweets: The Last-Term Edition

Philadelphia might be a slightly less celebrity-starved town lately on account of Jason Segel and the return of Kendall Jenner, but let’s face facts: We’re […]

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Penn Study Finds People Who Send Longer Tweets Are Less Mean

You need only spend about 20 seconds online to realize that, for all of social media’s grand ideals about promoting information and interconnectivity, the reality is that they end up […]

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Hall of Shame: Philly’s Greatest Social Media Fails

We’ve seen nothing more bizarre than the Twitter scandal that felled Sixers GM Bryan Colangelo this spring. (Short version: His wife used burner accounts to […]

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Sixers Boss Bryan Colangelo Resigns in Wake of Twitter Scandal

To doomsday-obsessed 76ers fans, the Bryan Colangelo Twitter scandal was an embarrassment of such epic proportions that it very well had the potential to jeopardize […]

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Did Internet Sleuths Solve the Bryan Colangelo Twitter Mystery?

On Wednesday, we told you the bizarre tale of five anonymous Twitter accounts and their supposed link to 76ers general manager Bryan Colangelo, who purportedly […]

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Was the Sixers GM Using Anonymous Twitter Accounts to Criticize Players?

Is it possible for the head of a professional basketball organization to have such thin skin that he would create multiple anonymous Twitter accounts to […]

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WATCH: Mayor Kenney Responds to Your Mean Tweets

Being a political figure in the social media age must be rough. Before, when critics spoke badly of you, it always remained behind closed doors. […]

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Carson Wentz Is Done for the Season: Philly Reacts

Sorry, Philly Jesus, but your prayers apparently fell on deaf ears: The Eagles have just confirmed that quarterback Carson Wentz will miss the remainder of […]

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Here’s Why Philly Is Covered in Ginkgo Leaves Right Now

If you haven’t seen carpets of ginkgo leaves on Philly’s streets this fall, you’ve probably seen them littering your Instagram or Twitter feed. And just in […]

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What We Learned From Dario Saric’s Epic Twitter Takeover

When thinking about personality and the 76ers, the first player to immediately come to mind is center Joel Embiid. With the big man’s exploits already […]

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Lenny Dykstra’s Unsolicited Advice to College Graduates: Work

Former Phillies centerfielder Lenny Dykstra fancies himself an erudite man. Don’t ask us how, but somewhere along the way Nails got the impression that people […]

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New Eagle Chris Long Trolls Whining Teammate With Tough-Love Tweet

Newly minted Eagles defensive end Chris Long has yet to play a snap in midnight green, but the Super Bowl champion is already endearing himself […]

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Why Did Daylin Leach’s Trump Tweet Explode Like That?

Daylin Leach has been making jokes on the Internet about as long as I have. Okay, maybe he wasn’t posting image macros in AOL chatrooms […]