What Twitter thinks it knows about you is often wrong. Here’s why

CNBC’s Wilfred Frost is retired, and Landon Dowdy makes over half a million running her own business. Those are some of the conclusions drawn by Twitter’s newly available demographic inferences, which are based on behaviors outside of the social media...

Only 6% of applicants get into Yale—one teen got in after writing her essay about Papa John’s pizza

The prestigious Ivy League school not only accepted Williams in March, but the admissions office reached out to her specifically about the essay. “As a fellow lover of pizza, I laughed out loud (then ordered pizza) after reading your application,” wrote...