Words With Friends (game)

Like a lot of Americans, Amalie Drury has grown very attached to her smartphone. The 33-year-old Chicago writer checks the device multiple times a day for Facebook updates and email messages. She brings it into the bathroom when she brushes her teeth....

For a few moments this weekend, the world thought they had a chance to go head to head with Michael Phelps -- on Words With Friends, that is. The Olympian accidentally revealed his screen name for the game, sending it out to his nearly 200,000 Twitter...

Somewhere out there, a guy named Leon is also known as Big Tiny. I learned this after randomly accepting a Words With Friends game invite. I assumed I was playing a WGN viewer until my opponent messaged, "Leon, is that you?" I guess the person expected an...

When we showed up to the University of Texas at Arlington, there was this fear that no one would be playing Words with Friends during the lunch break.  That fear quickly disappeared.  “We have little challenges, competitions, and see who wins,&...

“You can learn more about a person in an hour of playing 'Call of Duty' than in a year of conversation.” -Plato, paraphrased Hello, fellow gamers. We don’t know each other yet, but I need to ask: Will you co-op with me? You see, I want...

Can't get enough of those virtual cows and crops from FarmVille? Good news, agrarians: Zynga toys and games are coming this fall. Hasbro, the big-time toy company responsible for My Little Pony and Monopoly, announced Thursday that it has bought the...

As we pored over the transcripts of the newly declassified John F. Kennedy recordings—45 of the 248 hours of taped conversations during his White House years—our thoughts turned immediately to social media. Most of us aren't tweeting about...

More came out Wednesday about an incident where NBC star Alec Baldwin was kicked off an American Airlines flight for refusing to turn his cell phone off. It all started with a tweet from Alec Baldwin on Tuesday afternoon.  “Flight Attendant on...

Note to airlines: Can you please stop kicking celebrities off your planes? Alec Baldwin is the latest in a string of high-profile kerfuffles based on what to me - person who was not there - seems some very thin reasoning. And then there's: -Country...

It's a beautiful thing to walk through life in love with words. (Not so beautiful when Words With Friends is the object of your affection, as Alec Baldwin will attest.) Ejection from American Airlines flights and ensuing Twitter battles notwithstanding,...

Alec Baldwin said it got him kicked off a plane. John Mayer called it "the new Twitter." Both celebs are obviously fans of Words With Friends, but neither can boast the game hooked them up with the love of their life, like Megan Lawless and Jasper...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo -- There is an app for just about everything. It isn't surprising that the demand for people to design those apps has spiked in recent years. For those looking for a job, there's an app for that. "I've always loved being on the cutting...