In December 2013, the website was sold to Salem Media Group, a conservative Christian broadcasting corporation that had purchased Malkin's political blog Hot Air in 2010.

"[5] The website aggregates tweets, creating stories and organizing them into short posts.

[6] The site has seven full-time employees and two-part-time writers who live in different areas of the United States.

Writing for Cosmopolitan, Jill Filipovic characterized Twitchy as a harassment tool that targets liberal journalists, often disproportionately featuring people of color and women.

[1] According to a 2014 article in Slate, Twitchy had "carved out its own odd niche in the D.C. media world" and was "the rare site that has both broad-based and cult appeal.