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Kim Jong Un and ‘dotard’ Trump get the internet excited about words again

US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un may be engaged in a game of nuclear table tennis, but at…

Instagram ‘advertises’ itself on Facebook with rape threats

Instagram has come under fire for advertising itself on parent company Facebook’s platform with a screenshot of an email that read “I will rape…

Instagram gives you a new way to embarrass yourself in live video

Instagram will soon allow users to apply awkward Face Filters to their live video broadcasts. “Starting today, you can play with face filters while…

Nambia vs Namibia: how a fictional country became more popular than a real one

You can always trust US President Donald Trump to say something controversial, whether it be on Twitter, or at the UN General Assembly. But…

Russian Facebook pages may have organised pro-Trump rallies

Suspected Russian Facebook page Being Patriotic organised pro-Trump and anti-Clinton rallies in the build-up to the 2016 US election, The Daily Beast has found. On 20…

Twitter’s efforts to cull pro-terror content seems to be working

Twitter’s latest transparency report reveals that the platform’s effort to cut down on pro-terror content is working. According to the report, the first half…

Here’s what the web thought of the 2017 Emmy Awards

Every year, Hollywood’s television bigwigs get together in one room to praise each other and themselves at the Emmy Awards. This year’s ceremony, hosted…

Your Twitter feed will start autoplaying videos in the near future

Your Twitter timeline is about to hog a lot more data. The social network is rolling out video autoplay as a standard feature. First…

Google takes on Twitch with YouTube Gaming

Despite the fact that gaming’s had dedicated TV channels in some Asian countries for years now, it took the advent of Twitch.tv for live-streams…

Life after Dick: Twitter needs to ignore Wall Street, concentrate on users

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has resigned after five years on the job. Twitter’s subscriber growth has slowed, the company recorded subscriber growth of 18…

Sonic the Hedgehog’s Twitter account is brilliant at converting trolls into followers

By now we know that a good online presence can do a lot for a brand. It doesn’t matter if it’s two decades old…

Instagram opens feed to businesses to increase revenues

Instagram has expanded its ad product offering as it looks become a financially viable entity. The Facebook-owned company announced on its blog that it…

Facebook takes on Pinterest’s buyable pins, expands beta test for ‘buy’ button on Shopify

Today, Facebook announced that it is inviting Shopify merchants to a beta test of its ‘buy’ feature. The feature allows users to buy things…

Facebook drops $1bn internet satellite plan

Facebook’s plan of building an Internet Satellite connection for parts of the world has fallen. According to a report from The Information, project was…

Latest Twitter update makes it easier to follow conversations

Twitter is huge. There is no two ways about it and now in 2015, it has been said that a fifth of internet users…

UEFA Champions League final got 28m people talking on Facebook

As FC Barcelona romped to a 3-1 victory over Juventus in Saturday’s UEFA Champions League final, millions of people around the world appear to…

Twitter bot corrects users referring to Caitlyn Jenner as ‘He’

It’s been a little over a week since Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, introduced herself to the world, but people don’t seem…

YouTube’s new ‘Music Insights’ tells artist in which city they are most popular

YouTube has introduced a new tool for artists. Called Music insights, its function is to give artists data about where their music is being…

5 things you need to know about how South Africans use Twitter

Over the years, our understanding of the South African social media landscape as a whole has grown in leaps and bounds. Thing is, the…

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Kim Jong Un and ‘dotard’ Trump get the internet excited about words again

Instagram ‘advertises’ itself on Facebook with rape threats

Instagram gives you a new way to embarrass yourself in live video

Nambia vs Namibia: how a fictional country became more popular than a real one

Russian Facebook pages may have organised pro-Trump rallies

Twitter’s efforts to cull pro-terror content seems to be working

Here’s what the web thought of the 2017 Emmy Awards

Your Twitter feed will start autoplaying videos in the near future

Google takes on Twitch with YouTube Gaming

Life after Dick: Twitter needs to ignore Wall Street, concentrate on users

Sonic the Hedgehog’s Twitter account is brilliant at converting trolls into followers

Instagram opens feed to businesses to increase revenues

Facebook takes on Pinterest’s buyable pins, expands beta test for ‘buy’ button on Shopify

Facebook drops $1bn internet satellite plan

Latest Twitter update makes it easier to follow conversations

UEFA Champions League final got 28m people talking on Facebook

Twitter bot corrects users referring to Caitlyn Jenner as ‘He’

YouTube’s new ‘Music Insights’ tells artist in which city they are most popular

5 things you need to know about how South Africans use Twitter

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