In a significant policy shift, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, has announced the termination of its third-party fact-checking program in…
8+ ways social media is influencing the ANC
South Africa’s oldest political party, the African National Congress (ANC), is embracing the social media revolution like never before. The party is increasingly using…
Social search, at what cost?
In 2011 “Social Search” became a hot topic as Google introduced “Realtime Search” via the Twitter “firehose” and Bing began to index Facebook. In…
Tweet-by-tweet sex: Would you chronicle your conception attempt?
Perhaps I have stumbled upon the first ever recorded conception on Twitter… Before the advent of social media sites like Facebook, sex was the…
ANC takes Twitter by storm
It takes large organisations weeks, or even months, to grasp the power of social media. In the case of South Africa’s ruling party, the…
