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#SouthAfricaIn3Words: one complex country, one complex hashtag

South Africa. Another large, populous country in southern Africa that harbours a wealth of promise, but hasn’t yet lived up to it this century….

#HandsOffZuma vs #ZilleMustGo: a hashtag war is brewing on Twitter

Social media users might seem to travel altogether in fast-flowing streams and strong currents, but that’s rarely ever the case. While there are more…

15 South African politicians worth following on Twitter [Digital All-Stars]

Digital All Stars is a series of articles which aims to celebrate the best of South African digital. The articles, which will appear on…

Twitter Lite is a web app for those living the data struggle

Twitter has announced that its mobile site is now more convenient for the 45% of global mobile users working on 2G or slower networks. Dubbed Twitter…

South Africa govt: social media messages ‘sent to disturb the economy’

Since South Africa’s landmark cabinet reshuffle last week Friday, chatter on the country’s online social spheres has been laden with disappointment, minimal support and…

Twitter eggs are fried, users respond

If you took a relaxing weekend away from social media, then count yourself lucky: you missed the chaos that is a Twitter design change….

Twitter cleans up conversations, users still complain

If you’ve ever tried to have a conversation on Twitter, you will know just how clunky and difficult it can be. If your friend’s…

Marmite and Bovril take their beef to Twitter in #BattleOfTheSpreads [Update]

People love personifying things, which is probably why we love these Twitter battles between competitive brands, places and things flaring up on social media…

8 Vines showing just how intense the Ferguson protests are

While a picture’s worth a thousand words, six seconds of footage can say so much more. According to Twitter Reverb over 3.5-million tweets were…

Twitter now lets you share tweets via DM

Ever wanted to show someone on Twitter a tweet without the rest of your followers seeing it? Well, if you have their email address…

Shock, embarrassment, wit: SA turns to Twitter after Parliament fiasco

Chaos broke out in Parliament late last night after riot police were called into the National Assembly to remove MP Ngwanamakwetle Mashabela from the Economic…

Cell C just pissed off the wrong people, massive banner ad sparks big laughs on Twitter [Update]

One of South Africa’s major telecom firms is starting the weekend on a bad foot. A massive billboard stating that the network operator is “the…

Twitter saves Twitpic’s domain and archive at the last minute

We reported last week that Twitpic was shutting down. It was going to close shop on 25 October and that all the photos on…

Lion’s Head, Devil’s Peak and Northcliff Hill spark SA’s latest Twitter war

Twitter‘s a cavalcade of strange people with even stranger opinions. Take the #ThingsLongerThanOscarsSentence trending hashtag yesterday after the Oscar Pistorious verdict if you need…

People in France can now transfer money with tweets

“That would be five tweets for the croissant, thank you.” There seems to be two major trends brewing with Silicon Valley’s top tech giants…

Twitter reactions mixed as Malema trial postponed

Julius Malema appeared at the Polokwane High Court in South Africa on charges of fraud, money laundering and racketeering related to a Limpopo roads…

SA’s so-called ‘blackface’ scandal reignites racism debate on Twitter

Only a few months ago, two girls from the University of Pretoria dressed up as maids for their friend’s birthday party. They painted their…

Five reasons why African developers should go to Twitter Flight

As you all know by now Twitter has finally launched a mobile developer conference. Think f8 for Twitter. As the platform describes it, Flight…

No more reboots: it’s time for Hollywood to stop getting ideas from Twitter

On a cool summers evening in 1998, at the tender age of 12, my best friend at the time convinced me to watch I…

Twitter confirms it’s testing a ‘buy now’ button

In what is probably the least surprising piece of news of the year so far, Twitter has confirmed that it’s testing a “buy now”…

Twitter wants you to help it find bugs so it can’t get caught with its pants down

Amidst a brewing storm of leaked nude photographs, Twitter is yelling into the dark, to the outer fringes of tech society, inviting all hackers…

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