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Twitter’s @TrumpDraws mocks executive orders with toddler doodles

We’ve been writing a lot of content about Donald Trump, and who can blame us? The man has become a living, extremely powerful meme…

20 SA game development personalities to follow 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…

#BeyoncePoseChallenge: has Beyonce’s Instagram pose become a thing?

In the wake of Beyonce’s Instagram-shattering announcement earlier this morning, the internet has understandably gone a little bit insane. A byproduct of that however,…

Tonight’s Premier League Deadline Day will be livestreamed on Twitter

Transfer deadline day is one that football fans across the world love dearly, and a day Premier League managers hate. But another company eagerly…

Twitter to launch new anti-harassment features

Twitter has been waging a lengthy war with online bullies and trolls, introducing several key features over the past year or two. Between filing multiple tweets…

14 football stars to follow on Twitter during the ’14 Fifa World Cup

The World cup will undoubtably be a major trend on Twitter in the month to come. Kickoff is a mere two days away, so…

Africa’s mobile ways fit in well with us, says Twitter

Twitter seems hell-bent on pushing its business solutions for small- to medium-sized businesses, and like many big tech companies, Africa has entered its sphere of thought….

Remembering a poet and an icon: Twitter mourns Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou, the renowned poet, novelist and actress, has died aged 86 sparking a wave of mourning on Twitter. During her long career, Angelou…

Fake Twitter accounts show just how ‘well’ SA government understands communication

Perhaps the announcement that the (former) Department of Communications, responsible for the broadcasting and telecoms sectors in South Africa, would be renamed to the…

Twitter’s testing a feature that suggests videos to accompany your hashtags

Yep, Twitter’s trying something new… again. The social media site appears to be testing a new video sharing feature, which automatically generates a list…

What exactly would Twitter stand to gain in buying SoundCloud?

If the rumour mill is to be believed, then the recent spate of massive tech acquisitions is unlikely to slow down any time soon….

Silence at last: Twitter adds a mute button for iOS and Android

We’ve all experienced it: the fellow Twitter user we love following, but who occasionally overshares from an event or gets involved in the kind…

Twitter’s self-serve ad products hit South Africa

Starting today, small businesses in South Africa will have full access to Twitter’s full range of self serve advertising products, including Tweets and Accounts….

Ad Dynamo partners with Twitter to push social ads in Africa

Wanted to get in on the Twitter advertising universe but don’t know where to start? Now you have another option besides navigating the waters…

#someonetellsouthafrica: South Africans side with Kenyans in Twitter ‘war’

Yesterday South Africa’s Minister of Sport and Recreation Fikile Mbalula sparked a Twitter tiff when he made some less than savoury comments about Kenya…

6 numbers you need to know from Twitter’s first quarter results

When Twitter made its stock market debut, things looked pretty damn positive. In the immediate aftermath though things flattened out, at least in part…

Twitter stops the teasing, rolls out its new look to everyone

We’ve been teased for nearly a month but finally we get to have the new interface that looks incredibly familiar. As we’ve stated before…

Twitter tests browser notification feature with select users

Twitter, notorious for sneaky roll out experiments, is at it again. The latest in a series of Twitter tweaks is a desktop notification system…

Awkward: new Twitter looks just like Facebook

So Twitter has been whispering a redesign since February and it seems that the social network is about to unveil its new look, which…

Twitter set to up mobile game downloads with its new ad product

Twitter is reportedly on the verge of launching a new mobile ad product aimed specifically at app makers. According to Bloomberg, the product will…

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