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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…

Twitter 101: Where we’re @

Social media has provided us with platforms to have intimate one on one engagements on the one hand and has aided in the mass…

Four Twitter lessons Kim Kardashian could learn from Helen Zille

Kim Kardashian’s now infamous divorce has dominated the Twittersphere this week. In fact, days after the announcement, the topic was still trending (her cuckolded…

Memeburn’s 50+ prominent South African journalists on Twitter

The rapid uptake of Twitter by the general public is often ascribed to celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher, Lady Gaga, and Demi Moore. In…

Four ways Helen Zille uses Twitter well

Social media has always presented an obvious opportunity for politicians. As Barack Obama’s campaign advisers were quick to note, social media offers a convenient,…

#AskHelenZille — Climbing the trends

South Africans are once again proving the amplification of their Twitter reach. This time it’s with Democratic Alliance leader, Helen Zille, who has inadvertently…

How Twitter’s changed the world in your pocket [infographic]

It’s unlikely that when co-founder Jack Dorsey first came up with the idea for Twitter at the age of eight, he envisaged that it…

What happens when you fire your Twitter ghost-writer

Memeburn has previously warned its readers about taking (often self-declared) “social-media experts/ninjas/gurus” too seriously, and Mark Davidson is the perfect example of why. On…

South Africa’s 30 biggest Tweeters

Though it’s said time and again that the number followers one has on Twitter really means nothing, be it ours or another’s, it’s a…

The genie is out of the bottle, and he’s tweeting now

Six weeks ago I wrote a piece for one of South Africa’s Sunday papers, the Sunday Times, on the role that Twitter plays in…

Twitter community rallies to stop tweeted suicide attempt [Updated]

A Twitter community in South Africa rallied to prevent a potential suicide this weekend, as a Durban-based mother of two dramatically tweeted an attempt…

Data: Tweet lots of links to get followers

As I’ve said before, “if you’ve seen me speaking, or read my stuff, you may know that one of my favourite past times is…

Twitter now looking to monetise from ecommerce

Twittter chief executive Dick Costolo has announced that in addition to its current money-maker, advertising, Twitter — in keeping with its monetisation drive —…

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