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Fans pay tribute to Terry Pratchett with these magical quotes

After 66 inspiring years and a career spanning 70 magical books, fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett passed away yesterday. According to an official letter…

#CricketFire vs #CapeFire: the story of a fire and a One Day International

After a fire broke out in the Cape’s Southern Peninsula on Sunday, hundreds of Capetonians took to Twitter to share incredible photos from the…

Tweets from space for Star Trek’s Spock following actor’s death

Leonard Nimoy, the actor best known for his groundbreaking role as Spock in the original Star Trek, passed away last week at the age…

ISIS targets Jack Dorsey and Twitter employees over its terms of service

That escalated quickly. Last night ISIS supporters rallied behind an anonymous post online calling for jihadists to attack Twitter over removing the Islamic State’s messages on…

These were the biggest Oscar moments on Twitter

The 2015 Academy Awards were, as we’ve already written, probably the geekiest in history. It should hardly be surprising then that they also attracted…

#ArsenalLive: Arsenal players talk to fans on Twitter

In what could be a very cool trend for football teams around the world, English professional football club Arsenal F.C held a question and…

Buy your theatre ‘tweet seats’ today. Really?

I saw this tweet asking whether or not people would welcome the concept of tweet seats and subsequently read the article it pointed to….

Social media, iPhones and the death of photojournalism [Infographic]

Aah, citizen journalism and social media… the trends that have professional photojournalists clutching their Nikons in fear. Well, kinda. The power of social media…

Online censorship is the new black

Online censorship, it would seem, is no longer the preserve of governments bandying around acronyms like SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA. Google and Twitter both…

10 Ways to annoy your Twitter followers

When I finally joined Twitter in 2007, it came as a welcome relief. I had become so sick and tired of Facebook and all…

Your Twitter following — more than friends

You see it everywhere: “Follow us on Twitter!” For good reason, too. Businesses correctly recognise Twitter as a major marketing tool – a way…

Stephen Grootes and the company-employee Twitter dilemma

Stephen Grootes is cool. He’s one of those passionate, enthusiastic journalists that you really enjoy listening to on the radio. And he’s a prolific…

Occupy Twitter in the name of the global citizen

Twitter can now censor tweets by country. National borders, drawn on paper and defended with razor wire and guns in the physical world, now…

Seven top tips for verifying tweets

Twitter is like the coffee machine in the newsroom. Get a shot of caffeine, chat with colleagues, exchange useful information, but also get the…

Young mobile users responsible for most Twitter growth in Africa [Infographic]

New research suggests that Twitter’s growth in Africa is being driven primarily young people using mobile devices and that South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and…

How I would have stuffed up Twitter: Usability’s quest for simplicity

I’ve often wondered what it was like in the early days of creating Twitter. It must have been interesting times working out what the…

SOPA is dead, Twitter cheers

The internet rejoiced as news of Stop Online Piracy Act’s (SOPA) death spread like wild fire. The controversial bill has been the talk of…

Wimpy announces free breakfast on Twitter [Update]

Wimpy is a great South African brand that has moved with the times, kept up to date, and kept up with consumers. Known especially…

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…

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