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What has Donald Trump tweeted about most in his first 100 days?

Even though Donald Trump is now president of a global superpower, he still has plenty of time to throw a tweet or two out…

Twitter now boasts 328m users, bests investor estimates

Although Twitter is an integral member of social media’s biggest hitters culturally, it’s lacking an impact financially. Still, the company enjoyed a better than…

#SAAStrike: 32 flights grounded as SAA trends once again

If you’re travelling to or from South Africa today on a South African Airways (SAA) flight, you’re one of the lucky few it seems….

[Update] Cape Town’s Twitter and Insta users celebrate the stormy weather

Update #2: 1.40pm: Because Cape Town is, well, Cape Town, #rain is now among the top trending hashtags in the city and the country…

Bonang faults SAA’s food, airline hits back with sassy tweet

Bonang Matheba is trending on Twitter once again today, and that’s largely thanks to SAA. The airline, in a month that has seen viral…

South Africa wishes Jacob Zuma a happy birthday with #WhyIHateZuma

Oh South Africa. It’s your President’s birthday today and this is how you wish him? #WhyIHateZuma has been on our watchlist for much of…

Zapiro’s controversial South Africa ‘rape’ cartoon debated on Twitter

Cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, better known professionally as Zapiro, has long been known for his unadulterated take on South African current affairs. But social media…

Twitter adds two-step verification to beef up security

Twitter finally announced the rollout of a two-step verification security feature. We have seen this coming for a long time now. The feature allows you…

Did Twitter play a hand in the Pope’s new account?

The Pope joining Twitter was pretty big news, although it did have an air of inevitability about it. Getting one of the world’s preeminent…

Twitter accidentally sends out mass password reset email

Your Twitter account might have been hacked today, although it probably wasn’t. Confused? So were a number of Twitter users around the world after…

US Presidential debate set new tweet record

The US Presidential debate on Wednesday set a new record for the most tweeted political event in history, according to Twitter’s government and political…

Indian govt could take on Twitter over failure to filter inflammatory tweets

Oh look. Twitter’s in hot water in India. Again. This time the Indian government is going after the social network because it has failed…

Followergate: gaming the system to boost follower count

Here we go again. Another storm has been brewing on the South African social media scene. This time, big digital agencies are accused of…

What can we learn from South Africa’s most influential tweeters?

So far in our series on the South African Twittersphere, we explored what lessons we can learn from conversations happening around two key political…

What lessons can we learn from mapping the SA Twittersphere?

In the last post of this series we looked at what the most popular hashtags in conversations around two of the most powerful tweeters…

Twitter: still no plans for IPO

You know when a tune gets so ingrained in your head that you recognise it instantly, even if you haven’t heard it in years?…

Ever wanted to get ‘tweeps’ in the dictionary? Now’s your chance

Depending what your feelings on language are, this story will either make you celebrate the evolving nature of English or weep into your coffee….

Tweet your support for student race team, power a Scalextric replica car

This is cool. It’s a Scalextric model of British racing circuit Silverstone and you can move cars along it using just the power of…

New iOS, Android versions of Twitter get expanded tweets

If you’re rocking an iPhone or a smartphone running Android, you might notice something a little different about Twitter after your next update. The…

How to make your journalistic Twitter network rock: A case study

Twitter is as essential a tool for journalism these days as a pen and notepad once were. One tweet can be can be as…

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