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Taking to the tweets: South Africa’s relationship with protests and Twitter

Just recently EFF leader Julius Malema criticised South Africa’s Twitter activists for thinking the platform was enough to effect change. But South Africans are…

North West floods in pictures: Facebook, Twitter captures sodden destruction

Well South Africa, Cyclone Dineo wasn’t the weather system we should’ve been worried about. Although the tropical cyclone passed well north of Gauteng and…

Budget Speech 2017: South Africa protests on the streets & Twitter

Today, South Africa’s minister of finance Pravin Gordhan will deliver his annual Budget Speech to the nation. Although proceedings officially get underway at 2pm…

Rain in Johannesburg, drought in Cape Town: SA’s weather according to social media

As boring as it might seem, the weather has been a massive talking point for South Africans in 2017. And no, it’s not because…

#AskThePublicProtector: South Africans troll Busisiwe Mkhwebane on Twitter

The South African government should know by now: Twitter does not take anything seriously. So when it created #AskThePublicProtector, it should have come as no…

#DeleteUber 2.0: ex-Uber engineer details sexual harassment

Less than a month after users boycotted Uber due to CEO Travis Kalanick’s ties to US President Donald Trump, a former employee has sparked new outrage…

Totally fake: the false Cyclone Dineo news you should know about

Yes, Cyclone Dineo is an actual storm. Yes, it also made landfall in Mozambique and is tracking in a westerly direction over northern South…

Muamba collapse sends shockwaves through Twitter [Update]

The sudden collapse of Bolton Wanderers player Fabrice Muamba in this evening’s FA Cup tie against Tottenham Hotspur has sent shockwaves across Twitter. Muamba…

Tweet your way to cheaper pizza

Everyone loves a good pizza — but what people love more is a discount. Pizza outlet Col’Cacchio has just launched its “Slice the Price”…

#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…

How influential is your company on social? Brandometer thinks it knows

How do you know how well your brand’s doing on social media? Awards are one way, but they tend to be chosen by industry…

Pinterest drives more traffic than Twitter

Want to drive traffic to your site? Forget Twitter (Okay maybe don’t forget it entirely) and get pinning. That’s right, Pinterest — a two-year…

10 Twitter pics from the iPad launch

So it was the iPad 3 / iPad HD / “the new iPad” launch yesterday… what, you weren’t in San Francisco? Well, the 755 seats…

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….

Twitter now available in four right-to-left languages

Twitter is now available in four new languages: Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu. These are the first right-to-left languages to be made available on…

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…

Twitter brings promoted tweets to mobile

It seems that you can’t get away from advertising on Twitter — even if you’re using its mobile app. Twitter announced yesterday that their…

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