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Weekly Round Up #47: Rickman, Bowie, Tesla factory, The Star’s awks moment, regulating OTTs

Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days. This week on BurnCast, Senior…

The Star newspaper falls for a fictional brutal death story told on Twitter

On 8 January 2016, a Twitter user by the name of January 21st (@JustKhuthi) began tweeting a 70-tweet long story about a gruesome killing…

Weekly Round Up #46: Racism on social media, Netflix in Africa, CES and Twitter’s 10K characters

Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days. This week on BurnCast, in…

#ZumaMustFall: South Africans voice concern, frustration after Nene axing

Twitter is filled with tweets voicing people’s concern and frustration over South Africa’s future. This comes after the surprise announcement by President Jacob Zuma…

#UFOSA sighting, crash site is an elaborate marketing campaign by FutureLife, Clover

Twitter was in a state of confusion over the past weekend in South Africa, when people started reporting UFO sightings around the country. Images…

Weekly Round Up #43: Paris attacks, AfricaCom, YouTube Offline, Is Cape Town the best startup hub?

Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days. This week on BurnCast, Stuart…

Multiple users report mass Twitter outage [update]

Update: Twitter connectivity has been restored for us at least in South Africa, including Twitter.com and Tweetdeck. If you’re still experiencing issues, drop us…

Social networking: A fun cocktail party not a psychologist’s couch

Projecting a brave and blissful face to the world when your wife has left you and you’ve been retrenched is nothing new. People have…

Rebecca Black is laughing all the way to the bank

Rebecca Black, the 13-year old singer who has been widely panned for singing “the worst song ever”, is laughing all the way to the…

Some may get around NYTimes.com’s new paywall

It seems that some people will manage to find ways around NYTimes.com’s new paywall, this according to the publisher. However, the bracket will mostly…

Hoaxes and revolutions: Twitter’s fifth anniversary

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the very first Twitter update by Jack Dorsey (@Jack), co-founder of the mircologging site. On the 21st of…

Bubbling in the cauldron: Is Twitter a sign?

“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble,” chanted the witches of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, cooking up trouble. Similarly, are the VCs of…

Twitter use in Indonesia on the rise

Indonesia is now the source of 15 percent of the world’s Tweets, coming in third place globally behind the US and Brazil, according to…

Social computing [Infographic]

Visual frameworks which make sense of the variety of activity in social computing, can help marketers think more strategically about which tools to use….

Schabir Shaik trending worldwide on Twitter after re-arrest

News of the re-arrest of convicted fraudster and former businessman Schabir Shaik has spread like wildfire across popular microblogging social network Twitter with “Schabir…

Drowning out internet noise through human filters

You may have a friend or two who you can always trust to tell you, with impeccable taste, which new films, albums, gadgets or…

Social media sites rally to Japan’s aid

Friday’s earthquake off the coast of Japan and the resulting tsunami has proven, yet again, how the internet and social media tools offer an…

Twitter prays for Japan

Japan’s tweet-o-meter is at critical level with 1 200 tweets per minute. Now trending on Twitter, the 8.9-magnitude earthquake that hit northern Japan on…

Cameroon bans Twitter in an effort to thwart Egypt-like uprising

In a bid to insulate Cameroon against popular uprisings similar to those that have toppled regimes in Tunisia and Egypt in recent months, the…

Twitter making its way back to Africa

More than two and a half years ago Twitter shut down all operations in Africa. Back then, in August of 2008, it really didn’t…

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