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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…

News24 gets sweary, apologises for ‘erroneous’ tweet about plane crash

So this just happened. The Twitter account of South Africa’s largest online news provider News24 just tweeted “Jesus Christ Holy Fuck,” in reference to…

Taylor Swift shakes off hackers on her Twitter and Instagram account

Taylor Swift’s Twitter and Instagram accounts were broken into yesterday. The songster’s Twitter account was the first to go, with the hacker tweeting out…

Twitter rolls out new features, including group direct messages and mobile video experience

Twitter today announced that it would be rolling out a couple of interesting new features . The new features rolled out by Twitter are…

5 social media ways to do Valentine’s

Ahh, it’s love day. The traditional way of saying I love you is highly overrated. Roses are overdone, chocolates don’t actually seem special anymore….

Is Gawker Media’s hydra-like content network ‘death of the blog’??

Gawker Media launched a redesigned version of its hydra-like content network this week, bringing with it talk of the “death of the blog”. Its…

Social networks all abuzz as Mubarak steps down

After eighteen days of protests and pleas on various social media platforms, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak finally resigned. People all around the world are…

State of the Nation address and its ‘drinking game’ trend heavily on Twitter

The State of the Nation address delivered by President Jacob Zuma on Thursday evening, and the drinking game that accompanied it, was Twitter’s number…

Mega-payday for Facebook employees

Facebook might have plans to allow its employees sell up to US$1-billion in shares at a price that would value the social networking site…

US$10 billion for Twitter is not out of the question

Twitter, the micro-blogging sensation expected to rake in US$150-million in advertising revenue this year, is looking at an acquisition by Google and Facebook as…

Conflicting ideas on the future of social networking

Mark Suster made some interesting predictions on the future of social networking at the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum, not all of which I agree with….

Iconic shoe designer Kenneth Cole puts his foot in it on Twitter

The ability to fire off a tweet in a matter of seconds without really thinking about the consequences is as much a blessing as…

Egypt crisis: Twitter’s role [Infographic]

Egypt is on the world’s stage. The on-going political and civil unrest that peaked on January 25th when Twitter was blocked has been the…

Internet giants speak out against Egyptian blockade of web

As Egypt is rocked by continuing protests against President Hosni Mubarak, Google, Facebook and Twitter, breaking with the usual practice of corporate silence, are…

World Tweets messages of love and support for Madiba

The news of the hospitalisation of living-legend Nelson Mandela has sent shock-waves through the world with users on major social networks posting their well-wishes…

FanFiction 2.0: 10 TV and movie characters to follow on Twitter

When you watch a movie or television show and find yourself lost in the witty dialogue that the characters deliver, it’s easy to become…

Facebook and Twitter for X-Box LIVE comes to SA

Social media integration is all the rage. Only a few months ago Microsoft launched Xbox LIVE, an online multiplayer gaming network, in South Africa…

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