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Twitter plans to effectively ban fake media

Jenna Delport -
Twitter announced this week that it is making a move on deceptive photos and videos being posted to the platform. In an official statement from the company, writers Yoel Roth and Ashita Achuthan say that users will no longer...
East Africa

Twitter unveils group messaging and mobile video experience

Staff Writer -
Social networking giant Twitter has unveiled the roll-out of two new services: group messaging and a new mobile video experience. According to Twitter, the following features will be available in Africa as well as globally once the roll-out commences. Converse...
Online & Social

Ericsson fires employee over racist tweet

Staff Writer -
Telecommunications company Ericsson South Africa has dismissed an employee over a racists tweet. Ericsson employee Vivienne Catherine Basson vented her anger on Twitter today, after being allegedly involved in a car accident with a taxi driver. In the rage-filled tweet...
Online & Social

This is how Africa tweets

Staff Writer -
Twitter activity in Africa during the last quarter of 2013 peaked on the day of Nelson Mandela's death, according to How Africa Tweets, a new study analysing Twitter activity on the continent. In a follow up to its 2012 study,...
Features

It is time for social media strategies to grow up

Staff Writer -
Many South African marketers look on social media as an unruly child, indulged as the youngest addition to the family of tools that they use for marketing and communications. After all, it started out life as an informal experiment in...
Features

Oscar Pistorius – The tweet that shook the world

Staff Writer -
In the early hours of 14 February 2013, South Africans were rudely awakened by the buzz of non-stop online chatter.  It was around the same time when most people were making their way to work, or pouring their first cup of coffee. The...
Online & Social

Women tweet more during World Economic Forum

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New data from KPMG International shows that women delegates are playing an increasingly prominent role in the public discussion from the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.   While about 17% of WEF delegates in Davos are women,...
Top Stories

Twitter turns six today

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Popular social network Twitter turns six years old today. On 21 March 2006, company executive chairman and product lead Jack Dorsey sent out his first tweet (see below). The quality of tweets going out has improved since then. His tweet was...
Top Stories

Twitter to block tweets

Staff Writer -
Micro blogging service and social media website Twitter revealed yesterday that they now have the ability to block certain Tweets from users across the world. While some Tweets may be perfectly legal in some countries, Twitter will begin to...
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