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The 7 Best Websites to Buy Twitter Followers (Real & Active)

The Twitter social network has more than 390 million active users and is one of the most used social networks by people of all ages. This one works as a microblogging platform since 2006 and its algorithm works in...

Twitter Just Made $700-Million in Cash After Selling This Company

Twitter on Wednesday announced that it was selling its mobile advertising network MoPub to game developer and ad-tech company AppLovin for $1.05-billion in cash. According to Reuters, the social media juggernaut bought MoPub in September 2013 for about $350-million. Meaning...

As Facebook Floundered, its Rivals Flourished

On Monday, US-based social media monolith Facebook underwent its worst outage in recent years after its group of platforms all went down for about 6 hours - Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were all unusable across devices and ISPs around...

Social Media Users in Africa React to WhatsApp & Facebook Outages

Last evening, millions of people across Africa went to their usual social media platforms only to have their apps load endlessly. Was it the signal? Did they steal the tower cables? No -- Facebook and its platforms, including some...

Twitter is Planning to Let Users Hide Old, Embarrassing Tweets

Twitter is planning the addition of new privacy features on its platforms, one of which will reportedly be the inclusion of an option that will allow the archiving of old tweets so that they are only visible to other...

Twitter Launches Patreon-Like ‘Super Followers’ Feature for iOS

Twitter has begun its roll-out of Super Followers, a new feature on the social network that lets users who have over 10,000 followers charge other users for subscriber-only content - a feature similar to other platforms like Patreon, and...

Nigeria Now Expects to Lift Twitter Ban by End of Year

Last week, IT News Africa reported that Nigerian authorities were expecting to lift the country's ban of social network Twitter "in the next few days or weeks", according to Nigeria's Information Minister, Lai Mohammed. The Minister said that the Federal...

Twitter is Testing a New E-Commerce Feature: Shop Module

Social media platform Twitter has begun testing its new Shop Module e-commerce feature, beginning on Wednesday. The new feature is set to be Twitter's version of other e-commerce novelties offered by social networks like Facebook's Marketplace and Instagram's Checkout. With...

Twitter is Testing Tweet Upvote & Downvote Buttons

Ubiquitous social media network Twitter is currently testing Reddit-like upvote and downvote buttons in efforts to highlight replies in long tweet threads that are considered most interesting by users. https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1417920469265788931 Twitter says it will begin what it's calling a "small research...

Twitter is Shutting Down its Fleets Feature Surprising No One

Ubiquitous social media platform Twitter is removing its Fleets feature just eight months after its worldwide launch due to low user engagement and interest. https://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1415362679095635970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1415362679095635970%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theverge.com%2F2021%2F7%2F14%2F22577166%2Ftwitter-fleets-shuts-down-stories-clone From 3 August, users on the services will instead see active Spaces - Twitter's live audio...
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Fortifying Africa’s Financial Future: BFSI Security Summit Hits Johannesburg in 2025

Banks and insurance companies across Africa face an unprecedented wave of cyberattacks, with ransomware, data breaches, and phishing threatening...
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