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Social
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Someone’s Tweeting The Anene Booysen Trial, But Are You Following?
26 Feb 2013 by Dean Delaney / 3 Comments
Social media can change our lives. The last two weeks has been an eye opening experience to say the least. A South African hero and international role model for millions was arrested for the pre-meditated murder of his girlfriend, in his house, while she was locked in the toilet. His defence is that he thought [...]
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Facebook Scans Your Personal Chats For Criminal Activity
13 Jul 2012 by Albi P / 2 Comments
According to a recent report, social media sites, including Facebook, monitor users’ chats and scan for criminal activity. The invasive measures are intended to “ensure the safety of public” and authorities are notified if any suspicious activity is detected.
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A Quarter Of Your Friends Are Deliberately Posting Ugly Photos Of You On Facebook
04 Jul 2012 by Simon Gerber / No Comments
There is nothing worse than being tagged in a Facebook photo that you don’t want to be tagged in. You know, that time at the bar, after tequila number 7, hanging off your mate Jeff? Turns out it wasn’t just a mass upload.
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Facebook Wants Your Phone Number, “For Your Own Safety”
15 Jun 2012 by liam kruger / No Comments
Within the next few days, every single Facebook user will be met with a request for a verified phone number, which will apparently help users “stay in control” of their accounts. This is partially a response to security breaches at LinkedIn, Last.fm and eHarmony, but it’s also because Facebook wants to know more stuff about you.
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Sweden’s Twitter Experiment Gets A Little Anti-Semitic
13 Jun 2012 by liam kruger / 1 Comment
Sweden has been handing its Twitter account to a different citizen every week for the past seven months. Which has been great for the most part, with priests and lesbian truck drivers representing the country – except the latest @sweden handler has been catching some flack for trying to figure out “whats the fuzz with jews.”
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Twitter’s First Official TV Ads, #Underwhelming [VIDEO]
12 Jun 2012 by Albi P / No Comments
On Sunday Twitter aired its first ever TV commercials. The series of shorts are centered on America’s favourite past-time, Nascar racing, and push their new message: “See what he sees.” Click through to see the clips.
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Harvey Nichols Campaign Showing Models Wetting Themselves Sparks Outrage [PICS]
08 Jun 2012 by Steyn du Toit / 1 Comment
Harvey Nichols in the UK came under fire this week for their latest advertising campaign. Meant to promote their summer sale, the posters depict models that have apparently wet their pants with excitement. The slogan reads: “The Harvey Nichols Sale…Try To Contain Your Excitement.”
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Model Livetweets Married Actor’s Awkward Attempt At Seduction
07 Jun 2012 by liam kruger / 9 Comments
Ha! Model Melissa Stetten found herself getting hit on by vaguely-famous actor Brian Presley on a flight out of Los Angeles. Using this new thing called ‘the internet,’ she identified Presley as a married, outspoken Christian with a five-year-old kid. So she livetweeted his ridiculously awkward attempt at hooking up with her. Watch it unfold below.
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Pinterest Raising Millions In A Bid Fund International Expansion
17 May 2012 by Steyn du Toit / No Comments
Pinterest, the hottest social photo sharing website right now, looks set to receive a nice $50 million injection from Japanese giant, Raukten. Plus another reported $70 million coming in from other international investors! This means that Pinterest’s valuation is now in the range of between $1 billion and $1,5 billion. Impressively, they’ve only been around for two years.
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Facebook To Start Rolling Out Paid Features
14 May 2012 by liam kruger / 2 Comments
Facebook lately been experimenting with a small group of users by offering them the opportunity to promote their own status messages by paying for them. If the “Highlight” feature is more widely adopted, people will soon be able to pay to make sure their cutesy status updates are at the top of everyone’s news feed.
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Coming Soon: Live-Stream Of Planet Earth From ISS [VIDEO]
25 Apr 2012 by liam kruger / No Comments
A new startup called Urthecast is in the process of putting together HD cameras to be fitted to the International Space Station, so that people can watch real-time video of the planet from space. Which is at once really cool, and sort of pointless. The footage is looking impressive, though – take a look.
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Twitter Rescues Johannesburg Man From Hijacking Attempt
11 Apr 2012 by liam kruger / 2 Comments
An unnamed Johannesburg resident was robbed, kidnapped, and stuffed into the back of car on Sunday – but managed to send a text to his girlfriend, Lynn Peters who promptly posted a plea for help on Twitter. Frantic retweeting led to a Twitter-coordinated search by private security companies, who retrieved both the car and Peters’ boyfriend.
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Facebook To Buy Instagram For $1 Billion
10 Apr 2012 by Steyn du Toit / No Comments
There are two ways of taking out your competition: offer a similar, yet superior and/or cheaper product than your opponent. Or simply buy the entire rival business and start offering its service as your own. The latter happened yesterday when Mark Zuckerberg announcd that Facebook is about to buy Instagram for $1 billion.
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Social Media Payment System Tested In Belgium
03 Apr 2012 by Steyn du Toit / No Comments
A new once-click payment system focused on social media is currently being tested in Belgium. Paycento enables internet users to pay to read a single article or download a piece of music without having to fill out forms or enter their credit card details on the website. More details inside.
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Everyone Panic, There’s Officially An Unfollow Bug On Twitter!
29 Mar 2012 by Albi P / 2 Comments
Cue mass hysteria, Twitter has officially confirmed what many have suspected for some time, there’s a bug that causes twitter users to randomly unfollow people. It’s doubtful whether society will be able to function normally without their precious social media and in all likelihood this is the first sign of the impending apocalypse.
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Deadmau5 Calls Madonna A “Fucking Idiot” For Talking About Drugs
27 Mar 2012 by liam kruger / No Comments
Toronto’s Deadmau5 has been blasting Madonna on his Facebook page for asking folks at the Miami Ultra Music Festival if they’ve seen “molly,” which is young-person speak for MDMA. Deadmau5 moved from slating Madonna’s embarrassing use of drug slang to a spiel about equating electro with drug use – with a couple of tasteful expletives thrown in.
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Twitter BlackOut Protest Results In Mass Tweeting
30 Jan 2012 by liam kruger / No Comments
Man, look, I know the successive restriction of online liberties is something we should be fighting tooth and nail, but I can’t be the only one who heard about last Saturday’s ‘Twitter Blackout,’ in protest of Twitter’s new censorship policy, and failed to care.
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Twitter Can Now Censor Tweets By Country
27 Jan 2012 by Albi P / No Comments
Over the past few years social media has transformed the proliferation of information, particularly mainstream news. It’s now almost more likely that you’ll first learn about breaking news on your Facebook feed or Twitter account than from a legitimate news source. That’s all about to change.
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Mbeki Questions Twitter’s Social Usefulness, Twitter Flips Out A Little
17 Jan 2012 by liam kruger / 1 Comment
Following his opening address for the International Knowledge Conference at the University of Stellenbosch Business School, former president, Thabo Mbeki voiced some concerns about Twitter as “a great conveyor of reliable knowledge,” pointing to Gaddafi’s overthrow as a consequence of “false knowledge,” rather than the social media. Mbeki immediately started trending on Twitter.
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How Much Facebook Is Worth And Other Interesting Facts [INFOGRAPHIC]
13 Jan 2012 by Steyn du Toit / No Comments
This year Facebook will go public and start to sell shares on the stock exchange. Thanks to all of us, the social network is now worth $100 billion – more than giants such as Google, Disney, Amazon, and McDonald’s. But who is going to pocket all this money? Check out this infographic, detailing which Facebook friends will be getting pieces of the pie, as well as some other interesting facts:
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2011, As Recorded By Twitter
03 Jan 2012 by silverstreak / No Comments
2011 may be remembered as the year that news and social media tied the knot. Check out a great visual recap of the 2011, as seen on Twitter, after the jump.
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Social Networking Makes Up 20% Of Everything That Happens Online
23 Dec 2011 by liam kruger / No Comments
An annual report from comScore on what happens online has shown that 1 in every 5 minutes of time online this year was spent on social networking sites – as compared to the 6% of internet time that went to social networking in 2007. By all accounts that sort of growth is expected to continue, and speed up, in 2012.
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Facebook Memology 2011: The Things People Talked About The Most This Year
07 Dec 2011 by liam kruger / No Comments
Facebook yesterday released a big ol’ lump of data about the most shared content of 2011, both globally and for specific countries. Osama Bin Laden’s death was far and away the most popular status update topic, followed distantly by the Super Bowl results and and the Casey Anthony trial for second and third most popular, respectively.
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YouTube Launches Revamped Homepage Today
02 Dec 2011 by liam kruger / No Comments
YouTube is launching what they’re calling their biggest redesign in history today – and, granted, every time a website changes they tend to say that, but the differences here are pretty striking, with sweeping changes to the homepage and channel pages, strongly emphasising social media integration.
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