Facebook adds a new feature so that advertisers can identify what device viewers used to spot their ad.
Pop star Miley Cyrus goes with more shock value attempts on social media, now uploading an image of herself urinating on a tree.
Tony Abbott has denounced a “hideous” and “barbaric” photograph of Australian terrorist Khaled Sharrouf’s son holding the severed head of a slain Syrian soldier.
If Neknominations weren’t stupid and pointless enough, the latest social media craze requires people to pour cold water over another person, and the senseless game has already claimed its first victim.
South Africans will be some of the first to try out Instagram’s new “one-tap” messaging app, Bolt, before it’s released to the rest of the world.
Trying to appease English football fans can be like attempting to lick your elbow, but Steven Gerrard’s retirement from international football has finally given the fans something to smile about.
A teen who took a happy Auschwitz selfie say it was taken out of context and wants everyone to leave her alone.
A club-goer snapped a shocking scene of two couples having sex on the sidewalk. There parents would be so proud…
Entourage star Adrian Grenier posted a picture of reality-star Kim Kardashian to Instagram, but it has a lot more depth to it than you may think.
A Nebraska teen has managed to take a surprise snap with Paul McCartney and Warren Buffett, chilling on a bench, being normal. And it’s awesome.
What do the headlines on social media, news websites and internet forums tell us about publishers and their “clicktricks”.
Snowden‘s admirable, yet criticised intentions shot the systems-analyst to worldwide infamy; now there’s a fake Tinder account of him.
Teen does the unthinkable and accidentally sends a naked picture of herself to her dad. There’s no coming back from that, ever!
The interweb community has already delivered a bunch of memes after Brazil’s shocking 7-1 loss to Germany in last night’s World Cup semi-final. Here are some of the best.
Robin Thicke’s #AskThicke social media campaign backfired, leaving him open the some ridiculing from the Twitterverse.
Prepare to cringe at the ridiculous level of materialism flaunted by a teen who has launched a new SnapChat account to show off his wealth.
Facebook suffers a global outage that sends the social media stratosphere into hysterics, as people from South Africa, France, Belgium and Germany join in to deliver some Facebook hate.
How do you fight a war? With leg-gun selfies, of course! Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has started a new trend to help raise awareness for crimes of terror in his home country.
An Oregon couple’s wedding gets interrupted by a freak-fire, but that didn’t stop them, and they ended up capturing some of the best wedding photos ever.
Struggling to handle the different social media demands? Here is the ultimate cheat-sheet to become a guru at Facebook, Twitter and all the other big players in the social sphere.
WeChat has seen significant growth in the past 12 months, going up against the likes of Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger, putting the Chinese-based instant messenger on the map.
South Africa’s first Afrikaans social network launches, and it’s a weird mash-up of Facebook’s news features and Twitter’s posting options.
Women raise their voices following the misogynistic manifesto by Elliot Rodger.
Instagram, home of sunset shots, hashtags and puddlegrams, has a dark underbelly creating waves through the local Instagram community. The centre of all the fuss is a man, a bot, his many accounts and all the tens of thousands of followers his bot has fetched.
Cartoon creator may have just changed the way you look at Twitter…
Twice now I’ve gone to Gardens Centre with a very specific list of things I need – a trip I would previously have gone to the V&A Waterfront for. Now I realise, what’s the point?
A local clothing and apparel company called Dranged (do you think they know they spelled that wrong?) leveraged the awesome power of social media last week to promote their brand. Except that they used a convicted hate crime murderer, and they seemed pretty chuffed about it.
Congrats! You’re worth roughly R22 to Facebook! This chart, created by Statista, breaks down the evolution of the average revenue per Facebook user over the past year.
General elections are coming up, and people are going to be picking fights with you on social media, left, right, centre, and fundamentalist. This is how you wage a Twar, and win it.
Before we begin, you should know that this whole thing is a marketing campaign for a video game. But that doesn’t mean that the data isn’t real, or that this isn’t scary as hell. The video above is a guy exploring a new website that mines the web for data that you didn’t know was publicly available. It will make you skrik.