We’ve found a real-life wizard! Well…wizardry is the only way we can explain this magical video that showed up on Vine a couple of days ago. This wizard goes by the name “JehReh” and is able to make his son appear and disappear into thin air – Check out the video and see for yourself! […]
Derek Medina shot and killed his wife Jennifer Alfonso, apparently because Alfonso had told her husband she was leaving him. The crazy part? Medina posted a Facebook statement confessing to the murder, as well as posting a picture of his dead wife.
Introducing ‘MINI Art Beat’ as part of MINI’s ‘Not Normal’ campaign. With over 40,000 LED lights attached to the body of the car, the Countryman has become the car that plays videos.
This Japanese photographer has found a cure for male singletons out there. Who needs a girlfriend when you have your right hand, enjoy Keisuke Jinushi’s selfies.
Well, this is awkward. Desmond Tutu officially joined Twitter today under the handle, @TutuLegacy, but the social media service suspended the account after a few short hours for “aggressive following”, despite the handle having only followed 30 other accounts.
Aa new study by Domo and CEO.com determining Fortune 500 CEO’s presence on social media platforms; LinkeIn, Google+, Twitter and Facebook has released these results.
“They have more money than you and this is what they do.” So obviously there’s a lion on the roof of a Ferrari over there. The Rich Kids Of Instagram tumblog rose to prominence around 18 months ago, and every day since, they have dutifully published real-life Instagrams of young people spending/enjoying money that they did not earn.
There is nothing worse than feeling like the third wheel, especially when your friend’s mobile gets more attention than you. A new term has been coined for the antisocial behaviour, “phubbing” . Phubbing is the act of “subbing others in a social setting by checking your phone”.
With the Secret.li app you can take the photo, apply a filter and generate an unrecognizable picture when uploaded on Facebook. Only those who you have chosen are able to view the normal image.
Remember the time Facebook announced it would be launching video ads? Remember how they said their video ads will revolutionise online advertising? Here’s their big plan.
Barack Obama has the most Twitter followers of any president in the world. But he also happens to be one of the least connected global leaders on Twitter. How is this possible? It’s all about engagement, replies, and conversation. Twiplomacy have knocked together a fascinating cross section of global leaders and their influence on Twitter, below.
Facebook wants to take on television advertising, hard. The social networking platform wants to sell advertising space on the site in the form of a “TV-style commercial”. Advertising in this format could set you back as much as R25 million a day for a 15 second spot.
Don’t lie, we’ve all wondered what it would be like to be a fly on the wall inside the White House. Pete Souza is giving us the in we’ve been looking for. The official White House photographer has launched an Instagram account dedicated to the “behind-the-scenes” action of the president of the United States. […]
If you’ve ever wanted to increase your browsing speed, then we’ve got just the thing for you. This infographic created by Quintly will get you social media fanatics cruising from one page to another in no time. The image titled Social Media Shortcuts has everything you need to make your posting time shorter by the […]
The country with the reputation for being isolated from the rest of the world and making women soldiers wear 4-inch heels while patrolling is finally dabbling with Instagram videos. It wasn’t too long ago that North Korea’s first Instagram pics were taken. Now, with their recently activated 3G mobile network, we have video footage of […]
We know some of you have thought about it, you know, getting a quick fix of Twitter followers. Judith Ohikuare at Inc. Magazine has come up with an infographic called The Fake-Follower Factory that gives us a chance to dabble in the underground world of Twitter. So if you have ever thought about “cheating the social system” and […]
Who knew that selling fake Twitter accounts could be such a lucrative business. Meet the man who made R1,2 million in just 10 months from selling fake Twitter accounts.
That awkward moment when your boss runs into compromising photos of you on the interwebs. If this is a worry in your life, as a result of raucous social activity, then this app could be the savior you’ve been waiting for. A new iOS app called Secret.li aims is to cut the lifespan of those […]
The Graph Search feature on Facebook was made available to the masses on 8 July 2013. The feature is a search tool that enables the user to search for information on the popular social networking site.
It is only natural to use social media on your phone at some point or another during the course of a day. But does using social media on your phone pose a risk to your device, and your life? From Facebook battery drain to smashing your car, this infographic details to pitfalls of mobile social media.
These are three Facebook friends you should either hide, tolerate or defriend. TIME writer Margaret Rock explains how to spot them and what you should do with them.
Justin Bieber has quite the following on photo-sharing network Instagram, but what about the hidden gems out there that have used it as a platform to showcase their talent and exactly what the app can do? If you’re on Instagram or in the photo industry and you haven’t heard of Craig Howes, now is the […]
Remember those bricks with the aerial we used to call cellphones? Did you ever think that they would become the things that ran our future? We can’t deny the fact that the smartphone has influenced our lives and society as a whole. Whether you are walking on the street, driving, or even watching a movie, […]
Shock! Heartthrob Biebs has become the first person to earn one million likes for an Instagram video post. The video, which you can see below, shows the pop sensation filming his personal video off the new Instagram function. He is shirtless, he is cackling like a five-year-old and since the upload on 20 June, over […]
And the moment you’ve all been waiting for is here. This is the “how to” guide to creating a hipster-esque Instagram video. Mashable has brought us step-by-step instructions to using the new Instagram 4.0 feature that is set to wipe out Vine and other annoying social media in the near future. Once you’ve installed and upgraded […]
WhoIsHostingThis.com has come up with an intriguing infographic called “Four Psychopathic Traits Of A Social Media User.” Click through to see what social media is doing to us.
TechCrunch, (the reliable source of anything you want to know on the Tech/Sci front) has announced that, according to a trusted source, Instagram will have a video feature come Thursday. Facebook is rumoured to reveal this new product that will enable Instagrammers to record and share videos across social networks whilst giving Vine a run […]
Israeli prankster and sitcom writer, Nimrod Kamer lives a parallel life in which he falsifies information on celebrity WikiPedia pages, and then offers to change the information back to the previous iteration, for cash.
An academic paper by three Facebook data scientists (that’s an actual job description) focussed on a photograph of a Norwegian couple who said they’d have sex if their pic got more than one million likes might have uncovered the mechanism that triggers the viral sharing of content on the web.
Some risky business is going on amoung the female Israeli recruits and it has nothing to do with battle. Click through to see the controversial video.