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WeCam Will Let You Make Video Calls To Your Twitter Followers
28 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Is dividing your attention between all your different social media accounts wearing your psyche thin? WeCam allows you to connect to all your Twitter, Facebook and Google+ friends using one app, and you can also talk to them face-to-face.
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You Can Do A Whole Bunch Of New Things On Twitter – Check It Out
27 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Twitter’s latest update improves its photo sharing capabilities and tagging. These tweaks are an effort to improve user experience, but it seems like Twitter is becoming more like Facebook.
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Tech Report: Will Mxit Succeed In India? [VIDEO]
27 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
No doubt you’ll know by now that South African messaging platform, Mxit has expanded operations to India, where it hopes to tap in to a feature phone market of half a billion users. But with WhatsApp and WeChat angling aggressively for the same slice of pie, how much hope does our homegrown company have? Check it out.
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#PutIt: The Barry Roux Parody Twitter Handle Is Great
14 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
No doubt you’ll have noticed by now that Oscar Pistorius’ defence council, Advocate Barry Roux enjoys putting it to people. He puts it to them, he gets back to putting it to them, and then he puts it on their studio. He’s also putting it all over Twitter.
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The UberFacts Twitter Handle Is Uber Wrong
13 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
UberFacts reaches millions of people with its factoids everyday. But what most of its 6.3 million Twitter followers don’t know is that, unfortunately, many of these “facts” are half-truths, completely wrong or misleading.
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Why Is Your Man Saying Things On Social Media, But Not To You?
25 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Social media beware, as the saying goes, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Women out there are being given the cold shoulder by the men in their relationships according to recent studies. Men are more likely to share their thoughts to hundreds or thousands of friends and followers, than to the person sitting next to them. Social media’s intimacy with their loved ones has left some women green with jealousy.
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Idiot Arrested For Posting Footage Of Assaults To Instagram [VIDEOS]
21 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’re going to be a complete a-hole and threaten people with a fake gun as you drive by, it’s probably best not to post those hijinks to any kind of social media. Twenty-one-year-old Daron Stinson is facing a host of felonies after he “pretended” to rob and shoot at frightened pedestrians with a pellet […]
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People Don’t Really Read The Articles They Tweet
17 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Shame on you. Twitter isn’t a place filled with readers according to a study. If you got here from a link on Twitter, you are probably not even reading this.
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The Internet Saved Chelsea, The Depressed Dog, From Certain Death [PICTURE]
12 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So depressed she wouldn’t even face possible owners visiting the shelter she was kept at in San Bernardino, California, Chelsea’s days were numbered. Due to be put down on Thursday, few were interested in adopting her. But leave it to the Internet to save the day.
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Facebook Just Posted Its Strongest Revenue Growth In 2 Years
30 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s common knowledge that Facebook just isn’t signing up as many users as it once was. The plateau makes sense, given the sheer size of the user base, which remains large despite a flurry of reports indicating a teenage user exodus. Those studies didn’t stop Facebook from declaring 63% increase in revenue and an eightfold increase in profit for the fourth quarter yesterday.
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The White EFF Guy Is Currently Trolling The Agang Facebook Page [PICS]
28 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Wiekus Andre Kotze – the man who rose to minor fame recently for being a white member of the Economic Freedom Fighters – is trolling Agang’s Facebook page. Kotze, an ex-member of Agang has written on the party’s Facebook wall, inviting disgruntled members to join the EFF.
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Use This Calculator To Work Out How Much Time You Have Wasted On Facebook
28 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Next week Facebook will reach double digits as it turns 10 years old. In its decade of existence, the social network has attracted a hefty 1,1 billion users , and all their pokes, wall posts, baby photos and status updates add up to a whole lot of time. The geniuses over at TIME have created a nifty […]
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Twitter Bug Lets You Gain Unlimited Followers Just By Clicking
27 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Twitter has always been a numbers game, with your credibility and importance being measured almost entirely by the number of followers you have. If you need to boost your ego a little bit, a bug has been uncovered that allows you to gain an essentially infinite number of followers just by clicking.
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Facebook In Bitch-Fight With Princeton University
24 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook and Princeton University are embroiled in what will inevitably be the nerdiest standoff in history. A few Princeton epidemiologists got together, did some research, and published a paper on a very dubious premise: that if you look at Facebook as an infectious disease, then 80% of its hardcore users may well have “recovered” and abandoned the service by 2018.
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STUDY: Facebook Is About To Lose 80% Of Its Users
22 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Hot on the heels of this insightful video, it seems like media and citizens alike are escaping their Facebook induced hibernations and bailing.
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Highlights From Bill Murray’s AMA Session On Reddit
20 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Bill Murray fans collectively wet themselves this weekend when the man himself appeared on an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit.
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White EFF Supporter Gets Slammed By Afrikaans Community For ‘Betraying White Skin’
20 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
We posted a story about Wiekus Kotze not too long ago, when we first caught wind that he could be the first white member of Julius Malema’s EFF. Well, it seems that poor Wiekus has been put to the social media sword by the furious trolls within the Afrikaner community, who see his allegiance with Malema as “a betrayal of his white skin.”
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Facebook Is Losing Teens At “Terrifyingly High Rates”
16 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The hordes of teens that once made Facebook the company that it is today are now leaving in a mass exodus of millions. A recent report has revealed that the number of teens on Facebook is down 25% from 2011.
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The Feud Between Woody Allen And Mia Farrow (And Her Son) Is Getting Messy
14 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Despite winning a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes this year, not all is well with the Woody household.
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Reddit’s Burgeoning Gun Market Is Very Big Business
13 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Reddit is many people’s platform of choice for funny pictures, interesting facts, and apparently buying assault rifles. An investigation has revealed that at least 159 sales have been made on the little known GunsForSale subreddit since June last year. Nearly 100 of these guns are AR-15 assault rifles, but since many of the gun orders could’ve taken place over private messages, the exact number of guns sold could be much higher.
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Twitter Co-Founder’s New Company Is Called ‘Jelly’ – This Is What It Does
09 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone just can’t get enough of the big time – so he’s made another app called ‘Jelly’, and it hasn’t got anything to do with dessert.
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Please Enjoy This Twitter War Between Tito Mboweni And Zwelinzima Vavi
09 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
What happens when a former reserve bank governor and a suspended trade union boss get chatting on Twitter? Flames.
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Snapchat’s CEO Has Made Himself Look Like A Twat
07 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Snapchat CEO, Evan Speigel, isn’t doing himself any favours of late. He still hasn’t apologised for the security breach that affected 4,6 million Snapchat users, and now he’s involved in a row with Forbes.
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‘Miserable Men’ – An Instagram Account That Captures The Sad Side Of Shopping
07 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s a worldwide phenomenon that’s plagued men for as long as trade has existed: having to wait around while women shop. A brilliant new Instagram account, miserable men, captures this sad side of shopping.
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This Is The First Meme Of 2014
06 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you didn’t enjoy the meteoric rise of the selfie last year, you’re in for something of a rough ride in 2014. The very first meme of 2014 is the ‘Selfie Olympics’ or ‘extreme selfie’, and it comes with a very specific set of rules and regulations.
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Chef Gets Fired, Still Has Access To Restaurant Twitter Account, Goes Rogue
17 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
No one needs to be reminded about the transformative power of Twitter. It can incite protests, end regimes and mobilise the masses – but it’s also just as useful if you want to get back at the company that just fired you.
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Mashable Gives 5 Reasons Why People Are Leaving Facebook
17 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It always seemed like only a matter of time before Facebook users started questioning how much time they were expending online, and now the questions have started coming thick and fast from the group of people Facebook relies on most – the millinials.
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Fortune Magazine’s 5 Predictions For Social Media 2014
13 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’re not eating, sleeping and breathing social media, it’s time to hop on board. Fortune Magazine’s predictions for social media in 2014 show that social media is transforming the way fundamental ways in which businesses function – which makes this set of predictions especially useful.
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Selfies Are Turning Us Into A Nasty Bunch Of Narcissists [INFOGRAPHIC]
11 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yes, of course they are. But now we have cold, hard evidence to prove it. This infographic outlines some of the basic traits of narcissism, before revealing some worrying correlations between heavy social media use and narcissism.
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Couchsurfing.com Is Being Used For Easy Hookups
09 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s the ultimate three-for-one experience: travel the world, stay for free and hook-up. Couchsurfing.com is available in 100 000 cities across the world and allows wonderers to stay for free on the couches of willing hosts.
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