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Student Tweets From Inside School During Lone Star College Shooting
23 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This morning we reported on another school shooting that took place in the US.
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#Zamdela – The Timeline Of A Riot
22 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You’ve probably seen #Zamdela trending on your timeline today. The riots in the Sasolburg township of Zamdela have rocked South Africa, with the most compelling reportage coming from the ground via Twitter. Check out this collection of tweets, for a timeline of the riot. #Sasolburg There've been no protests in #Zamdela this morning. Unconfirmed […]
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Hey, Facebook Stalkers, You Better Take Note
18 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Most people would never admit to engaging in the odd bit of Facebook stalking, but truth be told, most people love nothing more than a little stalk every now and then. Here’s how you can take precautions to stay in the clear.
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Another Local Online Agency Is Selling Fake YouTube Views, Facebook Fans, And Twitter Followers
18 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 26 Comments
In an astounding conflict of interest, a local online marketing company that charges its corporate clients to promote their products and services online, has been revealed to be behind a local website that may sell fake Twitter followers, Facebook fans, and YouTube views. Depending on the method used, buying Twitter followers, Facebook fans or YouTube […]
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17 Things That Mark Zuckerberg “Likes” On Facebook
17 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
Facebook recently launched their new search tool, called Graph Search. While it isn’t widely available yet, once it has been implemented, it will search each Facebook user’s profile for their “likes.”
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Reddit Co-Founder Commits Suicide Following Federal Hacking Charges
14 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Reddit co-founder and RSS feed co-developer, Aaron Swartz, has died on Friday in his New York flat at age 26. According to his uncle and an attorney, the computer activist and programmer took his own life.
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How To Publish Your Event / Special On 2oceansvibe For Free
28 Dec 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
The 2oceansvibe calendar (right of your page) is actually just a MyBirdi calendar. MyBirdi let’s you Tweet your sale/event/special/gig without worrying about people missing that info. Because if you include @mybirdi in the tweet, then it gets saved on the chosen date in the MyBirdi calendar. Read on to see how.
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Instagram’s Top 10 Photos Of 2012 [GALLERY]
28 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Photo-sharing website Instagram has released a photo compilation of some of their top 10 biggest events of 2012. It was selected from all the images uploaded this year by their more than 100 million users.
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Facebook Privacy Settings FAIL – Photo Of Mark Zuckerberg’s Family Leaked [PIC]
27 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Randi Zuckerberg is the older sister of Facebook creator, Mark Zuckerberg. She is also the social network’s former marketing director. But on Christmas Day she got burned by Facebook’s privacy settings just like the rest of us.
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The Biggest Social Media Moments Of 2012 [INFOGRAPHIC]
24 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
2012 has been one crazy year for social media! Facebook went public, Pinterest was named Best New Startup, Facebook bought Instagram, and Psy’s “Gangnam Style” became the most viewed YouTube video in history with more than one billion views so far!
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Twitter Unlocks The Archives – Access Every Tweet You’ve Ever Sent
20 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Twitter has launched Twitter Archive, which allows you to download every single one of your tweets, ever. A post on the company blog announced the decision this morning. It’s no secret: You make Twitter what it is. And if you tweet, you may have found yourself wanting to go back in time and explore your […]
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The Top 10 Tweets Of 2012
10 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Twitter has arguably become one of the most influential social media services used by the modern journalist. But the modern journalist is not alone – the average citizen can break the news too, with ease.
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Facebook Law For Idiots [VIDEO]
28 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Fellow Internet users and 2oceansvibers. We are sure you are not at fault here, being the bastion of modern communication etiquette you are. You may, however, know someone who is at fault; we would love you to forward this on to them.
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McIntosh Polela Now Sorry For Jub Jub Vaseline Tweet
18 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Did you catch the article we penned about The Hawks’ spokesperson, McIntosh Polela, saying he hoped Jub Jub’s friends had given him Vaseline for prison yesterday? Well, Polela, who was initially unapologetic, has changed his mind about that.
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Twitter Has Officially Silenced Its First Account Ever
18 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In the first move of its kind, Twitter has officially banned the account of a German neo-Nazi group. The action came after a request from German police, who claimed the account holders were a “criminal organisation”.
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BOS Ice Tea’s BEV Wins Gold At The Smarties
05 Oct 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
BOS Ice Tea has won a gold award at the New York Smarties Awards 2012 with BEV – the Twitter activated vending robot.
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Facebook Celebrates One Billion Users With First TV Advert [VIDEO]
05 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It is official! Facebook is now used by one billion people every month. That’s one in every seven people in the world! To celebrate, Mark Zuckerberg has launched this TV advert. Check it out!
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Facebook Now Has More Than One Billion Users
04 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook announced today that it now has more than one billion users around the world. Although there might be a few made up accounts in that number.
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Facebook Gifts Encourage Users To Expose More Private Information
01 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook is about to start testing its new gifting platform that will allow it another go at a possible revenue stream, but there’s a small problem: exposing information like home addresses, birth dates and other aspects could pose security and privacy risks.
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MySpace’s Gorgeous Redesign, Too Little, Too Late?
25 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
It’s back! After its initial launch almost a decade ago, the grandaddy of social networks, MySpace, is set to make a comeback with a completely redesigned site and new interface which they’ve previewed in a brand new teaser video. The new site looks great and, as one would expect, is promising to be the next big thing, yet I foresee one slight problem: does anyone care?
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Barack Obama Shows His Support For International Talk Like A Pirate Day [PIC]
20 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Yesterday was International Talk Like A Pirate Day, a humble occasion that started ten years ago in a newspaper column. It spread to Facebook, and has gained monumental traction, with September 19 being celebrated worldwide. Across the planet yesterday grog was shared, peg-legs and eye-patches donned, and even the leader of the free world got in on the action.
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Rapper Tweets “YOLO”, Dies In Car Crash Minutes Later
13 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is why you don’t tempt fate. Or use stupid sayings. Or tweet whilst driving. Or tweet while driving drunk, while “going 120 drifting corners.” This is the fate that was suffered by a Canadian rapper and his friends recently, after deciding to have a little too much fun.
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Facebook Quadruples Voting Behaviour
13 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In another instance of sheep-like behavior, research shows that a banner message on Facebook showing users’ friends who voted drove a third of a million more voters to the poll booths in the 2010 US elections. It’s not simply people responding to a message, but rather seeing their friends had voted, that they then followed suit.
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Exclusive: Is Woolworths Whistleblower SA’s Biggest Online Fake?
06 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 200 Comments
UPDATE: The Facts: Woolworths >> Quirk >> 2oceansvibe You would have caught the latest allegations made online against Woolworths, with regard to their allegedly racist employment practices. Following an extensive investigation, 2oceansvibe can reveal that the blogger whistleblower has some integrity/challenging skeletons of his own. Again the issue of fabricated online clout rears its ugly […]
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Movie Producer’s Play-By-Play Tweets Of His Harrowing Flight Next To An Unruly, Unstable Ex-Marine
21 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
“‘Hey that’s my seat man,’ I said. A quick drawing ‘fuck you its mine now’ was the response as I sat down next to him mumbling ‘charming’.” That’s pretty much how movie producer Cassian Elwes’s cross-country flight started when he found an unruly ex-marine in his seat, and it was all uphill from there.
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Unbaby.Me App – Banish Those Facebook Baby Photos From Your News Feed For Good
17 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sick and tired of baby photos taking up your news feed on Facebook? There’s a solution for that: Unbaby.me will replace baby photos with whatever you’d prefer to see, like bacon for example.
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The Definitive Joburg Snow Wrap Up – Beautiful Video Montage [VIDEO]
17 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On August 7 this year, all nine provinces in South Africa experienced simultaneous snowfall for the very first time. Joburg’s residents in particular were rather excited about this event and made sure the rest of us knew it via Facebook and Twitter. Sandton’s largest Twitter account, @sandtontimes, compiled this beautiful Instagram photo compilation of the city’s snow – sourced from social networks.
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Facebook: Large, Unwanted Adverts Coming To Your Newsfeed Soon
15 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Share price is a fallin’, advertisers are a ballin’. So what’s next for Facebook? Forcing large, unwanted adverts in your face, that’s what.
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New Technology Scans Your Face And Checks You In On Facebook
14 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It would seem Facebook is getting scarier and scarier every day. A new technology is being tested that will place a camera outside a building, which will use your Facebook pictures to recognise you and then check you in and offer you a special deal. Cool, or creepy?
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Do “Likes” On Facebook Qualify As Freedom Of Expression?
08 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook recently entered the South African legal domain when the Durban High Court held that it is permissible for documents to be served through the social media platform. This begs the question though – what’s coming next?
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