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The Internet Is Angry With This Smiley Auschwitz Selfie Pic
22 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A teen who took a happy Auschwitz selfie say it was taken out of context and wants everyone to leave her alone.
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Teenage Girl Sends Naked Pic to Dad By Mistake – Dad Freaks [Video]
10 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Teen does the unthinkable and accidentally sends a naked picture of herself to her dad. There’s no coming back from that, ever!
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These Are The Best Brazil Vs Germany Memes
09 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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Robin Thicke’s Social Media Experiment Bombed Spectacularly
03 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Robin Thicke’s #AskThicke social media campaign backfired, leaving him open the some ridiculing from the Twitterverse.
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End Of The World? Chaos As Facebook Crashes Globally
19 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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You’ve Heard About The ‘Leg Gun’ Selfie Craze, Right? Check It Out
18 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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Do You Work In Social Media? Here’s Your Ultimate Cheat Sheet [Infographic]
05 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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Here Is The Afrikaans Version Of Twitter, Called Toeter
03 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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Is Twitter Gaming The New Thing?
22 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Cartoon creator may have just changed the way you look at Twitter…
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Tech Report: This Is How You Twar Before The Election [VIDEO]
24 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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US Airways Tweeted An Extremely Graphic Image Of A Woman [N5FW]
15 Apr 2014 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Yesterday, a US Airways customer took to Twitter to engage the airline on some aspect of their experience that they weren’t too chuffed about. This is how the conversation started. And then US Airways tweeted a frigging picture of a woman using a model plane as a sex toy. Yep. We’re saying this for the […]
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This One Tweet Sums Up How Gerrie Nel Has Torn Pistorius’ Defence To Pieces [PIC]
14 Apr 2014 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
If you’re watching the Oscar Pistorius trial, you’re witnessing the defendant getting himself into knots on the stand. This one tweet captures exactly how badly the morning has gone for Ozzy P.
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New Twitter Design Is Basically A Copy Of Facebook
09 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Twitter recently launched a redesign of its user profile, which will roll out to all users over the next few weeks. But the new profile design is basically a carbon copy of Facebook. Can’t Twitter just stay Twitter.
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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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#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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hollywood Journo’s Tweet Leads To Angry / Hilarious Twitter Backlash
09 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You would think that entertainment journalist and Deadline.com founder Nikki Finke would do better to avoid social media faux pas like “don’t try and endorse a movie whilst also paying respect to the dead”.
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Fake Kanye West / Mandela Story Goes Viral, With Times Live Adding Momentum
09 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There were whispers in the air on Friday afternoon claiming that a certain Kanye West had overstepped the line once and for all. Local newspapers sparked a furious outrage on Twitter, when they claimed that West had promised to become ‘the next Mandela’.
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The 10 Most Distracting Smartphone Apps When Driving [INFOGRAPHIC]
27 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For many of us, Smartphones have become an extra limb. It is an extended part of who we are, so it only makes sense to use it at all times. Or does it? Sure, sitting in traffic is boring, but that’s not an excuse to reach for your phone – no matter how tempting that blinking light is.
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Comedy Gold: Tony Ehrenreich Will Punish You For Having More Tweets Than Followers [PICS]
21 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
Tony Ehrenreich is South African trade-unionist and regional secretary of the Western Cape region of COSATU. He’s also a social media badass, and has absolutely no time for you if you have more tweets than followers. Check this out.
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Instagram Accounts Make This Man Look Psychic [VIDEO]
19 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
In this week’s installment of “Well, What Did You Expect?” we profile a man named Jack Vale, who people are calling a ‘psychic’ .
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Check Out The Stuff That Gets Censored On China’s Twitter
15 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
We tend to forget the privilege that is Freedom of Speech. Countries like China, who are ruled by an oppressive one-party regime, face daily instances of censorship – especially on their social media sites.
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The New Justin Bieber-Backed App Has Launched – Get It Here If You Care
14 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Well that’s it – the final nail in the coffin. Thanks to Justin Bieber’s new ‘selfie app’, the selfie has become a fully fledged art form. Let us join each other in putting brown paper bags over our heads, and wait for it to be over.
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