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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Massive Backlash Over Playboy Model’s Reaction To Batman Shooting
24 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Here’s another strong case for why models should have their cellphones taken away: Tricia Evans. Not shortly after the Batman premiere shooting in Colorado, the model took to social network Twitter with the following tweet:
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Tweet-Controlled London Eye Light Show To Reflect Feelings About The Olympics
23 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Social media is being used more and more creatively in efforts to drive attention toward media campaigns. The London Eye will be the next vessel to provide the basis of a new experiment.
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Little Monsters Unite, Lady Gaga’s Social Network Is Live!
11 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
That’s right folks, just when you thought you the social networking market was saturated, Lady Gaga goes launches her own one, forcing you plunge once more into the pool of superficial social integration. However LittleMonsters.com, which is a little bit Facebook and little bit Pinterest with a dash of Reddit, claims to be more than just another glorified sharing app. Click for the full breakdown.
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Sweden’s Twitter Experiment Gets A Little Anti-Semitic
13 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Sweden has been handing its Twitter account to a different citizen every week for the past seven months. Which has been great for the most part, with priests and lesbian truck drivers representing the country – except the latest @sweden handler has been catching some flack for trying to figure out “whats the fuzz with jews.”
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China’s Twitter To Introduce Points System To Crackdown On Misuse
28 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Chinese users of online Twitter-alike Weibo can expect extra restrictions to the service in the wake of complaints from several authorities that users were publishing “false rumours” on the site, namely a “points system” to track and punish offensive posts.
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FHM Model Boasts On Twitter About Speeding, Bribing Traffic Cop
23 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 8 Comments
After boasting on Twitter that she got out of a R2 500 fine “for going 140 in a 60 zone” by paying a traffic cop R30, FHM model Sabina Essa received a call from Justice Project SA CEO Howard Dembovsky.
She then confessed to him that she merely sent the tweet for “some attention” from her followers. I honestly don’t know which of the two possible scenarios is worse.
Click ‘continue reading’ for full story..
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The Best Of Twitter In Your Inbox
15 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In February this year, Twitter unveiled a service that allows researchers, and anyone who has the money to pay for the service, to unlock the Twitter archives, as it were. They’ve expanded their product range again; and now you can get a weekly email summarising the most relevant tweets and stories distributed by the people on your timeline.
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Racist Ranting Itumeleng Mabeba Says He Was Hacked
10 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A short while ago, Jessica Leandra dos Santos and Tshidi Thamana seemed to try to apologise for their recent actions, as well as form some kind of friendship. But Itumeleng Mabeba, a man at the centre of hate speech allegations for sending a very disturbing tweet, has claimed his Twitter account was hacked. His employer is also instituting an internal disciplinary process against him.
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Twitter Rejects Subpoena For User Data
09 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a slightly surprising move, given the extent to which Google and Facebook have been compliant in handing data over to government enquiry, Twitter filed a motion (PDF) yesterday to block a subpoena that would force the company to turn over the data of one of its users, an arrested Occupy Wall Street protestor.
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BREAKING: DA’s New Open Letter To Both Racist Twitter Models
07 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 16 Comments
The DA’s National Spokesperson, Mmusi Maimane has penned an open letter, to Jessica Leandra Dos Santos, and Tshidi Tamane, who earned infamy last week by stinking up twitter with their respective outbursts of racist vitriol. Maimane offers to host both of the racist models at his home, for dinner. Read the whole thing, after the […]
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Oh Look, Another Racist SA Model Goes Off On Twitter! [PICS + Twitter Feed]
07 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 11 Comments
Just as Twitter was cooling off from last Friday’s Jessica Leandra furore, another South African model (and also actress, apparently) called Tshidi Thamana (@tshditee) set the infernos of South African outrage blazing once more with a tweet she fired off in response to the Leandra debacle this weekend. But the biggest question on our lips is, who the hell is Tshidi Thamana?
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Follow 2oceansvibe On Twitter For Breaking News
20 Apr 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
To stay on top of breaking news and what’s hot and happening around South Africa and the world, make sure you’re following 2oceansvibe on twitter. Our main Twitter stream is @2oceansvibe and Our 2ov Radio stream is @2ovfm.
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Twitter Rescues Johannesburg Man From Hijacking Attempt
11 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
An unnamed Johannesburg resident was robbed, kidnapped, and stuffed into the back of car on Sunday – but managed to send a text to his girlfriend, Lynn Peters who promptly posted a plea for help on Twitter. Frantic retweeting led to a Twitter-coordinated search by private security companies, who retrieved both the car and Peters’ boyfriend.
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Now It’s Helen Zille Versus The SA Human Rights Commission
05 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A youth activist based in Johannesburg has apparently laid a complaint with the SA Human Rights Commission (HRC) regarding Helen Zille’s tweet of almost two weeks ago, where she referred to scholars in the Eastern Cape that come to the Western Cape for schooling as “refugees”. Read his justification while Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” gently resonates in your head, after the jump!
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Everyone Panic, There’s Officially An Unfollow Bug On Twitter!
29 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Cue mass hysteria, Twitter has officially confirmed what many have suspected for some time, there’s a bug that causes twitter users to randomly unfollow people. It’s doubtful whether society will be able to function normally without their precious social media and in all likelihood this is the first sign of the impending apocalypse.
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Spike Lee Accidentally Terrorizes Innocent Elderly Couple
29 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
An blog post allegedly featuring the residential address of George Zimmerman – the man who killed Trayvon Martin – has gone viral. The post went viral after it was retweeted by Spike Lee to his 250 000 followers. Unfortunately, the address actually belongs to an innocent elderly couple, who now live in fear.
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British Student Jailed For Racist Muamba Abuse On Twitter [VIDEO]
28 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A Welsh university student has been jailed for 56 days for a “racially-aggravated public order offence” after making offensive tweets about Bolton Wanderers player Fabrice Muamba, who collapsed with heart failure during a FA cup tie with Tottenham Hotspur on March 17. See the full Twitter feed, after the jump.
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Twitter Unlocks The Tweet Archives
28 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For the first time ever, researchers will now be able to access extensive historical Twitter data. Previously, only the preceding 30 days of tweets were available for companies to search. The new move means that trend analysts and companies looking for specific insight will now be able to access tweets dating back two years.
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