Robin Thicke’s #AskThicke social media campaign backfired, leaving him open the some ridiculing from the Twitterverse.
A sneaky little “Buy Now” button has appeared on several Tweets of late and they seem to be a sneak peek of what the future of twitter shopping holds. Think it will work outside the USA?
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.
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.
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.
So the Pres has a Twitter account (even if he doesnt use it) but it seems he is one of very few in the newly named government who has such savvy advisers.
So far advanced was the planning of their nuptials that wedding invites had been sent out.
Then Rory announced to the media that they have had a very amicable split. End of story. Nothing further.
Cartoon creator may have just changed the way you look at Twitter…
Poor old Jen. She does need to understand, at some point, that from now on nothing she ever says will be private. Actually that realisation should have happened the day her twitter following broke the one hundred thousand mark.
SME’s can now make even bigger waves with this ingenious marketing tool from Twitter tailor made to suit them. Right here in South Africa!
This is one priceless T-Shirt idea….
Look what our friend Simon found for us on Tim Norton’s (@norton_tim) twitter account today : “Dude at work was complaining that his spoons were slowly disappearing from the lunch room. He had brought 6 to work and he was down to 2 . Everyone else in his lab hatched this plan: Every time someone […]
This is beyond genius. This is next-level marketing. And we totally love it. How do you make a mockery out of the election posters that constantly nag us to show support for individual political parties and not do much else with our lives during the week ahead? You tell the population to live their lives […]
Big Brother Mzansi contestants Mandla and Lexi have yet again decided that fornication on national television is a normal thing with in which to partake. We think that if you are going to do something like this, you might as well just make a porno. At least make it lucrative for yourself, right? The outcry […]
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.
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.
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.
Twitter’s recent tweaks to their photo sharing experience allows tweeters to tag people in posted photos. So before you get your panties in a bunch about the tagging, here’s how you can disable the function if you want to.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Faithful fans will always defend their idol. Chris Brown has a Twitter following that defends him every time he is in the news for assault or domestic violence charges and they go by the hashtag #teambreezy. Oscar Pistorius also has his own Twitter fan club that lend their full support: #Pistorians.
And the award for temporarily crashing Twitter and posting the most retweeted selfie ever goes to Ellen DeGeneres. Ellen’s Oscar selfie garnered 2.3 million retweets, eclipsing Obama’s famous victory selfie (780,063 retweets) in just over half an hour.
2oceansviber @sanitycheeks spotted something quite odd yesterday: Two tweets from the highly publicised @oscarhardtruth Twitter account were deleted. Luckily there is a screenshot of the tweets before they were removed.
Even God has a Twitter account, so why not Pistorius’s PR team. A week before Oscar Pistorius goes on trial his public relations team have set up a Twitter account, that claims to reveal the truth about the trial’s proceedings.
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.
Nothing on the internet is safe, not even your Twitter handle. Naoki Hiroshima found this out when his websites and social media accounts were held for ransom by a hacker. All the hacker wanted in return was Hiroshima’s Twitter handle, @N, worth $50,000.
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.
News about Justin Bieber’s run-in with the law spread around the web like wildfire, and some of these celebrity reactions will have you in stitches.