The African National Congress Women’s League has expressed outrage, anger and disgust at the gang rape of a 17-year-old Soweto teenager.
French social media users have been warned not to "bugger" the country’s election by talking about exit poll results before voting is officially over.
Women abuse AND the secrecy Bill? DJ Fresh’s hasty comments spell trouble, writes <b>Verashni Pillay</b>.
Liam Stacey, arrested for inciting racial hatred after Bolton star Fabrice Muamba collapsed on the field during a soccer match, has been jailed.
Swaziland is planning a censorship law that will ban Facebook and Twitter users from criticising Africa’s last absolute monarch, King Mswati III.
Brett Easton Ellis is mulling a sequel to <i>American Psycho</i> in which Patrick Bateman murders David Beckham and analyses Whitney Houston’s oeuvre.
Some may be rubbing their hands in glee at the prospect of an ANC without Julius Malema to rock the boat while others are speculating on his future.
The expansion in communication tools has deprived the Arabian regime of the secrecy and deception on which its legitimacy relied.
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/ 11 February 2012
Malaysian authorities have detained a young Saudi journalist who fled his country after Twitter comments he made about the Prophet Mohammed.
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/ 6 February 2012
People are more likely to give in to urge to tweet or check email than other cravings, say US researchers.
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/ 3 February 2012
Thailand has become the first government to publicly endorse Twitter’s controversial decision to censor messages in certain countries.
Notorious tweeter Nonhle Thema walks us through some of the finer points of <em>M&G</em>’s new social media policy.
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/ 27 January 2012
Compassion for other creatures can be both ordinary and profound.
South Africans are the most active tweeters on the continent, producing twice as many tweets as Kenya, the next most active country.
You could almost feel sorry for Google’s management team lately, writes <b>Alistair Fairweather</b>. Almost.
Twitter and Facebook have teamed up, creating ‘Don’t be evil’ software to counter the tweaking of search results in favour of Google’s social network.
Tiger Woods has used his Twitter account to say he’s practicing well ahead of his 2012 debut next week at Abu Dhabi.
Thabo Mbeki’s scepticism of social media’s role in democracy may seem outdated but the fact is there’s a lot of nonsense floating around online.
Thabo Mbeki has expresses his scepticism of Twitter and blogging, calling it a tool to spread "false knowledge" to advance certain groups’ agendas.
Google has angered Twitter and is accused of "warping" its search results and bending antitrust rules by boosting posts from its Google+ network.
Google stands accused of anti-competitive behaviour, but it’s not quite that simple, writes <b>Alistair Fairweather</b>.
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/ 14 December 2011
The Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabaab is matching its guerrilla campaign against the Kenyan army with a peevish war of words on Twitter.
The spokespeople of Kenyan soldiers and members of an extremist Islamist militant group have taken their battle to Twitter with insults flying.
Twitter has revealed its top hashtags of 2011, showing what the world’s tweeters had on their mind.
From Charlie Sheen to the Arab Spring, Twitter has revealed the most talked about #hashtag topics for 2011, with events in Egypt leading the pack.
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/ 22 November 2011
Some politicians have taken to using social media as a tool to measure social unrest, while others are using it to engage citizens and cut costs.
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/ 10 November 2011
SA has been atwitter with the news that Julius Malema had been fired as president of the ANCYL. We round up the tweets that made us laugh.
The chief executive of one of South Africa’s major banks explains why he loves using social media.
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/ 26 October 2011
Google and Twitter? Daft ideas, really. Groupon? Inspired! But look at them now, writes <b>Alistair Fairweather</b>.
No-nonsense opposition leader Helen Zille has become the subject of a global trending topic on Twitter. Here are the best and worst tweets.
From spoilt surprise parties to faux pas, Minister <b>Malusi Gigaba</b>, shares his Twitter story.
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/ 27 September 2011
The microblogging site joins Google, Facebook, Zynga and half a dozen other online firms that have set up an international headquarters in Dublin.