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/ 12 September 2011
If you share a name with someone on Twitter, you had better hope that someone is a paragon of virtue, or you may find yourself fending off abuse.
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/ 6 September 2011
If Avusa’s woes teach us anything, it’s that readers are more stringent than a watchdog could ever be, says <b>Verashni Pillay</b>.
When the War of the Races hots up the first casualty is the ability to actually listen to what people are saying, writes <b>Chris Roper</b>.
How secure is your password for email and various social networks? Not very, which is why Google, Hotmail and Facebook have implemented a new system.
Some high-profile South Africans on Twitter have taken on those calling for the blood of ANCYL leader Julius Malema.
Twitter — boosted by DST Global’s $400-million investment — is worth double its December value, with its daily traffic tripling in a year.
Twitter users fired off a record number of tweets per second at the final whistle of Japan’s upset win over the US in the women’s World Cup final.
I’ve been using Google+ for a few days now and, despite being a "limited field test", it has a brilliant approach to privacy, writes Paul Jacobson.
Barack Obama replied to a barrage of questions about the economy from Twitter users in the social media-savvy president’s first "Twitter Town Hall".
Members of Cuba’sTwitter community gathered on Friday to put faces to names in a meeting where political viewpoints were off limits.
Pope Benedict XVI has tweeted for the first time, announcing the launch of a Vatican news information portal.
The illusion that corporations like Facebook or Twitter are public utilities is not only naive, it’s positively pernicious.
Social media enthusiasts in the All Blacks World Cup squad will be banned from updating their Twitter and Facebook pages during the tournament.
Nato is using information gleaned from Twitter to help analysts judge which sites could be targeted by commanders for bombing and missile strikes.
Educators take to Twitter to meet the needs of their learners.
When Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt couldn’t reach his counterpart in Bahrain by traditional means of communication, he turned to Twitter.
A British lawmaker had defied a court ruling to name Ryan Giggs as the footballer who used an injunction to keep details of an alleged affair secret.
We’re breathing a sigh of relief that those pesky elections are over.
A harried week of phone banking and social networking marked parties’ final drive.
The Rwandan president was revelatory in his self-exposure. Shame so few of his own people saw it.
It’s always been a reporter’s job to follow up stories, unlikely or not — so what’s new?
ANC mayors in Gauteng will set up Twitter and Facebook accounts ahead of the local elections — but won’t be doing any actual tweeting themselves.
President Jacob Zuma began tweeting on Tuesday gathering over 600 followers within an hour of his first post.
Manchester United midfielder Darron Gibson’s social networking experiment proved short-lived when he closed his Twitter account on Monday.
Ian Dodsworth, the British founder of TweetDeck, is reportedly in advanced talks to sell his firm to Twitter for $50-million.
Nelson Mandela is now on Twitter, after his foundation convinced a British man to hand over the @NelsonMandela account, his office said on Monday.
Lights will go out around the world on Saturday with hundreds of millions of people set to take part in the Earth Hour climate change campaign.
Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, is to join the <i>Huffington Post</i> as the media firm adds big names to its roster following its takeover by AOL.
Technology giants Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter are offering digital ways to donate to Japan’s recovery efforts after their massive earthquake.
After demanding its "closer", the ANCYL has snuck on to Twitter, along with some other high-profile people. But they’re not getting it quite right.
Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen has gone from Twitter virgin to one million followers in under two and a half days.
Actor Charlie Sheen’s public meltdown has made international headlines. Better yet, it provided cannon fodder for the idle minds on the internet.