Following the Cricket World Cup via Twitter updates may provide an ideal way to do so, but it is not without its pitfalls.
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/ 25 February 2011
SuperSport has let go of rugby commentator Andrew "Tank" Lanning after he revealed market-sensitive information about the company on Twitter.
In the past few weeks the world has been gripped by news from North Africa. Tunisia and Egypt are in the throes of change brought on by people power.
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/ 17 February 2011
Fuel cells got a vote of confidence and Twitter didn’t, Sony failed to impress, Apple failed to surprise, and the internet in Egypt disappeared.
A federal judge hears arguments on Tuesday on an order directing Twitter to hand over information on the accounts of people connected to WikiLeaks.
Can social media really promote democracy? <b>Chris Roper</b> argues for a more sophisticated understanding of freedom, enabled by technology.
Potholes, free education and ANCYL leader Julius Malema should be included in the president’s State of the Nation address, say Twitter users.
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/ 2 February 2011
US academic leads intellectual backlash against
online communication and social networking.
News of Nelson Mandela’s hospital visit sparked wild rumours internationally. The <i>M&G</i>’s <b>Vuvu Vena</b> gives her craziest five.
Social networking’s much-vaunted challenge to autocracies ‘has been undermined by the West’.
How Twitter took over our reporter’s virtual — and real — life and why she likes it that way.
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/ 13 January 2011
The M&G’s <b>Faranaaz Parker</b> rounds up five odd things you may have missed this week, including solitary trips to Mars and Big Brother US.
A US court has ordered Twitter to hand over details of the accounts of WikiLeaks and several supporters as part of a criminal investigation.
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/ 16 December 2010
Twitter has raised $200-million in a deal that values the company at $3,7-billion, less than a year after it began its first efforts to make money.
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/ 15 December 2010
Pakistan banned its cricketers from social networking sites Facebook and Twitter in the latest effort to exert discipline.
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/ 13 December 2010
Going out and looking for interesting news stories is SO last year. Follow us on Twitter instead.
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/ 23 November 2010
What’s a tweet, between friends? The law says sometimes it’s a threat, as various members of the Twitter community painfully found out.
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/ 18 November 2010
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams said the company was not running low on capital, amid media reports that it was considering raising funds.
A campaign mocking ANCYL president Julius Malema has proved popular on Twitter but concerns are being raised about the tone of the satire.
The ANCYL may be serious in warning those creating fake Twitter accounts of Julius Malema, but it seems to be the only one taking it seriously.
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/ 26 October 2010
Woolworths wasn’t the first company to feel the wrath of the online community in South Africa, and it certainly won’t be the last.
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/ 13 October 2010
We human beings are an irrational bunch. When anything new comes along we tend to take one of three basic positions: deify, deny or demonise.
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/ 10 October 2010
When a huge mudslide swamped a Chinese town in August, word first reached the world thanks to a digital camera-wielding micro-blogger.
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has stepped down as chief executive in order to focus on "product strategy".
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/ 21 September 2010
Twitter came under attack on Tuesday as hackers exploited a security flaw to wreak havoc on the micro-blogging service.
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/ 20 September 2010
Jonah Fisher, I now know how you must have felt when you got kicked out of that now-legendary press conference. Well, sort of, anyway.
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/ 18 September 2010
Harrisburg University in Pennsylvania initiates "blackout" of all social networking sites to discover effects of multitasking.
Glenn Agliotti is tweeting up a storm from court — and keeping his enemies closer than his friends.
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/ 2 September 2010
Kevin Pietersen has apologised for swearing in a Twitter outburst that revealed he had been dropped from England’s Twenty20 and ODI squads.
In the beginning was the word. And then came 140 words — or, more precisely, 140 characters.
A few months ago, I signed up to Twitter, not entirely convinced of its difference to Facebook.I did it because it might be good for me as a writer.
The technology scene has echoes of the
post-dotcom exhaustion of 2002 as we wait for mobiles to catch up.