Twitter Censorship Debate Continues
In the wake of their recent announcement that country-specific censorship was now an option for Twitter, outrage continues, and the CEO tries to contain the damage.
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Google Plus Lowers Age Limit
Expanding Google+ to include younger users, Google has lowered the age limit to allow users aged 13 and up to have a Google+ account.
Google+ In Search Engine Results
According to some recent reports, some of Google’s search results are starting to show Google+ content.
Users Resist Brands In Social Media
A recent study released by Digital Life has shown that the majority of internet users, both internationally, and in South Africa, don’t want to be bothered by brands in their social media experience.
Google+ Launches Brand Pages
As of today, Google+ has rolled out brand pages world wide, allowing companies, products or brands to have their own Google+ pages.
Social Media Marketing Drives Little Traffic
In today’s online marketing environment, social media marketing is a big buzz word. everybody is a social media expert, and everybody has a strategy to leverage your social media presence…
Twitter To Serve Promoted Tweets
According to recent news reports, Twitter announced yesterday that they will begin placing advertisements in users timelines, in a long anticipated attempt to effectively monetise the service.
Twitter Trends South Africa
Ever popular, socially revolutionary, mind-numbingly boring, information overload. No matter what you think about it, Twitter has become a pervasive feature of the information-age landscape for good or ill.
Blogging In South Africa
By now, we suspect that pretty much everybody on the internet knows what a blog is. If you don’t have one yourself, the chances are that you’re at least reading somebody else’s. They’ve become one of the most popular ways for people to express themselves online, and have proven effective platforms for certain types of businesses to communicate with their clients and / or users.
Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets A Day
On the official Twitter blog yesterday, the popular social media micro-blogging site Twitter finally released its own statistics. According to the post by a member of the Twitter analytics team, the site which allows users to post publicly readable status updates of up to 140 characters, is currently logging some 50 million “tweets” per day.
Microsoft Bing Gets Twitter
According to a news report released today, Microsoft has gained the coveted right to index the hugely popular micro-blogging platform, Twitter.
South Africa Tenth On Twitter
According to a recent report by Canadian research company Sysomos, South Africa has become the tenth largest twitter user in the world.
Twitter In Search Engine Talks
According to a report by ChannelWeb, the hugely popular micro-blogging service Twitter may have finally found a way to monetize the countless messages, (known as tweets) that are sent daily by it’s users.
Twitter Tests List Feature
Twitter announced yesterday that they have started testing a new feature for the popular micro-blogging service. The new “List” feature will allow users to organise their tweets by assigning them to various sub-categories.
Social Media Scams On The Rise
In a just released announcement by social media giant Facebook, the California-based company has warned its users to watch out for one of the old “419 scams” that has recently resurfaced on the social media network.
Is Social Media Marketing Worth The Effort?
Everybody knows about social media, (or social networking) these days. It’s no longer the next big thing, it’s a big thing right now. The real question though, is whether there’s any real marketing value to be had from it.
Social Networking Growth Predicted
According to a report released by the BMI-Techknowledge Group, a business-to-business commercial and industrial research group focusing on the high-tech industry, social networking in South Africa is set to increase by a factor of three over the next four years.
Twitter To Go Commercial?
According to a blog post made late last week by Biz Stone, co-founder of the increasingly popular micro-blogging platform Twitter, which has around 45 million users, the company has has changed its terms of service in such a way that it now “leaves the door open” for advertisers.
