Tag: twitter
Caspar Lee – the SA teenager with 500 000 plus Twitter followers [pic]
Posted by on May 17th, 2013

Did you know that there is a teenager in South Africa with over half a million Twitter followers? Neither did i, but now you do. Caspar Lee is by all definitions an internet sensation and… Read More »

SABC footage of Zuma and the ANC visiting Mandela causes public outrage [video]
Posted by on Apr 30th, 2013

Just yesterday i wrote a rare political post directed at the ANC and DA about their childish poster war HERE and my second last line was “Leave Mandela and his legacy out of it and… Read More »

AP twitter hack on fake White House explosions wiped out $140 billion in U.S. stock market value
Posted by on Apr 24th, 2013

Ya hey…it seems like everyone is getting hacked nowadays and usually it will make you look like a tool or make you lose some credibility, but rarely will it cause some serious implications…well that was… Read More »

Kenny Kunene calls DA spokesperson a ‘f**ken political cockroach’ and says he loves being a victim of rape
Posted by on Apr 15th, 2013

Right…all eyes are currently on Kenny ‘Sushi King’ Kunene and his Twitter account right now because in the last 30 min he has tweeted ‘I get gang raped by women….I’m not a rapist….I’m a victim… Read More »

Pope Benedict XVI officially resigns and deletes all his tweets [pic]
Posted by on Mar 1st, 2013

The leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, has officially resigned…the first pope to step down since the Middle Ages. He said goodbye yesterday with his final words as pope being, “I am simply… Read More »

Vinepeek lets you see all Vine videos continually streaming in realtime
Posted by on Jan 28th, 2013

By now you would have learned of Twitter’s Vine app which lets users create and share six-second clips on the social network. It launched last week and is quickly being adopted by people willing to… Read More »

Twitter hashtag FAIL of the year goes to Susan Boyle for #susanalbumparty [pic]
Posted by on Nov 22nd, 2012

Hashtags are important on Twitter hey..they provide a focus point and key word for users to easily find and spread a particular term or event. Choosing the right hashtag though is vital…something which Scottish singing… Read More »

Social media FAIL of the day – British Airways retweet offensive and racist message [pic]
Posted by on Nov 19th, 2012

I know plenty of you are in the business of handling the social media for South African brands and it’s become rather amusing to highlight when a company f**ks up so here’s a quick update… Read More »

Lance Armstrong critisised for posting THIS image on Twitter [pic]
Posted by on Nov 12th, 2012

The useless Monday morning celebrity gossip today comes courtesy of former cycling legend Lance Armstrong who over the weekend received widespread critisism for sending out this not-a-f**k-was-given pic on Twitter. Armstrong who was banned for… Read More »

Obama victory tweet breaks all time RT record in less than an hour [pic]
Posted by on Nov 7th, 2012

Ya hey…Barack Obama is now officially the US President for another four years and he can add a Twitter record to the list of bragging rights he picked up today. Within an hour of posting,… Read More »