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Tue, April 30th, 13:27 · Kamau Mbote

Twitter urges news organisations to be vigilant

Twitter has warned news organisation they will remain high profile targets for hackers, urging them to remain vigilant and secure. → Read more
Tue, April 30th, 09:41 · Susan Mwenesi

Outside audit affirms Facebook’s privacy policies

An independent audit has given Facebook’s privacy practices a clean bill of health after a six-month investigation following a settlement with federal regulators → Read more
Tue, April 30th, 07:41 · Nanine Steenkamp

Social media should create a positive change, says SOA

Social media should follow the course of nature by creating positive change, according to Deon Robbertze, founder at sustainability communications platform Sustain Our Africa (SOA). → Read more
Tue, April 30th, 06:00 · Brandon Gregory

Efemr, delete tweet in #1h

Free web and mobile application Efemr has been launched to help Twitter users control their reputation and better protect their privacy through automatic deletion. → Read more
Mon, April 29th, 13:24 · Tom Jackson

Posterous warns users to back up Spaces

Posterous has warned users to back up their Spaces by April 30, the date on which the site and its mobile apps will be turned off. → Read more
Mon, April 29th, 07:09 · Tom Jackson

Zuckerberg reaped $2.3 billion windfall pre-IPO

Facebook chief executive officer (CEO) Mark Zuckerberg exercised 60 million stock options shortly before the company’s initial public offering (IPO) last year, reaping a gain of nearly US$2.3 billion. → Read more
Thu, April 25th, 14:52 · Brandon Gregory

Social media as a means of customer engagement

Michael Renzon, chief executive officer of inQuba, believes social media can become a “playground” for customer experience professionals and executives, but engagement needs to be improved. → Read more
Thu, April 25th, 07:59 · Gabriella Mulligan

“I am not Robin Van Persie,” says Indian IT professional

An Indian ICT professional has been bombarded with Tweets by jubilant Manchester United fans congratulating Robin Van Persie on inspiring his team to the English Premier League title, via the wrong Twitter profile. → Read more
Wed, April 24th, 13:59 · Kamau Mbote

Ugandan president’s #sackofmoney causes uproar on social media

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni donation of USh250 million (US$100,000) to a group of youth in Busoga without saying how the money would be used has caused uproar on social media. → Read more
Wed, April 24th, 08:02 · Kamau Mbote

AP Twitter account hacked, reports White House explosion

The Associated Press (AP) Twitter account has been hacked, with a tweet reporting an explosion at the White House and injuries to Barack Obama prompting US markets to fall. → Read more
Tue, April 23rd, 08:19 · Richard Cutcher

FIFA president has Twitter account hacked

Sepp Blatter, the controversial president of football’s world governing body FIFA, appeared to go on a bizarre Twitter rampage last night, ultimately resigning, before it emerged his account had been hacked. → Read more
Mon, April 22nd, 17:01 · Richard Cutcher

500k downloads and mixed reviews of Facebook Home

The much anticipated Facebook Home app, which lets the network seemingly take over an Android device, has been downloaded 500,000 times since its release on April 4. → Read more
Mon, April 22nd, 14:05 · Kamau Mbote

Kenyans on Facebook mount campaign to recall ‘rogue’ MP

Kenyan users of Facebook have taken to the network to seek public approval to throw Igembe South member of parliament (MP) Mithika Linturi out of the legislative house after calling for a pay rise for MPs. → Read more
Mon, April 22nd, 08:23 · Tom Jackson

SA man to sue police officer over Facebook photo

A South African man is to sue a high-ranking policewoman who allegedly posted a picture of his stepson on Facebook, accusing him of theft. → Read more
Mon, April 22nd, 07:44 · Paul Adepoju

We all have a stake in social media – David Fasanya

Nigeria-born American poet David Fasanya says every user of social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter has a stake in the networks. → Read more
Fri, April 19th, 15:32 · Nanine Steenkamp

Design expert says UX requires scientific approach

User experience (UX) should be approached as a science in measuring human behaviour, Indian design expert Srini Srinivasan said at an educational session in Cape Town, South Africa. → Read more
Fri, April 19th, 14:04 · Paul Adepoju

Russia’s Facebook gives investigators insight into Boston bomb suspect

Russian social network VKontakte has given the FBI insight into the personality of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second suspect allegedly responsible for the bomb blasts at Monday’s Boston Marathon. → Read more
Fri, April 19th, 13:51 · Gabriella Mulligan

Twitter commissions reactive #Flock cuckoo clock

Twitter UK has commissioned a limited edition wireless cuckoo clock, known as the #Flock, which reacts to events on its owner’s Twitter account. → Read more
Fri, April 19th, 12:29 · Nanine Steenkamp

Google Maps detects possible murder case

Debate is raging as to whether an image from Google Maps is an aerial view of a bloody corpse or a wet dog. → Read more
Fri, April 19th, 07:32 · Brandon Gregory

Scaling Facebook with 1bn monthly users with “tens of thousands” of servers

Neil Blakey-Milner, a production engineer for Facebook's core systems, says Facebook’s construction of its own data centres is helping to scale the world’s largest social media site. → Read more