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IOL Twitter account hacked The Twitter account for the Independent Online news website appears to have been compromised by mischievous hackers

Oscar’s tweets not in contempt of court Murder-accused Oscar Pistorius’s latest tweets were not in contempt of court, a media lawyer has said

Presidency asks Twitter to shut down accounts The Presidency is in the process of asking Twitter to close down fake accounts claiming to be Cyril Ramaphosa

Why hashtags matter for TV shows While some critics argue the second screen experience of looking at a device while a show is on serves to distract viewers, networks see nothing but an upside

Twitter COO Ali Rowghani resigns Twitter’s chief operating officer, Ali Rowghani, has resigned from his post and won’t be replaced

Tweetdeck offline after Twitter XSS attack A cross-site scripting exploit has hit Twitter’s own client software, Tweetdeck

CIA joins Twitter and Facebook “We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet” – CIA

Free Twitter on MTN MTN has launched a new promotion offering its Internet users free access to Twitter

FNB Twitter “joke” causes online storm FNB’s Twitter personality, Rbjacobs made a social media blunder on Tuesday (22 April), when a joke regarding the whereabouts of the bank’s widely-known “Steve” persona blew up in its face.

Twitter redesigns user profile pages Twitter unveiled a redesign of its user profile pages, the latest in a series of steps promised by the company to bring new users to the seven-year-old service.

Turkey keeps YouTube ban A Turkish court backtracks on an earlier ruling granting citizens access to the video-sharing site

Telkom ADSL promotion extended Telkom Internet has extended its double data and night surfer free data promotion for 3 months

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Twitter rages over satire tweet Sometimes satire isn’t made for Twitter’s 140-character world.

Twitter photo tagging and how to disable it Twitter has launched two new photo sharing features

Turks defy government Twitter ban Turkey’s president on Friday led the country’s Twitter users in defying a government ban on the social networking site that has been condemned by world leaders.

Turkey blocks Twitter, threatens to “wipe out” service Twitter went dark in Turkey late Thursday, just hours after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to “wipe out” the social network

More Twitter support for Malema than Zille EFF leader Julius Malema has more Twitter followers than official opposition leader Helen Zille, a study by Apurimac Media has found.

"Guilty" most used in Pistorius social media discussions People were likely to use the word ‘guilty’ more than ‘innocent’ in reference to the Oscar Pistorius murder trial

Twitter study shows football is top in Africa Posts about soccer topped Africans’ tweets last year, trumping even world events like the death of Nelson Mandela