{"id":8249,"date":"2009-06-01T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T09:16:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-06-01T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T09:16:00","slug":"mxit-beats-facebook-and-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/8249-mxit-beats-facebook-and-google.html","title":{"rendered":"MXit beats Facebook and Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MXit has beaten international brands like Google and Facebook in a recent Sunday Times survey. The Sunday Times Generation Next Survey research, conducted by HDI Youth Marketeers, polled 5,300 young urban South Africans between the ages of 8 and 22.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the third year running MXit has topped the poll in the Coolest Website and Social Network category. MXit&rsquo;s slogan &ldquo;Join the evolution&rdquo; came in second in the Coolest Brand Slogan category, after Nike&rsquo;s &ldquo;Just do it&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are so pleased with these accolades and would really like to thank our users. Our philosophy has always been squarely centred on making the mobile social networking experience a really valuable and fun one for our users, and these awards show us that this is working,&rdquo; says Herman Heunis, CEO and founder of MXit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=174330\"><strong>MXit versus Google &amp; Facebook<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; give your views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African youth votes MXit the \u2018Coolest Website and Social Network\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}