{"id":97015,"date":"2014-02-18T17:14:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T15:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=97015"},"modified":"2014-02-18T17:19:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T15:19:11","slug":"top-sa-hacks-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/97015-top-sa-hacks-on-twitter.html","title":{"rendered":"Top SA hacks on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new version of the SA Hacks List<\/strong><\/a>, which lists local journalists which have Twitter accounts, was launched recently.<\/p>\n

The person behind this list, IOL editor Alastair Otter (@alastairotter), said that the new Hacks List (v2.0) is a complete rewrite of the code.<\/p>\n

\u201cA couple of years ago I started a small project to collect the Twitter handles of South African journalists. That first iteration was done using a Google spreadsheet but it quickly got complicated,\u201d said Otter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second version was built using a database, some PHP code and the Twitter API, which worked nicely until Twitter updated its API to standardise on OAuth for authorisation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t have the time to re-do the code when this happened so the Hacks List languished for a while. Until now. The new Hacks List (v2.0) is a complete rewrite of the code,\u201d said Otter.<\/p>\n

The SA Hacks List orders journalists according to name, followers, tweets, date joined or time listed.<\/p>\n

The journalists with the most followers are as follows:<\/p>\n

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  1. Barry Bateman – 137,059 followers<\/li>\n
  2. John Robbie – 129,623 followers<\/li>\n
  3. Redi Tlhabi – 127,570 followers<\/li>\n
  4. Leanne Manas – 99,799 followers<\/li>\n
  5. Ferial Haffajee – 87,429 followers<\/li>\n
  6. Mandy Wiener – 82,911 followers<\/li>\n
  7. Aki Anastasiou – 56,888 followers<\/li>\n
  8. Max du Preez – 53,783 followers<\/li>\n
  9. Stephen Grootes – 53,560 followers<\/li>\n
  10. Bruce Whitfield – 48,842 followers<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    A revamped version of the SA Hacks List, a list of local journalists on Twitter, has gone live<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":88401,"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":[36,5224,9605,23677,17354,23681,23675,2912,23679,23683,23685,11573,23305,405],"class_list":["post-97015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-aki-anastasiou","tag-alastair-otter","tag-barry-bateman","tag-bruce-whitfield","tag-ferial-haffajee","tag-hacks-list","tag-john-robbie","tag-leanne-manas","tag-mandy-wiener","tag-max-du-preez","tag-redi-tlhabi","tag-stephen-grootes","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97015"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}