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Using 140 characters or less, Chief Francis Kariuki in Kenya, has tweeted his way to reducing crime in his and surrounding villages.
Source: IPS
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South Africa tweets the most on the African continent ...
Source: Business Report
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Mosireen, a media collective responsible for collating some of the most iconic videos of the Egyptian revolution, is now one of the most popular non-profit channels in the world after just four months of being on YouTube
Source: Ahram Online
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Appfrica is the organizer and facilitator of the second annual Apps4Africa competition which rewards African technologists for developing creative solutions to some of the continent’s most challenging issues. 2011 was the second year we’ve done Apps4Africa, the first year culminated with this congratulatory message from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton:
Source: Afrinnovater
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“Kill me, kill me, you people should just kill me.” Those were the words of an unidentified woman as she was being gang raped by five men and her ordeal was filmed with one of their mobile phones.
Source: Africa Renewal Online
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Egyptian activist Aliya al-Mahdy denied on Tuesday that she was part of the April 6 Movement and wrote on her personal Twitter account that she was never part of the political group.
Source: Bikyamasr
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The long-awaited release of the most comprehensive study yet of social media in South Africa. It shows both Twitter and LinkedIn reaching 1.1-million users.
Source: Gadget
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The rapid uptake of Twitter by the general public is often ascribed to celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher, Lady Gaga, and Demi Moore. In South Africa, with the most followed users being mainly celebrities, the situation is similar.
Source: Memeburn
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A blog has been created to collect eyewitnesses’ testimonies over what happened on Sunday. The site is run by activists and independently aggregates the testimonies of those who witnessed the events firsthand.
Source: Al-Masry Al-Youm
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Online video sharing site YouTube, has announced the launch of a Kenyan domain, www.youtube.co.ke.
Source: Biz Community
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Some 200 Arab bloggers involved in cyberactivism will gather in Tunis Monday to discuss the role of the Internet and social networking in political change following the "Arab Spring", organisers said.
Source: IC Publications
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17 weeks 6 days ago
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A Zimbabwe court has tossed out charges against a man accused of urging his compatriots to copy mass protests in Egypt in a post to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Facebook wall, a lawyer said on Wednesday.
Source: IOL News
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If the tweets and status updates about the ANC Youth League's disciplinary hearing on Tuesday were advertising space, they would be worth R2-million.
Source: Times Live
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22 weeks 4 days ago
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Research firm Consumer Insight has published results of a survey among youth between the ages of 7 and 24 in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have revealed interesting aspects concerning the accessibility and use of the internet among this age group.
Source: Afrinnovator
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See Media Hack’s Saniti (SA Newspaper Influence on Twitter Index) rating ranks for South Africa’s largest news organisations by their perceived influence on Twitter
Source: MediaHack
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/16/
A new social networking platform is launched by A24Media in Nairobi. It will give everyone a chance to have their say and tell the world their story. Try it!
Source: A24Media
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/17/
A website for gay Kenyans has been launched in the capital, Nairobi, to help the small openly homosexual community cope with discrimination.
Source: BBC
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A Zimbabwean will go on trial next month over a Facebook post that pro-democracy protests in Egypt had sent shockwaves to the world's dictators and were worth imitating, a report said on Tuesday.
Source: News24
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In the last few days, following the May 14th tweeter exchange between President Paul Kagame and former editor of the Independent, journalist Ian Birrell, a buzz is going around on the new dimension social media brings to the already shrinking space between people from all corners of the planet and all walks of life.
Source: AllAfrica
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When a British journalist tweeted that Rwanda's longtime president was "despotic and deluded," he got a sharp reply - from the African leader himself, setting off an unprecedented online spat between a head of state and one of his critics.
Source: Times Live
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