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BY Kristen Schiele, University of Southern California Elon Musk’s recent rebranding of Twitter as X is a step toward the…

by Lisa Garbe, WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Senegal’s government has shut down internet access in response to protests about…

by Casey Fiesler, University of Colorado Boulder Twitter’s move on July 1, 2023, to limit the number of tweets users…

Meta is in the early stages of building a decentralised, standalone dedicated app for people to post text-based updates to…

by Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University Social media services have generally been free of charge for users, but now, with…

What do a cybersecurity researcher building a system to generate alerts for detecting security threats and vulnerabilities, a wildfire watcher…

There is a widespread view that labour has become irrelevant as a force for change. The argument goes that the…

Elon Musk announced that “the bird is freed” when his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter officially closed on Oct. 27,…

Famed entrepreneur Elon Musk – the richest man in the world with an estimated fortune of $241 billion – now…

Social network platform Twitter announced that it is integrating podcasts into its platform as part of its newly designed Spaces Tab.…

By James Stent and Nathan Geffen Between 11 and 13 August, the hashtag #KnowYourNationalLottery trended to the number one position on Twitter in…

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and founder of Tesla and SpaceX, recently made an offer to buy the social…

Twitter reports that fewer than 5% of accounts are fakes or spammers, commonly referred to as “bots.” Since his offer…

The U.S. has been warning for weeks about the possibility of Russia invading Ukraine, and threatening retaliation if it does.…

Invenfin, the venture and growth capital division of South African investment group Remgro, announced the acquisition by Aleph of South African…

Twitter announced Tuesday that it is revising its privacy policy to block the sharing of photos and videos of people…

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is stepping down as chief executive of the company. The social media giant said he will…

Twitter announced that it would sell MoPub to Nasdaq-listed AppLovin, a marketing software company, for $1.05 billion or R15.7 billion in…

If you use such social media websites as Facebook and Twitter, you may have come across posts flagged with warnings…

A South African worker employed by one of the country’s biggest insurer was fired for tweeting to President Cyril Ramaphosa…

Square, the digital payment company, run by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, has bought Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter’s streaming platform Tidal. As…

Revue, a Dutch startup that allows users to publish and monetize email newsletters, has been bought by social media giant…

by Katharine Gelber, The University of Queensland The recent storming of the US Capitol has led a number of social…

Big changes in the tech sector, especially for the mobile market, is nothing new, even over the past few months…

A South African law firm is warning people of the dangers of publishing, sharing and forwarding defamatory messages on social…