Tag Archives: twitter

What a good idea

By 6000 | 6000 | March 18, 2010

Sometimes a good idea comes along and doesn’t get anywhere because it doesn’t get the support it deserves or needs to take off. I would give you examples, but because they never got the support they deserved or needed, I’ve never heard of them. Usually, the only ideas that ever get anywhere are those that [...]

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A Day of Twitter in South Africa

By 6000 | 6000 | February 25, 2010

There have always been a lot of discussions about the use of social media service twitter in South Africa. Apparently allegedly, there are those who tweet too much, over-utilising and polluting the service and there are those under-utilisers who tweet too little. Then there are the ones that use it for work – the creative [...]

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Fishhoek Shark Attack

By 6000 | 6000 | January 12, 2010

As tweeted by Fishhoek resident Gregg Coppen: He followed that up with this: Emergency services just arrived. It must have been a person. The shark breached it’s head out the water no remains http://yfrog.com/1dronnpj And then this: We are dumbstruck, that was so surreal. That shark was HUGE. Like dinosaur huge. #sharkattack #fishhoek Then later: [...]

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Fry Cocks up again

By 6000 | 6000 | November 20, 2009

With at least eleven people including a police officer currently missing and livelihoods, houses and belongings lost in the floods in Cumbria, Stephen Fry feels that it’s a good time to make a cheap and smutty gag about the worst hit area: I’m sure this will be lauded by his legion of 1,000,000+ automatons followers as hugely amusing, [...]

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“OMG! That’s disgusting!” Twitter and Stephen Fry’s ‘free speech’ hypocrisy

By 6000 | 6000 | October 20, 2009

Compare and contrast: Tuesday last week: The Trafiguragate scandal, whereby the multinational company, through solicitors Carter-Ruck, succeeded in blocking The Guardian newspaper from reporting on parliamentary goings-on, only to be forced into retreat when thousands of Twitter users (including Stephen Fry) got hold of the story and blew it wide open – effectively negating the [...]

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