LGTNigeria Pulls Tweets and Pushes Them Into A Lagos Traffic Map
LGTNigeria has launched a live traffic map for Lagos, Nigeria. LGT is an acronym for “Let’s Go There”. The service relies on Google Maps and pulls tweets from the prolific @Gidi_Traffic and @trafficbutter. The Lagos traffic map is data driven and uses the Twitter API to filter and cleverly interpret the tweets from both accounts. To view traffic reports on a certain... Read More
Mobile Web West Africa 2012: Top 10 Tweets
If you missed the entire event that was Mobile Web West Africa and you also missed the hashtag #mwwa2012, here are the top 10 live tweets from the event. ‘Local content, simplicity and accessibility are the key to success.’ Read @samokocha‘s report from #MWWA2012: vc4afri.ca/vkn5y — Bertil van Vugt (@brutuz) April 30, 2012 “…when you showcase... Read More
MTN Subscribers Irate Over Sudden Loss Of Airtime
UPDATE: MTN has issued a statement on its official Twitter page acknowledging the problem and assuring customers that they intend to refund whatever amount of money deducted. MTN Subcribers went on a Twitter rampage earlier today to signal their disgust over the most recent MTN goof, which saw subscribers lose all their airtime. Sanusi Ismaila, an MTN employee on Twitter took... Read More
Twitter Opens Promoted Products For Small Businesses
Twitter has launched Promoted Products for Small Businesses. Promoted Products is its ad platform consisting of promoted tweets and accounts. This means there’ll be more ads on Twitter than you’ve seen before. The service is in partnership with American Express and is currently available via a special invite. Businesses who sign up for the service with get $100 in ad... Read More
It’s Twitter’s 6th Birthday: Here’s The Bible Verse That Predicted It
It’s been 6 years since @Jack launched Twitter and posted the first tweet. Here’s a bible verse from the book of Psalms that might have predicted the service. Its from Psalm 102:7 What hit me there is the word “Insomniac”. I’ve got a load of friends who can’t sleep due to the addictiveness of the service. You know, wanting to keep up with what’s... Read More
Gidi Traffic Gets New York Invite For Shorty Awards Nomination
If you live in Lagos and you use Twitter, you’re very likely to be following @Gidi_Traffic. If you don’t follow, you’ll definitely have seen retweets from the account. Gidi Traffic was set up in September by an Anonymous Twitter user to help share traffic reports across the city of Lagos. During the #OccupyNigeria protests, Gidi Traffic got a bit of an expansion... Read More
Twitter To Censor Tweets Locally
On Twitter’s blog, the company says ”As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression”. Twitter says prior to its post, the only way to take account of countries’ limits was to remove content that seemed illegal globally. From now on, Twitter will now be able to block... Read More
How To Tweet Via SMS, Incase BIS Goes Off
We received reports a few hours ago of plans to turn of BlackBerry Internet Service for Nigeria. Now when that happens, A lot of BlackBerry users will have problems connecting to BBM and other internet services. Here’s a step-by-step process for tweeting via SMS. Tweets via SMS cost N10 per tweet. On Your Computer Head to Settings on Twitter and click the ‘Mobile’... Read More
PhoneDog Vs. Noah Kravitz: Who Owns Twitter Followers?
Blogger Noah Kravitz is being sued by his former employer PhoneDog for 17,000 Twitter followers. PhoneDog says his Twitter followers are a customer list and are seeking damages of $2.50 per follower. Leading to a total of $340,000. Noah Kravitz left mobile phone site PhoneDog.com in 2010 and had been writing under the Twitter username @PhoneDog_Noah. When he left PhoneDog said... Read More
New New Twitter Is Here + How To Get It
Twitter has begun rolling out a newly designed interface of its web, iOS and Android platforms. The design comes with a rearrangement of the site, placing all relevant buttons at prominent positions on the header. There’s also a small change in Twitter lingo. ‘Mentions’ will be ‘connect’ and hashtags can be found with the ‘Discover button’.... Read More
