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With April Fools’ Day right around the corner, YouTube announced it will be shutting down after eight years in business and will no longer accept videos. The news comes, of course, just before April Fools’ Day. The company teamed up with The Onion to create a YouTube-star-studded video explaining how the site was set up as part of a contest to find the...

Timeline profiles and visiting the News Feed. As the Wall Street Journal notes, Instagram already uses hashtags to let users sort photos. Given that Facebook acquired Instagram last year, hashtags could be a way for the company to bring the two services closer together. The hashtag, much like the @ sign, was one of the features that made Twitter difficult to adopt...

Why won’t they let Goldie rest in peace? The star seems to be more controversial from the great beyond than when she was alive and well. And it keeps getting more colourful. It appears that some unidentified individual has taken the reins of the deceased pop singer’s tweeter account and is using it as a publicity platform to promote Nigerian movies as well as...

With the enormous success of #SMWLagos Day 1, We believe it is vital to keep you and your audience informed as regards the daily event schedule and other important details so you can share on your platforms.  A total of 25 major events will taking Place Today Tuesday,19th February 2013 which is Social Media Week Lagos Day 2 for attendees determine which event...

Banky W’s love concert held at the Civic center and despite their alleged split (resulting from his absence on Banky’s album, setting up his own record label, indirect tweets, and stories by entertainment insiders), Wizkid showed up with his girlfriend but had no participation in the concert, he was just like a regular guest. With no interaction from previous...

  After Burger King’s Twitter hijacking the other day, we would certainly have assumed all major brands would boost their passwords on Twitter. Obviously, we were incorrect, as Jeep’s account has actually been hacked today by the very same pranksters. Jeep’s Twitter account now has the following description: “The official Twitter handle for the...

This week’s big tech release wasn’t a smartphone, tablet, or PC. It was a video app from Twitter, known as Vine. The iOS app lets users create six-second clips, and share them on networks like Twitter, Facebook, or the Vine app itself. The videos loop over and over unless you tap on them, creating a very GIF-like experience. Vine is the No. 13 top free...

Michelle Obama’s office reported on said Thursday that it had opened up a Twitter account, as the US First Lady turned 49 today. The account is @ FLOTUS, the acronym for First Lady of the United States, and it will be managed by the first lady’s team. Tweets penned by the firt lady erself will certainly have her initials– mo As of midday Thursday,...