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Quoted Replies: The viral Twitter bot built by a Nigerian

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Social Media Roundup: Fighting insurgency with spiritual warfare?

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Social Media Roundup: How Bovi is breaking the bro code

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Video creators in Africa can now earn money from Facebook with ‘Ad Breaks’

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Hackers now target WhatsApp Accounts: How to avoid being hacked

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What advertising experts are saying about APCON’s move to vet online ads in Nigeria

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Your period-tracking app may be sharing your data with Facebook

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Social Media Roundup: No reception

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Facebook may hide like counts to reduce pressure of self-comparison among users

15 million Nigerians use Facebook

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Twitter temporarily disables tweeting via SMS after its CEO got hacked

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Social Media Roundup: FBI arrests about 80 Nigerians for Internet fraud

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5 things you need to know about Ayoba, MTN’s newly launched messaging app

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Social Media Roundup: Maraji’s take on religion

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Social Media Roundup: #RevolutionNow

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Uganda’s government just made the Internet more expensive for online media practitioners

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Your Twitter account may have been suspended by accident

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African meme accounts are becoming big on Instagram, but this comes at a price

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Random or not so random suspensions are currently ongoing on Twitter

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Social Media Roundup: Best Rapper in Africa

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The Rise of Micro-influencers in Africa





















Quoted Replies: The viral Twitter bot built by a Nigerian

If you’re a regular Twitter user, you might have seen the @QuotedReplies handle under some of the most popular tweets or even used it. Here’s the how it came to be.

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Social Media Roundup: Fighting insurgency with spiritual warfare?

This week on social media; the Nigerian army is enlisting the help of religious organisations to fight terrorism, Tiwa Savage vs Charles Anazodo and other stories.

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Social Media Roundup: How Bovi is breaking the bro code

This week on social media, Bovi is pranking his friends, MC Oluomo in UNILAG and other stories

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Video creators in Africa can now earn money from Facebook with ‘Ad Breaks’

Video creators in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa can now monetise their content with Facebook Ad Breaks

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Hackers now target WhatsApp Accounts: How to avoid being hacked

Here are a few ways to avoid being hacked on WhatsApp

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What advertising experts are saying about APCON’s move to vet online ads in Nigeria

We spoke to experts from some of the top advertising agencies in Nigeria to see how they’re reacting to APCON’s move to vet online advertising

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Your period-tracking app may be sharing your data with Facebook

Women using popular period-tracking apps may just be sharing a lot more with strangers than they may have bargained for.

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Social Media Roundup: No reception

This week on social media; a Nigerian wedding with no reception, xenophobia in South Africa and other stories

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Facebook may hide like counts to reduce pressure of self-comparison among users

Just like Instagram is openly testing in seven countries including Canada and Brazil, Facebook may remove like counts on news feed posts by users

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Twitter temporarily disables tweeting via SMS after its CEO got hacked

Shortly after the CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey’s account was hacked, Twitter temporarily suspends tweeting via text message

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Social Media Roundup: FBI arrests about 80 Nigerians for Internet fraud

This week on social media; about 80 Nigerians indicted in the US for internet scam, Opay was trending on Twitter and other stories

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5 things you need to know about Ayoba, MTN’s newly launched messaging app

MTN launched it’s own instant messaging app — Ayoba

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Social Media Roundup: Maraji’s take on religion

This week on social media, Maraji’s take on religion, Huddah Monroe is trending in Kenya and more stories.

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Social Media Roundup: #RevolutionNow

This week on social media; Omoyele Sowore arrested in association with #RevolutionNow, Toke Makinwa wants travel companies to sponsor her girls trip to Thailand and more stories.

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Uganda’s government just made the Internet more expensive for online media practitioners

The Ugandan government just made accessing the Internet more expensive for media practioners in the country

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Your Twitter account may have been suspended by accident

Following a wide-spread suspension that swept through Twitter on Monday*,  the company has confirmed that it may have been an error and that some of the accounts have been restored

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African meme accounts are becoming big on Instagram, but this comes at a price

Africans love to laugh, and thanks to the myriad of accounts dedicated to comedy on Instagram, it has become one of the top destinations for humorous content

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Random or not so random suspensions are currently ongoing on Twitter

Like Thanos’ infinity gauntlet, Twitter has been suspending accounts in a seemingly random manner.

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Social Media Roundup: Best Rapper in Africa

This week on social media; reviving rap in Nigeria powered by Blaqbonez, men showed off their partners on #NationalGirlfriendsDay and more stories.

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The Rise of Micro-influencers in Africa

For micro-influencers in Africa, the focus is less on their scale and more on building a hyper-engaged community. And this type of community is becoming increasingly valuable to advertisers of 2019.

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