South Africans have embraced social media as a core pillar of Internet activity in this country, along with e-mail, news and banking. MXit and Facebook lead the way in user numbers, while Twitter has seen the most dramatic growth in social networking in the past year, and BlackBerry Messenger is the fastest growing network [...]
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Fuseware questioned a variety of influencers from different fields in South Africa recently. The goal was to get a better picture of where South Africa, and the rest of the world, is headed in terms of social media usage in business. One thing has become completely apparent – social media is the new wave of [...]
The top three mobile networks in South Africa have always been the topic of much contentious debate. Fuseware has put our systems to work on seeing which one of the big 3 come out on top in online conversations. We pitched Vodacom, Cell C and MTN against each other, and compared them on Twitter. The [...]
To showcase a small snippet of the data that we analyze in our Social Insights Platform, we are proud to show you our Realtime Twitter trends page. It shows what the latest and greatest conversations are happening on Twitter in a given region, complete with Hashtags, influencers and conversation word clouds. Currently, we only support [...]
One of the top social media aggregation sites on the web, Digg, recently released a complete overhaul of its site design and functionality. The new service now focuses much more on mainstream media related content from large publishers, such as Mashable.com, CNN.com and BBC.co.uk. Along with a scaled back site design and many bugs, many [...]
Social media is an excellent tool, but many may not fully understand or utilize its benefits. Getting customer feedback Customers are always talking, and sometimes they talk about you. Ideally, they should talk to you directly and in a way easiest for them. Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter make it really easy [...]
Social media is a great way of connecting with your customers and getting feedback, and it has definitely exploded in popularity in developed countries. But what about developing nations, such as South Africa? South Africa has many social networking sites that are buzzing with information. This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise since over [...]
