Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | They say Information is power and that an informed person is an empowered person, just like informed communities are empowered communities. However, the level of how much people and communities are informed varies across, based on several factors, including urban-rural, education and income, and this …
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Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Chief of Defence Forces Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba is fully back on X (twitter). His latest is a tweet critical of Presidential advisor and brother in law Odrek Rwabogo, that he deleted soon after. He had taken a sabbatical most of 2023, after President Yoweri …
Read More »Over 19 million join Trump X space, 122 million view his tweet as he vows to work with Putin
NEW YORK | TASS | US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said that he hopes to get on well with Russian President Vladimir Putin again if he wins the upcoming presidential election. “I got along with Putin very well, and he respected me,” Trump said in an interview with …
Read More »X, formerly Twitter, to collect biometric and employment data
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | X, formerly known as Twitter, will collect biometric data on its users, such as a photograph of their face, in an update to its privacy policy, BBC reported. People signed up to its subscription service, X Premium, can choose to provide a selfie and photo …
Read More »Trump returns to Twitter amid interference case
Washington, US | Xinhua | Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday returned to the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, after he was banned from the service more than two years ago. Trump on Thursday night posted a mug shot of his with the caption: ELECTION INTERFERENCE, NEVER …
Read More »Elon Musk to auction Twitter signs
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Multi-billionaire Elon Musk is putting Twitter building signs and other items from the company up for auction just weeks after the firm’s rebranding as X, BBC reported on Aug.10. Among the 584 lots on offer are coffee tables, outsized bird cages, and oil paintings of …
Read More »Threads versus Twitter
Why Meta’s app is the biggest threat to Twitter yet after gaining 30 million users in less than 24 hours of launch COMMENT | LISA M. GIVEN | The launch of social media app Threads as a competitor to Twitter is a game-changer. Meta, which also owns Facebook and Instagram, launched …
Read More »Elon Musk’s tyranny at Twitter
The Political-Economic implication of surrendering unregulated authority to the whims of an eccentric billionaires COMMENT | NNANDA KIZITI SSERUWGI | Twitter owner Elon Musk on July 01 announced the “Rate limit exceeded” policy on the online social networking service. This means that you have reached the limit for the number …
Read More »Meta launches social networking app Threads
San Francisco, US | Xinhua | Meta’s Instagram announced on Wednesday the launch of its new social networking app Threads. As the company’s Twitter competitor, Threads allows Instagram users to authenticate with their existing credentials to post short updates, including photos, links, texts up to 500 characters and videos up …
Read More »Elon Musk introduces new CEO of Twitter
San Francisco, USA | Xinhua | Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced on Friday that Linda Yaccarino, formerly NBC Universal’s top advertising sales executive, will be Twitter’s new CEO. Musk said in a tweet that Yaccarino will focus on business operations and he will focus on product design and new …
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