Comments on: What Twitter’s Global Failure Means for Africa

By: Twitter ya Kuweereza SMS ku Zain

Twitter ya Kuweereza SMS ku Zain — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:05:34 +0000

[...] ebisingawo tebinnafunibwa bulungi, okukomawo kwa Twitter eri Afirika kijja kuba kya maanyi nnyo. Share and [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:03:21 +0000

I see great promise with Twitter in Africa. I’m hoping SEACOM and other major fiber-optic plug ins to Africa will increase the number of users with reasonably fast connections and spread the twitter and facebook phenomena even further.

By: Who’s that Tweeting in Zain’s Ear? :Business Express

Who’s that Tweeting in Zain’s Ear? :Business Express — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:07:34 +0000

[...] While info rest unclear, the convey of Twitter to the African mart would be huge. [...]

By: Tostan

Tostan — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:30:30 +0000

@Evans Ebot; Same problem here in Senegal, where Tostan (US NGO) is currently trying to develop a SMS-based Community forum with UNICEF Innovation’s help (rapidSMS). Not financially viable yet… If anyone is interested, please visit http://jokkoinitiative.blogspot.com/ and contact me. Ready to brainstorm.

By: Evans Ebot

Evans Ebot — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:34:57 +0000

i do know of many Africans trying to develop something like Twitter with SMS alert capabilities, but end up killing the project, due to the fact that they can afford the high charges for SMS gateways, especially here in countries Cameroon where they still top the list of most expensive phone calls funny right, we have tried to work on some thing like to get to areas in Africa, still looking and hoping that we get to do things like that.

By: YouTube ‘burden’ creates opportunity in Africa « ICT 4 Uganda

YouTube ‘burden’ creates opportunity in Africa « ICT 4 Uganda — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:56:48 +0000

[...] me this sounds like the Twitter debate we’ve seen before. Why are people in less developed countries expected to use ‘watered down’ [...]

By: Nairobian Perspective

Nairobian Perspective — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:38:45 +0000

im aggregating african tweets at http://www.twibes.com/group/Afritweets, if you are an Afrocentric twitter user please join up!

By: YouTube ‘burden’ creates opportunity in Africa « ICT 4 Entrepreneurship

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:39:09 +0000

[...] sounds like the Twitter debate we’ve seen before. Why are people in less developed countries expected to use ‘watered down’ [...]

By: Get Lingala » NaijaPulse: Microblogging in Nigeria

Get Lingala » NaijaPulse: Microblogging in Nigeria — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:21:15 +0000

[...] platform, like Twitter, except made to operate in Nigeria (Twitter used to be global, but shut that down to just the US, Canada and India last summer). Everyone is tied to a 140-character update limit, [...]

By: NaijaPulse: Microblogging in Nigeria | White African

NaijaPulse: Microblogging in Nigeria | White African — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:01:26 +0000