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

By: ICTD.de » Social Media and Democratisation in Africa – Starting the Conversation

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:40:31 +0000

[...] accessed May 2011. [5] For reference see Erik Hershman’s White African blog: whiteafrican.com/2008/08/14/what-twitters-global-failure-means-for-africa/ and whiteafrican.com/2011/03/09/twitter-is-slowly-coming-back-to-africa/ , accessed May 2011 as [...]

By: Cameroon: Twitter ban stifles innovation and development · Global Voices

Cameroon: Twitter ban stifles innovation and development · Global Voices — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:26:14 +0000

[...] African observes, Twitter is working on expanding its relationship with African countries. In 2008 Twitter decided to shut down all operations in Africa: Over 2.5 years ago Twitter shut down all operations in Africa. Back then, in August of 2008, it [...]

By: Twitter is Slowly Coming Back to Africa | Neu Afrika

Twitter is Slowly Coming Back to Africa | Neu Afrika — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:27:40 +0000

[...] Africa Mar.11, 2011 in Kenya, Madagascar, Nation updates, Nigeria, Technology Over 2.5 years ago Twitter shut down all operations in Africa. Back then, in August of 2008, it really didn’t matter too much as the penetration rates for the [...]

By: Twitter making its way back to Africa | memeburn

Twitter making its way back to Africa | memeburn — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:03:59 +0000

[...] font-family: Arial !important; font-size: 11pt !important; }More than two and a half years ago Twitter shut down all operations in Africa. Back then, in August of 2008, it really didn’t matter too much as the penetration rates for the [...]

By: Twitter is Slowly Coming Back to Africa — WhiteAfrican

Twitter is Slowly Coming Back to Africa — WhiteAfrican — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:16:34 +0000

[...] 2.5 years ago Twitter shut down all operations in Africa. Back then, in August of 2008, it really didn’t matter too much as the penetration rates for [...]

By: Les média sociaux en Afrique — première partie | ReadWriteWeb France

Les média sociaux en Afrique — première partie | ReadWriteWeb France — Sun, 09 May 2010 21:02:35 +0000

[...] qui n’ont même pas accès à l’électricité courante. Preuve de la vivacité des usages, des protestations ont émergé de tout le continent quand Twitter a supprimé ses services de SMS à [...]

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.