Make sure your tweets don't end up as twacks-ups

16 Sep 2013

NEWSWATCH: Tweets can be great in promoting your business, but if you get it wrong... Mail & Guardian reports on the perils of tweeting. Meanwhile, EWN reports that ANN7 might have been flouting our visa laws in using staff from India to help launch the new channel. On the good news front, Zuma's call for 'patriotic' reporting has drawn a reaction in Mail & Guardian, and in Politicsweb, Andrew Donaldson gamely tries to make good on the president's call.

Jacob Zuma wants "positive news". (Image: GCIS)

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Mail & Guardian: Trick or tweet? Follow the leaders... Twitter is regarded as a useful medium to use to boost your business - but don't be a twit!
Used properly, Twitter can work well, so here are some tricks of the trade to make the most of it... without making a twacks-up.
EWN: EWN: First on EWN: ANN7 flouts visa laws... Oh dear, back in the news again - again for all the wrong reasons. It's alleged that the country's immigration laws have been, according to EWN "blatantly flouted".

And we thought it was bad when Joburg suddenly became the Mother City and Aussie cricketer Michelle (sorry, Michael) Clarke apparently had a gender job.
EWN quotes Home Affairs director general, Mkuseli Apleni, as confirming the status of a further three names and saying "Seven people have come in on a visitor's visa and with this type of visa employment is prohibited."
Mail & Guardian: The truth cannot be hidden, Mr President... Apparently the news is sometimes so dire some reports suggest our pres feels like leaving the country. Mail & Guardian quotes him as saying "When I am in South Africa, every morning you feel like you must leave this country because the reporting concentrates on the opposite of the positive." [I'm pretty positive that's "negative" - or am I just being positively negative?].
Apparently, in Mexico journalists "don't report on crime because it would reflect negatively on the country and scare off investors".
Come on, now... if our media stopped reporting on crime, corruption, corrupt officials, the minister's new shoes, bent cops, tender corruption, a provincial leader who seems to keep their local KFC (and other food outlets) going almost single-handedly, and what-have-you, the average newspaper would be quite a few pages shorter. And barely worth reading.
Quite apart from anything else, be one a potential investor or visitor, one would be seriously miffed - assuming one is still alive - had one not been warned about the crime situation and what areas to avoid, precautions one should take, and so on.
Politicsweb: Happy blacks, unhappy whites... However, we should thank Andrew Donaldson for giving it the old college try... He did try to look for "positive" news... really... but he got a little sidetracked.