What topic sparked the most interest online this year? It wasn’t the US elections or their candidates Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton. Forget the drama-filled Euro 2016 that saw England faced out by Ireland and the Pokemon Go phenomenon.
Twitter lets you say more with the same charcter limit
Twitter Inc. is making a major shift in how it counts characters in Tweets, giving users more freedom to compose longer messages. It’s expanding the number of things you can post in a 140-character tweet, without expanding the number of characters.
It plans to do so within the next few months, usernames, quoted tweets, photos, and other media attachments will no longer count against the tweet’s 140-character limit.
Over the weekend you might have seen the hashtag #NMGUnderSiege and just for a moment feared that terror was looming again in Kenya. You quickly try and switch on the TV to see if the case is being shown on your favorite station. Some of you might even have tuned in to the station under siege. Yes, that’s right. Station. But you can’t find the news anywhere on your local TV station.
Well in actuality the siege was happening at the media power house that is Nation Media Group (NMG). Don’t get me wrong, No armed gunmen or terrorists ran into the Nation Center, neither was there a suicidal maniac taking people hostage, this battle was on a front much more ethical than physical. It was a fight against copyright infringement.
Controversial Journalist Njoki Chege was on the forefront of a Plagiarism Case with an article she had posted on the Saturday Nation of July 16, 2016. The article attached below is claimed to have originally been posted by Sylvia Anne Hewlett an editor for the Harvard Business Review in her article ”The Real Benefit of Having a sponsor”