{"id":2573,"date":"2013-06-23T15:25:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T13:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2013-06-23T15:34:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T13:34:32","slug":"malawi-on-twitter-version-june-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/malawi-on-twitter-version-june-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi on Twitter &#8211; Version June 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Twitter lists are its most powerful and least-used feature.<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialmediaexaminer.com\/twitter-for-business\/\">Source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I am fully aware, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonworth.eu\/why-you-should-use-twitter-lists\/\">Twitter lists<\/a> have lost significance in the past years, I still <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nchenga\/malawi-twitters\">maintain a list on Malawi<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nchenga\/malawi-twitters\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chiperoni\/9116424886\/\" title=\"malawi-twitters by nchenga, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3690\/9116424886_4094942e7d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" alt=\"malawi-twitters\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the early days of Twitter, Malawian content has increased many fold.<\/p>\n<p>Social media content about Malawi during general election time, or about President Mutharika&#8217;s death, proved to be fairly accurate. <\/p>\n<p>Obviously, a tweet on its own is just raw material. It needs further analysing and fact-checking. <\/p>\n<p>Why Twitter? There is still lots of misunderstanding and one-sided reporting regarding African countries. Largely due to ignorance and the way mainstream media continue to report about the African continent.<\/p>\n<p>Best way to change this perception? Well, one way is to tweet and share your views and opinions. Some ideas: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Share your technical innovations and solutions.<\/li>\n<li>Tweet about your business idea and find partners for business and trade opportunities.<\/li>\n<li>Build networks and become a trusted citizen journalist.<\/li>\n<li>Show the positive and beautiful aspects of the country.<\/li>\n<li>Write about societal and linguistic changes.<\/li>\n<li>Write about mobile technology and its daily usage and fast adoption in Malawi.<\/li>\n<li>Provide a realistic view of the challenges a small country like Malawi faces in a globalized world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tweet streams included in the list encompass:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Malawians living in Malawi \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>Expats living in Malawi<\/li>\n<li>Malawians living abroad<\/li>\n<li>Organizations based in Malawi (e.g. business companies, media companies, governmental channels, charities and NGOs)<\/li>\n<li>Organization outside of Malawi, but in some way connected to Malawi (usually charities or NGOs)<\/li>\n<li>Journalists or academics writing about Malawi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In my humble opinion, Paper.li is a great way to visualize articles. E.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/paper.li\/bvutoB\/1324201034\">Malawi Tribune by Mabvuto Banda<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Other Twitter lists on Malawi:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dadakim\/malawi\">Malawi on Twitter<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiningInMalawi\/mining-in-malawi\">Mining in Malawi<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter lists are its most powerful and least-used feature. (Source) While I am fully aware, that Twitter lists have lost significance in the past years, I still maintain a list on Malawi. Since the early days of Twitter, Malawian content has increased many fold. Social media content about Malawi during general election time, or about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malawian","category-tweet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LJxC-Fv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}