Oscar Pistorius and his online presence

Poor Oscar, ever since he shot and killed girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. he's not been able to hide from the media. That's one thing South Africa's media is very good at - getting as much of a story out as they can, digging up what they can and quite simply, not stopping till the truth is out and the story becomes boring.
Unfortunately for Pistorius, with his status, the media frenzy is not going to end for a while.

Within days of the shooting, Pistorius and his team appointed UK Spin doctor Stuart Higgins, changed Pistorius's official website and supposedly deleted tweets from his Twitter feed. I don't know about you but that's already something fishy that the court can pick up.

Having a look further, I found that Pistorius has trended not only on Twitter but throughout the Internet, worldwide. It was found that online searches for information on Pistorius overtook the amount of searches relating to information on Lance Armstrong during his doping scandal as well as that of Tiger Woods when his infidelity broke out.

I do find it amusing though that all three of these athletes are (or were) sponsored by Nike.

"Just do it" - or not.


Another unfortunate image that was posted of Pistorius was the one of him running with the slogan: "I am the bullet in the chamber". Whilst it has been removed, you can't help but get a slight tingle in your body asking yourself, "what are the chances?" and it's kind of creepy too.

The website it seems is where the Pistorius camp can now convey their messages and their side of the story. However, the case will not only be restricted to that website with constant news being fed via newspapers, radio broadcasts and social media platforms.

One thing is for certain, during the bail hearing of Oscar Pistorius, everyone became a lawyer on Twitter. While we wait for the trial to begin in June, people are able to sum up their facts and prepare their case.