Pretoria - While the world is glued to Twitter to follow proceedings in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius, the account set up to “provide the hard truth” has not tweeted even once from the Pretoria High Court.
A week before the trial, Pistorius’s public relations team created the @OscarHardTruth account to “provide the hard truth as it unfolds and provide information that will become clearer during the trial”.
However, despite the account having almost 33 000 followers, it will not be used to tweet court proceedings as they happen.
“We will not be using the Twitter handle while the court proceedings are under way because we don’t want to interfere with the legal process,” said Pistorius’s media manager, Anneliese Burgess.
The @OscarHardTruth handle was last used on Sunday.
The last tweet said the so-called Oscar Pistorius Official Facebook page was a fake.
Burgess said the account would be used to relay important information during the trial, but would not provide information about what happened in court.
The account has tweeted only 10 times since its launch on February 23.
Popular topics on the social media platform on Tuesday included Pistorius lawyer Barry Roux’s cross-examination of witness, Michelle Burger; Judge Thokozile Masipa’s warning to the media after eNCA and Beeld published a picture of Burger; and Burger’s tears while she was under cross-examination.
As on Monday, the court interpreter came under fire for not doing a good job.
More than seven of the 10 trends listed on Twitter were related to the Pistorius trial on Tuesday.