Social networking has
been a big deal in the world in recent times. Nigeria is not exception
to this major impact. The social network twitter looks like one that is
here to stay, unlike its rival facebook whose buzz has been steady
dwindling in recent times. People say if you want the highest number of
publicity and awareness on anything; be it a new song, party, concert,
campaign, store, brand etc. You must definitely rely on twitter to
create that buzz.
Now here’s the catch,
twitter trends are set and arranged based on location. Major Trending
locations that exist Include; Nigeria as a nation and Lagos, while more
locations are soon to be added.
Covenant University,
which according to its recent award is said to be the most ICT driven
University in the Country. Well this is a school I hear people use the
internet to order foods from the school’s cafeteria to their rooms. The
students in Covenant University claim to be the “backbone of Twitter in
Nigeria”. Take for example a Saturday where the students in the
university had a general paper called TMC. The buzz surrounding this
exam was so intense that it created a trend on twitter. This Trending
topic “TMC” was way above trends like; Davido, EME, WizKid etc. So the
thing people still ponder on is; how a school so small have so much
impact on twitter.
That’s not all, another
trend started over the weekend about the most frequently asked questions
by students in the university which had the hashtag
#MostAskedCUquestions. This period being a vacation for the students of
the school was almost like twitter was about to be shut down because of
this so called random question being asked for amusement. The trend
#MostAskedCUquestions was trending in Nigeria and Lagos. This was way
above LASU, Run My Race, Burna Boy which were the leading Trends in the
Nation.
An anonymous source says
a certain student from the school had too much buzz that he himself
started trending in Lagos because he was tweeting about #AGBALUMO all
day.
The
question now being asked is; how is it possible that a school with
merely 7000 students has so much impact on twitter in a country with
about five million active users? However they do it all we can say is
Nigerians are amazed.#vptv #repcu
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