by Russell Southwood (@BalancingActAfr) Nigerian tech blogger Jesse Oguntimehin (@JesseOguns) talks about how Twitter came to grow so big in Nigeria and recent trends within it.
The interview covers:
- the incident that sparked the growth of Twitter;
- its impact on news media;
- the Basketmouth rape joke controversy;
- the enormous size of the 2Go community and
- private social messaging; and what happens next to social media in Nigeria.
Russell Southwood is the founder of Balancing Act and the web TV channel Smart Monkey TV, and has been an analyst in telecoms, internet and broadcast in Africa for the last 14 years. Smart Monkey TV aims to capture the energy at the crossroads between African culture and technology. MarkLives is syndicating content from Smart Monkey TV on a weekly basis for the column “Smart Africa TV”.
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