Nigeria with a population of 160million people, out of which 73 million were registered to vote as at the last general elections in 2011, also has a very vibrant social media community: with an estimated 43 million said to be online, Facebook has 4.3million, Twitter where they are the 3rd most active African nation on the network, with nothing less than 700, 000 users, 2.4 million Blackberry users logged into its Blackberry Messenger network, and very high numbers in the millions for other social networks such as 2go and Eskimi. This is not to mention the thousands of individual blogs and sites that aggregate articles by Nigerians......http://www.viewpointnigeria.com/opinion-mob/item/418-dear-social-media-user-the-nigerian-politician-doesn%E2%80%99t-care-about-you-by-mark-amaza