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thebosstrevor1:
Major news network are carrying it...many of these accounts have reputation....and most of their post are promoted for engagement.

As i have written before no organic post on twitter trends

Nickshrapnel:
And still I don’t agree with you. Why can’t you see it from my POV? See now, Omojuwa and his company are trending right now, why, because a lot of people are tweeting about him. Not because he paid for it.

9jaRealist:


Nothing surprises me...
Brown envelope ‘journalism’ has always been rife in Nigeria.

Nonetheless, this campaign does NOT bother me as much...
The US (and Twitter) wouldn’t bother if this was a campaign they want.

That HYPOCRISY is glaring, because this is NOT about ethics...
If it’s (for example) an Anti-Chinese govt campaign, it would’ve been ok with the US (and Twitter).
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naptu2:
This is a very interesting update to this story


Oby Ezekwesili Asks Omujuwa And CAC To Explain Why She Was Listed As A Director
https://www.nairaland.com/6499248/oby-ezekwesili-asks-omujuwa-cac#100642757

thebosstrevor1:
It is simple.

Every social cause promoted on social media is paid for. No protest or social media campaign is organic, as long as you have money to pay influencers, you can personally destroy or support a target.

This leds me to the #endsar campaign, all the influencers were paid to destroy Nigeria by some ngos and foreigners, these same influencers were happy destroying the country they live in.

Nigerians can sell their soul for little cash.

thebosstrevor1:
I have given you lot of examples.

Let me give you another example using the case of some of the events in the the world and also Nigeria.

Lets take punch newspaper Twitter page, every goal of a newspaper on social media is engagement, engagement is everything.

For instance if punch has 1 million followers on twitter, when punch post a breaking news article about the death of someone like adedovah, prince Philips etc or fireoutbreak, about 1500 active users out of their 1 million followers will like the post and share it out of the 1500, only 15 might comment on it, that is because not everyone can be on twitter at the same time.

For punch to reach a bigger Audience, they will promote the news through ads, with the promotion, it will reach lot of users and lot of engagement like clicks, share comments will take place.

At end of the campaign, they would have reached almost 5 million people according to their budget and have almost a 100 million impressions.

Now, imagine if 16 newspapers in Nigeria do that at the same time when they break the news, dont you think it will catch momentum and increase spike and trend on trend page??

That is how breaking news topic get to number 1....that is for media companies talkless of influencers when they are paid to tweet aggressively.

Use the example above for prince Philip, now imagine cnn, bbc and major news networks breaking the news of his death and promote their articles through ad on twitter, dont you think it will create momentum for people all over the world to discuss about his death? In that way it trends.

Nothing is free on Twitter.

naptu2:
Hahahahahahaha


This is hilarious! Your attempt to shift the goalpost and wiggle your way out is very funny.

Prince Philip is known by millions even billions around the world. The announcement of his death would lead to tweets by millions. No newspaper does Twitter adverts over the death of Prince Philip and no one is paid to tweet about his death.

Your claim is that influencers are paid to make certain tweets (they do giveaways) and that's the only that things trend. That did not happen in this case. People were not paid to tweet Prince Philip's death. It trended because it is a global event. It's just like how Donald Trump will tweet something and it'll trend in minutes before the traditional media can get to it. That's because he is a global figure.

There's no shame in admitting that you are wrong

thebosstrevor1:
So who is announced his death?

If not bbc, af and other major news media on social media who then

How then did it spread? Promotion on social media.

naptu2:
1) Do you know that the Royal Family and in fact Prince Philip have Twitter accounts (shocking isn't it) ?


2) News channels also announced his death, but they did not pay people to tweet and retweet it, neither did they do giveaways.

Now to your attempt to twist this. No news channel paid to trend Prince Philip's death. A news channel can be popular outside Twitter (do you think it's Twitter that made people know NTA, BBC, CNN?) and have lots of followers, even millions and when they tweet about Prince Philip's death people will retweet it. That does not mean that they paid to trend Prince Philip's death!

This is simple common sense.

There are things that are popular, affect a lot of people and are talked about of Twitter. These things will trend on Twitter without anyone paying for it

thebosstrevor1:
Dude where did i write that they news media pay people to retweets.

I wrote newmedia do promotion through twitter ads.

How many people know prince philip? Even if he has a Twitter account, do you think he has time to be tweeting.

The bbc is the voice of the royal family and the British empire.

The bbc is a major network, they have a twitter page, once they get the info if his death, it becomes breaking news, also they post the news on their social media page and promote them through twitter ads and through that it gain momentum.

In respect to influencers, they are mostly used by brands, charity organizations or influential people to spread an agenda through social media.

Do you even know bbc social media budget every year.

Nothing is free.


Just because you have 25million followers on Twitter does not means everyone will see your tweets, even Donald Trump and kim Kardashian promote their tweets to reach a more bigger audience

naptu2:



"How many people know Prince Philip"??


You said that the BBC do Twitter promotions and I told you that the BBC is far more popular off Twitter and now you are asking me questions.

I take it that you just want to have the last word because you are now contradicting yourself and making statements that don't make sense.


The BBC has been very popular for generations and people seek out the BBC when they join Twitter. It's not any Twitter promotion that made people know of the BBC. These people that seek out the BBC get the news on BBC tweets not through any promotion. I'm an example. I've been listening to the BBC since the early 1980s and I sought out their accounts. I have never gotten any BBC news on Twitter through any promotions.


You know you are wrong, you are now making things up and saying "How many people know Prince Philip", a man that was the spouse of the head of the biggest empire in the world, one of the most photographed and talked about people in the world.

I'm ending this discussion here because it no longer makes sense. It looks like a conest for who would have the last say and I'm not interested in that.

Goodbye.

I won't read your reply

Vaughanlanrewaj:
You have been counselled.
Trust me you will come to understand since it seems you like to get yourself misunderstood that even Seun and some other young folks who think you are a cyber bully had to get in direct face off with you.

https://www.nairaland.com/6372757/moderators-seun-please-take-note

Good evening sir.

naptu2:
I guess some people will say that these world leaders were paid to make these statements or that they only knew Prince Philip because of Twitter promotions.