By Political Animal.
Jack (Twitter owner), suspended most of our favorite Nigerian influencers.
Unknowingly to those influencers, Alex Saab they were fighting for on Twitter,is the villain of the story.
It is not every job you must take, not every hashtag you must trend. Sometimes ask questions.A little research would save you from suspension.
These influencers were twitting about this criminal,that Cape Verde should free him.
Ignorance made them not to research on what he did and why he was arrested.
This is a criminal wanted in the US for fraud and they were campaigning that he should be freed on Twitter after some payment.
Twitter had to suspend the accounts promoting the hashtag.
When Nigeria influencers begin to campaign for dubious characters who are positioning themselves for 2023, promoting and projecting them as potential candidates for the presidency,the greed of such influencers is no different from the greedy and dubious politicians themselves.
This is how they have been feeding the nation with such messages and cooked images of terrible candidates, with lots of baggages and cobwebs in their cupboards, that we can hardly get the right candidates in any election.
Many of their personalities are polished ,baked and cooked on Twitter, and served to Nigerians as delicious after pocketing lump sum.
Atimes I am tempted to say that some Nigerian youths especially those on Twitter would do worse than these politicians if given the opportunity.
Thank God it is not all.
They haven’t been given the power,
but they are expressing oppressive tendencies on Twitter.
Many of them have an already compromised mentality,that is why even to promote ordinary screams mean money to them.
Rich politicians are cashing and capitalizing on such Twitter advantages not known to the ordinary Nigerians on the streets to always be ahead of others.
The number of greedy youths on Twitter in this business outweigh the patriotic ones.
Social media has made everything worse,that you have to “fake it till you make it”.
The pressure to be successful or look successful is so much that they can hardly resist the temptation ,
even if they are paid to promote an armed robber for the presidency of Nigeria come 2023.
I sympathize with those suspended by Jack.I know that it is of a huge financial loss for them .
Some are basically living well daily on Twitter.Therefore,taking their livelihood away after they had gotten to that level on Twitter to earn huge income as influencers can be really challenging in the times we live.
Especially those that have put almost all their energy on this app.
But for those influencers who didn’t fall into the trap of suspension , please save us from creating and influencing Nigerians to back any terrible candidate in 2023.
We have had enough.
Inasmuch as my activities on Twitter may not warrant suspension as it is totally , specially specifically focused on health matters and other relevant issues,
I sympathize with them.
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