by Chi Ibe

So Aliko Dangote, chairman of the Dangote Group and Africa’s richest man joined Twitter today – and all hell broke into tweets!

Of course, we were on the look-out for the (first) top 10.

STOP THE WORLD! Aliko Dangote joins Twitter… guest the first 3 people he followed

Because he wrote the year’s wrap-up profile of the man, we let Tolu Ogunlesi go first:

Welcoming my friend and brother (and Africa’s richest man) @AlikoDangote to Twitter. No tweets yet & he already verified.

— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) December 31, 2013

Y!/YNAIJA.COM PERSON OF THE YEAR NOMINEE: Tolu Ogunlesi profiles Aliko Dangote

And second:

@DoubleEph Lesser men tweet ‘1324 1255 5435 1233 MTN’. Aliko will tweet ‘0001342455 GTB’ #FindersKeepers

— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) December 31, 2013

Like terms attract:

Aliko following Jack Welch, Jeff Immelt & Bill Gates. These rich people are so incestous. Urgh. Follow a poor man bro and reduce inequality

— F (@DoubleEph) December 31, 2013

The hustle, of course, begins:

Of course RT @aninoritse: So if I click follow, Dangote will give me bags of rice and dollar account??? Pls confirm.

— Marie (@Moby_Gold) December 31, 2013

And continues:

@AlikoDangote Sir I eat your cement and your noodles is strong for building house. You are just wonderful sir.

— Excalibur (@Punthief) December 31, 2013

And continues:

I love Dangote cement, very strong! I just bought two bags today to mould 1,000 blocks! *now eating Dangote Indomie* pic.twitter.com/JGV1U4P46q

— Lord of the Gourds (@ikhide) December 31, 2013

Try every angle:

#TwitpicYourDangoteSpaghetti

— Adadioramma (@Miss_Haybee) December 31, 2013

But, may your hustle be guided:

All you girls that will attempt to throw panties via DM to @AlikoDangote, I hope you know he isn’t the one tweeting. Be guided.

— Che! (@CheRox) December 31, 2013

One of many who think YNaija might have clicked ‘Publish’ too soon:

The year hadn’t even ended and #Ynaija rushed to make a list of most influential twitter handles for 2013. Now look who dey missed!

— Atom Lim (@AtomLim) December 31, 2013

And, finally, someone can’t take it anymore:

Chineka nna. Can you people let this Dangote breathe on Twitter? What’s all this?

— Bolouere Opukiri (@boluxxxx) December 31, 2013

It’s official: Dangote has finally conquered the entire world.