The Thread: “Latent haters. Forming inactive volcanoes” | Omojuwa and Bisi Alimi go head to head on Twitter

Entrepreneur and social media influencer, Japheth Omojuwa has been part of the crew leading the charge to #EndSARS on Twitter but that initiative almost got hijacked after he tweeted this: Netizens got very upset with Mr Omojuwa’s insinuation that they were posting “fabricated stories” and reacted in the heat of the moment. @ProfOsinbajo asking @Omojuwa... Read More

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Bisi Alimi, omojuwa, The Thread, Twitter fights

April 28, 2017

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The Thread: Should we be worried? @officialEFCC has started harassing citizens

Everybody who knows Reno Omokri knows he is a proud critic of PMB’s administration. He was President Jonathan’s social media manager. And even though GEJ is no longer in office, Reno Omokri continues to act as his voltron. Unfortunately, President Buhari’s government has made it all too easy for Reno to slam criticism after criticism.... Read More

Opinion

@cremechic11, citizenship engagement, imoh umoren, OfficialEFCC, Reno Omokri, The Thread, Twitter fights

February 7, 2017

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The Thread: Why saying “I told you so” about people’s electoral choices is stupid

One of the fallouts of 2Baba’s call for a national protest was it drove a conversation on social media about people’s electoral choices. Blame was flung in different directions: at those who ran the PR campaign for the current president, at the ones who were ‘gullible enough’ to believe the PR ‘whitewashing’, at those who... Read More

Opinion

bUHARI PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, Electoral choices, Ezekwesili, nigeria, The Thread, Twitter fights, Voting

January 12, 2017

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The Thread: Might Mr Eazi have a point, though?

Music, generally, is fluid and dynamic and borrows from different cultures and places. This was the place Mr Eazi was coming from when he tweeted that “Ghana’s influence on present day “Naija Sound” cannot be over emphasized!!!” Of course there were dissenting voices to that opinion, but there were also those who agreed with Mr... Read More

Opinion

azonto, Ghanaian music, Mr Eazy, Nigerian Music, Twitter fights, Wizkids

January 10, 2017

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The Thread: The tweet fight between two top porn sites that everybody missed

Sundays are lazy days- for doing church, sleeping in, binge watching movies and everything generally relaxing. What Sundays are definitely not for is fighting, but for Porn hub and XVideos, it was a perfect day to get into it once and for all over content issues. Do see below: https://twitter.com/xvideoscom/status/801794045626511361 Reactions https://twitter.com/DaIaiGoat/status/818216389714604032 To see @xvideoscom... Read More

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content, nigeria, Twitter fights, Xvideos

December 14, 2015

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#YNaija2015Review: Wizkid vs Skales, Sugabelly vs everyone… See the hottest Twitter fights of 2015

Twitter fights are so 2010 we hear you say. But if they are so out of fashion like we tell ourselves, how come barely a day passes without some level of back and forth erupting on those mean streets. Some are nipped at the bud the moment they begin to show, others explode into full... Read More

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Skales, Sugabelly, Twitter fights, wizkid