Social Media Marketing Tips: How To Build A Strong Social Media Personality

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Building a strong social media personality whether for business or pleasure requires you to go an extra mile, than the average Jo, on social media; it requires you to take the right steps that will attract, the audience you are looking for, to your page and advocate for your brand in time. In this video, […]

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Twitter Appoints Ngozi Iweala To Board Of Directors Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, has achieved a record-breaking success by becoming the first Nigerian to be appointed to Twitter’s Board of Directors. She was appointed alongside Robert Zoellick, the 11th President of the World Bank. The Chief Executive Director of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, […]

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Appointed Member of Twitter Inc. Board Of Directors

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Nigeria’s two-time former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been appointed as one of two latest addition to the Board of Directors at Twitter Inc. The brilliant economist joins the board alongside American lawyer and 11th President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, as an independent Board Director. The announcement was made official on Thursday […]

Social Media Marketing Tips: The Right Social Media Platforms For Your Business

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Knowing the right social media platform for your business can be a tricky situation especially when there are a lot of social media platforms available. While you want to utilize the best functional platforms for your business, you don’t want to muddle things up and lose focus. It’s okay to have a strong presence online, […]

ITTF Nigeria Open To Go Live On Twitter

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The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) and Twitter have struck a deal for the 2018 ITTF Nigeria Open to be live-streamed on twitter. Twitter and the ITTF for Wednesday, finalized the details of the deal which involved the live-streaming of of the ITTF’s 2018 Challenge Series events. This agreement came as a result of the […]

Four Lessons From the Snapchat vs Kylie Jenner Billion Dollar Tweet Fallout

We’ve just witnessed one of the highlights of the year in global business, and it’s an unusual (if costly) sort of event: a TV entertainment celebrity’s nineteen-word tweet wiped $1 billion off a global company’s market value. Snap Inc, the parent company of the social networking site Snapchat, took quite a battering at the US […]

Twitter Officially Brings ‘Thread’ Feature To Users

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For anyone who is familiar with Twitter, you’d have noticed some tweets with the ‘thread’ tag, which is kind of like a smart hack, Twitter users developed for telling lengthy stories, so it appears in a sequential order. Well, Twitter finally acknowledged the trend and decided to make it a part of the app, so […]

Twitter Doubles Tweet Count from 140 to 280 Characters

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The fun of Twitter has always been the cleverness of expressing yourself with just 140 characters. It’s always amazing when you look at how creative Twitter users have been over the years; how they’ve taught themselves to think only within 140 characters. We can probably trace the proliferation of shorthand texts (LOL, TTYL, IMO, TBH, […]

Twitter Handles of Nigerian Banks

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Do you want to complain about your bank account issues without having to spend so much air time waiting for the phone operator to hook you up to Customer Care?  Then why not tweet at your bank? Most financial institutions now use their social media platforms as an avenue to serve their customers better, especially with […]

Twitter Partners with Live Nation to Stream Live Videos

At the NewFront conference in New York, Twitter announced it partnering with Live Nation to live stream videos of concerts. Twitter believed that 7 out of 10 of the most followed users are musicians while Grammy Awards live pre-show is rated the most view on Twitter till date. This announcement adds up to Twitter’s new […]

Live Video Broadcast Comes to Twitter

Live streaming has made the rounds on social networking platforms like Instagram and Facebook and has gained much traction with users. Twitter has just recently made the feature available on their mobile platform. Previously, Live video broadcasts were peculiar to the Twitter-owned Periscope app, but what Twitter has now integrated Periscope’s live video feature right into […]

Another Company Backs Out from Purchasing Twitter

Last week, it seemed as though the Twitter sale dilemma will be solved finally. This conclusion we almost came at, considering Salesforce’s reaction on purchasing the microblogging platform. Well, some hours ago Salesforce also backed away from the Twitter acquisition. Speaking to Financial Times in an interview, CEO Marc Benioff cleared all arguments surrounding his company purchasing […]

Twitter Might Be Sold Anytime From Now

It is possible that you don’t own a Twitter account and even if you do, you don’t tweet often. With more and more inactive users like yourself, you can be sure Twitter does not earn a lot. So now the company is up for sale and it is anxiously seeking buyers. Recently Google and Disney […]

Facebook and Twitter Partner With First Draft Network to Tackle Fake News

The spate of fake news online has become alarming, especially with the speed of its reach, and there is seemingly no way of ensuring the authenticity of information that is posted online, yet. To tackle this problem First Draft Coalition was formed with the backing of Google. First Draft Coalition is a network of over […]

Twitter To Increase Tweet Character Limit by 19th September

According to a report from TheVerge, the mega microblogging site, Twitter, is making changes to the 140-character limit on tweets. By September 19th, the company will redefine the kind of content that count as part of the platform’s 140-character limit. And as such, content like Media attachments (images, GIFs, videos, polls, etc.) and quoted tweets […]