JOS TWITTER HANGOUT BROUHAHA

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I have been keenly following the Twitter Hangouts discussion on twitter and I can't help but be amazed at how much furor, bad blood, and sectionalization going on here. Twitter is supposed to be a connector and not a disconnector. Let's quit the verbal fisticuffs.

For the avoidance of doubt, let me quickly inform us that I am not a member of any of the Twitter Hangouts. I have never been invited by any of them and I can't beg to be invited. So I can count myself as an outsider looking in and trying to give an unbiased opinion.

While many here are shamelessly struggling to be administrators of WhatsApp groups or Twitter hangout groups, our mates (and even juniors) around the world are patenting their inventions, developing apps, discovering new mathematical formulas and smiling to the banks.

Where did my generation get it wrong? I think for so long we have become too accustomed to mediocrity and lack of self worth. Why should we have more than one Twitter Hangout in Jos if we intrinsically claim to be in the pursuit of oneness and unity?

Why do we always seek to divide and castigate and subjugate each other. Are we so desperate about leadership that we fail to see and/or preempt the horizon and its attendant undulations and topographic ullulations? What happened to unity, love, oneness, and being Jostified?

People all over the country are busy building their Twitter communities by following each other and retweeting and liking each other's tweets, but in Jos we read and pass like a snake that slithers over a rock without leaving any sign. It saddens me because we can do more.

We can do more than forming numerous Twitter Hangouts as if it's political parties. Twitter users are reputed to be highly cerebral. They are critical thinkers that proffer solutions and have fun too. Twitter is not a harbinger of fake news or lame jokes or disunity.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (@Jack) was in Lagos recently and no one here bothered to educate us on how he encouraged Nigerians to explore the business opportunities the microblogging site has to offer. We are rather haggling on who gets invited to a Twitter Hangout or not invited.

Methinks it is not proper to rubbish ourselves and wash our dirty linen in public. Twitter communities all over the country are thriving and making inroads. Following each other, encouraging each other and rallying round each other. #JosTwitter has the potential to be great.

Some may argue and say "the more the merrier", but of what use is many harvesters when the harvest is little. It makes sense to UNITE. For once, let's dull the lines of division and increase the bond of unity. 


David King
Jos Twitter user




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