Dapo Adebanjo looking good in his tuxedo outfit
Award winning and multi talented singer, Dapo Oyebanji popularly known as “Koko Master”, or D’Banj @iamdbanj recently
joined the league of Twitteratis with Highest numbers of followers in
Nigeria. He had about 1,021,631 followers to his credit.
The Nigerian award-winning singer, Ayo Balogun, a.k.a Wiz Kid @wizkidayo was
the first Nigerian artiste to reach one million followers on popular
social networking site, Twitter. He is however, followed by Davido @iam_Davido and Don Jazzy@DONJAZZY, all in the entertainment sector. Others with high number of followers are 2face @2faceidibia , Genevieve @GenevieveNnaji1,Peter Okoye @PeterPsquare, Basketmouth @basket_mouth, amongst others.
Going
down the memory lane, one could envisage that Twitter hasn’t done badly
within the year 2014. Various countries of the world have ways in which
2014 played out in Tweets- the biggest Tweets, the standout moments, who joined, and what trended.
To
mark the end of the year, Twitter conducted a research about the
Twitter moments in the world, and came up with an annual ‘Year on
Twitter’ package.
In
the same vein, Katy Perry has emerged the most followed person for
2014. It was the year that Twitter’s most-followed star Katy Perry https://twitter.com/katyperry hit the 61 million follower mark. She is closely followed in second place by Justin Bieber on 57 million, and Barack Obama,
who, with 50 million followers, is the third most-followed person in
the world, and the most-followed political or world leader on the
platform
Talking
about how much people posted selfies on Twitter, Ellen’s Oscars selfie
has been retweeted more than three million times on Twitter, making it
the most shared message ever on the platform. In fact, since January 1,
the term ‘selfie’ has been mentioned more than 92 million times on
Twitter - a 500% increase and 12x more than in 2013 - as people from all
walks of life have come to Twitter to share their photos with followers
around the world. Other memorable selfies included: Lukas Podolski’s
selfies taken as the German team celebrated their World Cup victory ,
Princes Harry and William sent their first ever selfie as they
celebrated the launch of the Queens Young Leaders awards at Buckingham
Palace, Andy Murray and Djokvic’s seflie at Madison Square Gardens.
Similarly, In Nigeria, MTN Nigeria encouraged people to upload their Surprise face selfie to instagram & twitter with the "NUMBER 11" #MTNSurprisefaceselfie #YelloEleven
In the United Kingdom(UK), 2014 was
the year in which England crashed out of the World Cup, the Queen sent
her first ever Tweet, Scotland debated independence, and @Philae2014 Tweeted live from space as it landed on the Rosetta Comet.
Likewise
in Nigeria, 2014 was the year that the Chibok girls got kidnapped and
#BringBackOurGirls became trended on Twitter, also Ebola disease shocked
Nigerians and @EbolaAlert became trendy, Nigerians also tweeted during
the World Cup, amongst others.
Sport
also took a dominant spot in 2014. Worldwide, a record 672 million
Tweets were sent about this year’s World Cup finals in Brazil. In a
World Cup year it is perhaps no surprise that the UK’s top ten
most-Tweeted-about moments were sport-related. The 7-1 sweep of mighty
Brazil by Germany, not only set a soccer record, it was also a record on
Twitter, as the match generated the highest number of Tweets in soccer
history. Soccer star Victor Moses @VictorMoses has the highest Twitter followers in the sports category.
It was observed that worldwide, a record 672 million Tweets were sent about this year’s World Cup finals in Brazil. In
a World Cup year it is perhaps no surprise that the UK’s top ten
most-Tweeted-about moments were sport-related. Joining the World Cup and
the Champions League were two other major UK events - the BRIT Awards,
in which One Direction won the Twitter vote for the best album, and January 1, as Twitter users ushered in the New Year. In the case of Nigeria, sports fans tweeted severally as regards the World cup
In
Nigeria, the early exit of Nigeria in the World Cup was a
disappointment for many soccer fans especially after Nigeria won the
African Cup of Nations in 2013. The exit of Nigeria in the next edition
of the Nation's Cup generated a lot of conversions on Twitter by both
fans and leading media houses. Channels Television, https://mobile.twitter.com/
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